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[Arthur Dent]

I want to see this but it is not playing in my area. Either that or it has come and gone? I'm in Bundang.

There is a site which lists movies and times in English someone started a while back. I bookmarked it on my old computer. Can anyone tell me where they saw it, or where it is playing?

There was a thread for this movie but I can't find that with the search function either.

[Stalin84]

http://esldaily.org/movies/Korea/yongsan.htm

Its still playing in Yongsan. I saw it a few weeks ago in Hongdae.

Its very similar to the book except the ending is a bit happier!

[diver]

It makes "No Country For Old Men" look like the feel good movie of the year.

[Arthur Dent]

Thanks Stalin! (Feels a little strange writing that...)

I read the book recently. More challenging than most to make into a movie I thought. I'll try to make it to Yongsan if I can't find it elsewhere.


Diver wrote:

[air76]

lottecinema.co.kr

It's all in Korean, but it's very easy to figure out with even remedial Korean skills.

[janafromfrance]

[nosmallplans]

[Stalin84]

[Arthur Dent]

I had the feeling - and yes, don't read this if you haven't seen the movie/read the book - that there was really no hope for anyone in the future this story envisions.

If the boy had tried to live by himself, I had the impression he would not have survived. Although the story was unusual - compared to other end of the world stories (War Day, On the Beach, I am Legend - Omega Man, etc.) in that it had little back story or explanation as to what happened - I was left with the distinct impression that the human race wouldn't be clawing its way back from this one.

This, to me, was what made the relationship between the boy and his father so poignant and powerful - the entire point of the book in my opinion. The father couldn't bring himself to give up hope for the boys sake. Neither could he give his son a painless death. His only option was to go on. The son senses this partway through the book.

As a reader, I felt that there was no hope, even though the boy survived and seemed to find people to take care of him. There was a current of uncertainty - to say the least - throughout the whole book. With the last conversation the boy has, the author doesn't let up.

I'm not surprised the film seems to finish with a happier ending. Typical.

The whole book - both the spare style in story and in the lack of normal punctuation - has a feeling of a purely internal experience. I want to see how the director translates this to film.

[diver]

"Blood Meridian" is supposed to be coming out in 2011. Now THAT'S one I want to see.

[atwood]

[ms.catbc]

horrible movie

[diver]