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Daeho (2015)
More than a simple hunting tale
On the surface it's about hunting a large tiger. Under the surface the story is really about the resilience of the Korean spirit and the hardships they endured under Japanese occupation. How the Japanese forced many of them to turn against each other, and how families were torn apart.
Ultimately, the spirit of the people and of the homeland on which they were born and stewarded with their lives, wins out and are forever melded together.
In all, a well told story with great scenery shots and some well done CGI.
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Probably the most inaccurate depiction of a heroin addiction ever.
I was recommended this film by a friend, and after going through it and reviewing each particular scene...I'm not so sure that the actors or directors have done their research properly. This is a pretty poor depiction of heroin addiction and withdrawal.
Right when he uses in the first scene, he appears to have the symptoms of using meth. He's anxious, he's looking around nervously, etc. Not once did he fall out of consciousness or nod off. These are the symptoms of methamphetamine usage. During another scene, his bedside companion uses a substance on a vein in her inner thigh and immediately starts going into an orgasm. Also, a symptom of a methamphetamine induced "meth"-gasm.
During the scenes that he's using, he consistently goes into sweats and even one time at a party enters some kind of psychosis where he's hallucinating. Sweats occur during the withdrawal stage of addiction and hallucination does not ever occur unless mixed with another upper of some kind. Is he really using heroin? Until he starts using crack cocaine which can actually induce these symptoms that are depicted, each frame of mind that is displayed is the polar opposite of opiate-abuse.
Heroin induces involuntary dreaming, even happening mid-conversation where a user will "nod-off" in the middle of it. The case of _not_ having opiates in your bloodstream will actually give you flu-like symptoms. Instead, this film depicts the flu-like symptoms occurring during the time of the main character's usage of the substance which is terribly inaccurate.
Movies that depict opiate addiction and withdrawal accurately would be something such as BlackBird, Jesus' Son, or The Panic in Needle Park. This film unfortunately falls incredibly short of these other films in terms of accuracy. Other than these inaccuracies, the film is a fairly generic story of an addict losing control of his life. I probably wouldn't recommend this film to anybody.
Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla (2014)
A slow film that really isn't worth watching
This film seem like it should be a interesting film but it just doesn't get there. It follows an ice-cream van driver and soap opera fans life over a few months. During his work he meets one of the actors from the soap show and he has to put up with cruel people.
I would have to disagree with another review up here that claims it is similar to Bad Boy Bubby, which I loved. The only similarities I see is that they are both Australian films in which you feel sorry for the main character. In Bad Boy Bubby I was hanging on to see what would happen next because it kept you enthralled but in Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla I was just waiting for something of interest to happen.
The film feels like it is trying to do something that it has not achieved and as a result ended up as a slow boring drama that doesn't hold the viewers attention. I saw it listed as a dark comedy but found almost nothing in the film funny. I do not feel the need to watch this again and personally I would recommend watching something else over this.