i love how often this movie really rubs it in your face how many chances Lee Byung-Hun's character had to stop his psycho shit and prevent more innocent people from getting hurt, and how his obsession with revenge gradually turns him into a monster. that last shot makes me feel so hollow and sad every time
He's the Frontman in "Squid Game", the Terminator in "Terminator:Genysis", Storm Shadow in "GI Joe" and Ethan Hawke's Bestie in "Magnificent Seven" (Remake)
You absolutely HAVE to watch JSA: Joint Security Area. Same director as Oldboy and starring Song Kang-ho (Parasite, Snowpiecer) and a young Lee Byung-hun (I Saw The Devil, Squid Game). It's 2000, so one of Park Chan-wooks earlier movies but IMO is one of the greatest movies of all time (I always say Shawshank, JSA and Oldboy). If Foreign movies were on the academy's radar at this time like when Parasite won, JSA would have absolutely won Best Picture. I genuinely have no doubts about that. Whether a movie or a book, it is one of the best pieces of story telling ever done. The first time I watched JSA was during a Korean history class at university, when it ended everyone was either too stunned too react or too busy crying and when the credits rolled and it said "director: Park Chan-wook" we were all like "oooooh that makes sense". It's set in the time it's filmed (2000), about some young South Korean soldiers doing their military service who are somehow involved with the deaths of some North Korean soldiers in the opposite guard post and the movie unfolds as flashbacks into what truly happened. An absolute must watch. And go in blind apart from what I've said, trust me. I've seen so many spoilers from a simple google search of the movie. I actually wrote an essay in university about how South Korean revenge movies often have the line between good and evil very blurred due to their war with the North and how they don't see them as an enemy; like I Saw The Devil, Oldboy, Taekgukgi, 71 Into the Fire etc. I used JSA as my main example in how they always make you sympathise with the "evil" and there's even the line "what's so wrong with people of the same blood hanging out?". In I Saw The Devil, our hero becomes cruel, who is the devil? In Oldboy, you feel sorry for the antagonist and our protagonist is a drunk absent father. In Taegukgi, he thinks his brother is killed by the South and so sees the North as the good people, In 71 Into the Fire, the North Korean Commander spares them and offers them mercy. if I'd written this essay now then I would have included Parasite: who is the parasite? Is it the rich family living off the cheap service of the poor? Or is it the poor family cheating their way into the rich family? JSA: Joint Security Area has very similar themes of feeling sympathetic towards "the enemy". You should also watch Forgotten (2017). Another movie you should go in totally blind. HIGHLY recommend.
I'm wondering if the camera could be facing frontally while you react?? Just curious since you have to turn your head to talk to the camera / your audience and also viewers don't really get to see the full expressions on your face while you're reacting...btw, 21:47 it's the hole the killer dug where the schoolgirl was placed earlier & 22:27 the shot was to show the taxi driver in the photo isn't the same guy (robber/killer) who's driving the cab now Lastly the way the killer went out, it's multi-faceted than just the agent Kim killing him, he made it to be where Gyung-chul dies, while knowing that his family will learn his true identity shortly afterwards, will see his murder dungeon, etc., not to mention knowing he's being killed by his own parents which on the same note, the parents will suffer from for the rest of their lives as well that they did their own son in-
Not really, you guys are just weirdos. The movie had no sense of humor, you just find humor in dark and depraved things because ur weird. It would be disgusting and bad if they even tried to implement humor into such a serious story like this.
i love how often this movie really rubs it in your face how many chances Lee Byung-Hun's character had to stop his psycho shit and prevent more innocent people from getting hurt, and how his obsession with revenge gradually turns him into a monster. that last shot makes me feel so hollow and sad every time
wtf last shot? hes a villain of movie whole movie starting with torturing innocent people prior even getting to that guy...
@@divacroft1034innocent what..? They were all criminals ya dumdo
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Re watch the movie
He's the Frontman in "Squid Game", the Terminator in "Terminator:Genysis", Storm Shadow in "GI Joe" and Ethan Hawke's Bestie in "Magnificent Seven" (Remake)
You absolutely HAVE to watch JSA: Joint Security Area. Same director as Oldboy and starring Song Kang-ho (Parasite, Snowpiecer) and a young Lee Byung-hun (I Saw The Devil, Squid Game). It's 2000, so one of Park Chan-wooks earlier movies but IMO is one of the greatest movies of all time (I always say Shawshank, JSA and Oldboy). If Foreign movies were on the academy's radar at this time like when Parasite won, JSA would have absolutely won Best Picture. I genuinely have no doubts about that. Whether a movie or a book, it is one of the best pieces of story telling ever done. The first time I watched JSA was during a Korean history class at university, when it ended everyone was either too stunned too react or too busy crying and when the credits rolled and it said "director: Park Chan-wook" we were all like "oooooh that makes sense". It's set in the time it's filmed (2000), about some young South Korean soldiers doing their military service who are somehow involved with the deaths of some North Korean soldiers in the opposite guard post and the movie unfolds as flashbacks into what truly happened. An absolute must watch. And go in blind apart from what I've said, trust me. I've seen so many spoilers from a simple google search of the movie.
I actually wrote an essay in university about how South Korean revenge movies often have the line between good and evil very blurred due to their war with the North and how they don't see them as an enemy; like I Saw The Devil, Oldboy, Taekgukgi, 71 Into the Fire etc. I used JSA as my main example in how they always make you sympathise with the "evil" and there's even the line "what's so wrong with people of the same blood hanging out?". In I Saw The Devil, our hero becomes cruel, who is the devil? In Oldboy, you feel sorry for the antagonist and our protagonist is a drunk absent father. In Taegukgi, he thinks his brother is killed by the South and so sees the North as the good people, In 71 Into the Fire, the North Korean Commander spares them and offers them mercy. if I'd written this essay now then I would have included Parasite: who is the parasite? Is it the rich family living off the cheap service of the poor? Or is it the poor family cheating their way into the rich family? JSA: Joint Security Area has very similar themes of feeling sympathetic towards "the enemy".
You should also watch Forgotten (2017). Another movie you should go in totally blind. HIGHLY recommend.
Thanks for the recommendations. Added to my list!
That's an 'interesting choice'; reacting to this movie.
I recommend you to see this horror/crime movie
"summer of 84" ❤
22:36 by the way this is the fourth suspect from the poster on the wall
React to 12th Fail movie it is based on real story and also it has some great shots
I'm wondering if the camera could be facing frontally while you react?? Just curious since you have to turn your head to talk to the camera / your audience and also viewers don't really get to see the full expressions on your face while you're reacting...btw, 21:47 it's the hole the killer dug where the schoolgirl was placed earlier & 22:27 the shot was to show the taxi driver in the photo isn't the same guy (robber/killer) who's driving the cab now
Lastly the way the killer went out, it's multi-faceted than just the agent Kim killing him, he made it to be where Gyung-chul dies, while knowing that his family will learn his true identity shortly afterwards, will see his murder dungeon, etc., not to mention knowing he's being killed by his own parents which on the same note, the parents will suffer from for the rest of their lives as well that they did their own son in-
Thanks for the explanations and constructive criticism! I'll look into another way to place my camera as I do see what you mean.
The film was nice , i agree that the move has weird humor. I really liked the story but I don't like the shaking camera work too much.
Honestly I didn't notice the shaky camera work that much. Was that particularly in the action scenes?
Not really, you guys are just weirdos. The movie had no sense of humor, you just find humor in dark and depraved things because ur weird.
It would be disgusting and bad if they even tried to implement humor into such a serious story like this.