The Asian Film Thread

Originally Posted by Syndrome

I'm gonna watch something called A Tale of Two Sisters soon, same director as in A Bittersweet Life (Ji-Woon Kim). I heard it's a very scary psychological horror, just my taste :)
Any comments on it?

I watched this movie the other week, and I whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone who's a fan of psychological horror. If you don't mind not knowing what the hell is going on until the very end of the movie, you'll probably like it. ;) It contains some of the old stand-bys of Asian horror (chicks with long dark hair, etc), but it focusses more on the relationship between the characters (mainly the sisters and their stepmother) than on cheap scares. Though there's a few of those too, and pretty good ones at that. There's one I saw coming a mile away, but it still managed to make me jump when it finally happened.

I've been watching random Asian horror lately, though I haven't seen very many yet. Watched The Eye the other night, which was actually really, really good. Very Sixth Sense-ish, if a bit more depressing at the end.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Syndrome

I read a review on it some time ago, where the guy who wrote it said he was about to give the movie a 4/10 or something, but then he read a little about the movie and lastly saw it one more time. He then understood the movie fully, and gave it a 10/10
In other words, I guess I have to have my eyes open during the movie.

Oh, absolutely. Unless you're particularly keen, you're probably not going to know exactly what's happening until the very end, and it can get frustrating at times if you're one of those people who's prone having "What the fuck is going on?!" moments when watching movies. But the plot's actually not OVERLY complicated. Just obscure, and it saves most of the revelations until the very end. Though personally, I liked it just fine the first time around. Even when things get confusing, the relationship and emotion between the characters is still strong enough to carry the movie.

When you finish the movie the first time, go online and read up on it so you can finish piecing all the particularly weird bits of the story together. Then watch it a second time. With the initial viewing plus doing the reading online, it will make much more sense the second time around.

There's nowhere I can't reach.