haidarkanaan

Was it necessary? For real?

I liked the film. The message is beautiful, and the acting is excellent, especially from the children. However, there are many criticisms.

What is the fate or feeling of the children who performed these scenes? I know this is just acting, but a child remains a child. How will a child process what happened and then perform and act it out?

Were those horrifying, terrifying, disgusting scenes that evoked the worst feelings necessary? Couldn't the director have conveyed the idea without committing such sick acts?

On the outside, it might seem like an awareness message, a warning message, or an exposure of unethical practices... but on the other hand, I believe that those who worked on the project are psychologically ill and perhaps satisfied, even if only a small part, of their savagery through those offensive and abusive scenes.

From a logical perspective: How was he able to take the children from school to the human rights center?

How was he able to continue taking them there?

And how was he able to care for them?

On another note, why was the connection made between the guilty and Christians? Why is the message always that the bad one is the Christian? And that the most religious people are the wrongdoers? And why was a religious minority in Korea attacked? Isn't that racial discrimination?

The film only succeeded in distorting my image of Korea, portraying it as a corrupt country.. The monk, the principal, the teacher, the policeman, the prosecutor, and the judge are all just corrupt criminals and beasts with no humanity. This is a very bleak image of a country that is supposed to be among the most developed in the world.

The film's premise is clever, its execution daring. The plot is tightly woven, with layered, complex intersections on par with a finely crafted crime thriller or action flick.

The multi-perspective, non-linear storytelling works brilliantly, though it occasionally loses the viewer in the shuffle.

If only for Monica Bellucci, this film deserves a 10/10. Every detail about her is mesmerizing her eyes, her nose, her smile, her tears a natural, pre-plastic-surgery beauty untouched by time.

But the ending? A total misfire. It's abrupt, confusing, and oddly rushed as if the filmmakers hit a hard deadline and cobbled together whatever half-baked resolution they could. Such a shame for a film this ambitious to trip at the finish line. Bellucci's glow deserved better."

I might be a fan of old cliché endings , with the knight find his true love and then live happily ever after.