Forget America, unless you are addicted to comic book movies or remakes. That's the gift the South Koreans have given us with their wonderful and inventive cinema. After watching 'Memories of Murder', 'The Wailing', or 'The Host', you imagine that the characters are still doing what they were doing when the credits played. These characters live and breathe on the screen. The additional layers to every scene and every character add a panoramic realism to what unfolds. Scenes unfold in comedy and then tragedy, or the other way around - or both at once.
None of the responses to anything on-screen are simple, either. None of the characters are typical heroes or typical villains. Nothing on screen is as simple as it appears. But above all, they have nuance in spades. Will Emily and her sorority sisters escape the house with their lives Or is this death-sloth too quick for them PG-13 Comedy, Drama Movie (2023).
These films are always very well made, with interesting plots and characterisation. The more South Korean films I see, the more I understand how it came to pass that filmmakers from that part of Asia are basically leading the world in terms of cinema in the 21st century.
