What do you guys think it was??
I was for the kid having some ability, but now I think it was guilt. He killed his wife thinking it was his girlfriend of of guilt. Only thing that made sense since it doesn't have a reason to make the kid supernatural. I think that would make the story more silly.
What do you guys think??
at first i didn't know what the hell was goin on. but then he kept refering to his wife as 'kid' and turning around and talkin to his wife. then it dawned on me. before he strangles her, it shows the whole room spinning around in circles. i think what happened is that he just snapped and got so confused that he got the two people mixed up. he thought he was killing the kid, but in reality it was his wife. but thats just my interpretation.
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Someone said the whole thing was a dream, but I still don't understand it and I consider myself pretty good at finding hiding things in movies.
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I've been a follower of miike for a bit now and I love his movies. Gives you enough information to make you think you understand and then he pulls the rug from under your feet.
Can any one recommend movies from the other directors? I think after watching the other directors it will help me understand cut a bit better. Dumpling does need explaining
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Oh ok. Yes I've seen the vengence trilogy and loved them. And definitely yes on ichi as well as dead or alive. The first one. I've seen a lot of miike films because I love his movies.
I'm going to have to do research on the other directors and their movies.
I recommend what I think is Park's first film, JSA. It's a great political thriller with all the suspense of Park's other films.
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Really? I actually thought that Dumplings was the only story in the movie that did not need any explanation. It was straight to the point, obvious, and not confusing at all, as the other two stories were. That's just me though.
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This is in response to Jesstears. I got Dumplings but did not appreciate it fully until I saw the full length version of it as a 90 minute movie by the same title "Dumplings" which looks like it came out about the same time as 3 extremes.
shareThis is in response to Jesstears. I got Dumplings but did not appreciate it fully until I saw the full length version of it as a 90 minute movie by the same title "Dumplings" which looks like it came out about the same time as 3 extremes.
shareThis is in response to Jesstears. I got Dumplings but did not appreciate it fully until I saw the full length version of it as a 90 minute movie by the same title Dumplings which looks like it came out about the same time as 3 extremes.
shareyou see a woman sitting next to him in the car in the beginning of the movie, but when he stops the car in the garage there's no one there. i guess she was all in his imagination and she was the one he was talking to in the end.
not sure how he mixed up his wife and her, though.
That's the girl he was giving a lift home to. He had already dropped her off (and presumably slept with her) by the time he returns home.
shareI don't think there was anything strange about the ending. I don't think it was all in his head, I don't think the kid had supernatural powers. Nothing like that. I think he just snapped at the end and strangled his wife, thinking it was the kid.
As for the girl in the car, it was probably the girl he said he was having an affair with.
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I wondered if there was something perhaps in the swap of the wife and boy characters. As the short progresses we learn that the boy is the son to the psycho. We know the psycho evolved into his own dad, and maybe the beatings the boy took (pre-film) matured him and he aged psychologically with that, with the killing of his father, and with the carnage before him. The wife on the other hand was a botox junkie, and as useless as a child, because she had no talent, skill or vocation.
I never settled on this hypothesis, but had considered that the director's mind (which the psycho proved to be oblivious to people, and only see portrayed characters) had become susceptible to the wife's childlike validity and the boy's psychological weathering. The short mirror and doubling montage, i surmised, could therefore be a metaphor for perception within vision (relevant to the director's profession).
I'll be interested to see Byung-Hun Lee in Red 2 soon. Interesting like when Anthony Wong turned up in The Mummy 3 or whatever it was called. Diamond in the rough *beep* right there.
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I was so confused by the ending. But i found stuff repeating its self. and It was weird that the Extra said "I strangling my wife till her tongue hung out....my son i couldn't finish" (something to that extent) and at the end thats exactly what happened only it was the director in place of the extra. Man this was the best of the 3 extremes.
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The movie was a representation of life living with an siamese twin. The older sister clearly controlled more of their body as they got older...she was capable of aging. They may have tried to escape one another at some points--perhaps jealousy of the boyfriend/father but ultimately they realize that they can never escape each other...and must instead live with the horrible consequences of how they treated/feel about each other...
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