- The mother looked as retarded as the son.
- The "best friend" character acted like the killer during the whole movie. He invades the Mother's house, treats her like *beep* and blackmail her... Then, later, helps her like some sort of badass. Totally unbelievable character.
- The incest conotation was really needed? It was gross and never amounted to anything.
By far, the worst Korean film I've seen. And I've seen four - Fighter of the Wind, Oldboy, I Saw the Devil and this.
I have no answer for you. And, of course, you are entitled to your own opinions.
That being said, I seriously think I've become dumber after reading your comments...
I completely agree with your 'best friend' point
and I completely disagree with everything else you said
Forget it,Jake. It's Chinatown
I have to agree. I thought I was the only one who didn't like this movie because everyone else seems to love it. I thought it was quite slow and it just didn't keep my interest. I thought the movie was going to be different when I read the description if it. This movie was just dreadful in my opinion.
shareIf I was a film maker. And I set years of my life to make one film...it wouldn't be mother. This movie just doesn't make me care....at all.
I don't really agree with your points but I did find the film to be very slow; which wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't for the predictability of narrative and lack of interest in what's going on. A dull film unfolding at a snails pace with no pay off
share"- The mother looked as retarded as the son."
All her life revolves around her son, and she panics several times when that is threatened to be destroyed completely. She is supposed to be an extreme "mother", you know. Also with some psychological issues and not terribly educated, to make the character work and not distract from the themes. However, of normal intelligence for her background and relative to other characters.
"- The "best friend" character acted like the killer during the whole movie. He invades the Mother's house, treats her like *beep* and blackmail her... Then, later, helps her like some sort of badass. Totally unbelievable character."
He is a shady character alright, but indiciated to be relatively smart (aside from his methods and good investigative reasoning, he had a science book lying around). His shadiness is partly what seems to enable him to find trails. And "badassness" implies some sort of going out of the norm, even violence, though in a sympathetic association or application.
And a murder investigation movie with ambiguities, false trails and shady characters, who would have thought such a thing.
"- The incest conotation was really needed? It was gross and never amounted to anything."
It displayed his simplemindedness regarding sexuality and the close relationship and dependency between them. He's a "mother's boy" of the most extreme sort, and his mother is partly at fault, and the connotation was just to show how "odd" it is - in a way society would talk about it as well.
These are random crap points you have, making it seem as if you watched it on a phone, or certainly established as much of a connection with what you were viewing. I'd say it's certainly an interesting film.