I finished City Hunter. I had four episodes left, which amounted to four hours of content. I've literally had the tab open for the last month. It's good to close them after all this time. Although I cooled off on the show, the conclusion was surprisingly solid. Everything always seems to end in a rush when it comes to Kdramas, but they did a good job given the constraints. I still feel the show went on for too long. Make it 15 or 16 episodes like every other drama.
Finishing the show took a significant amount of time, and since I was in the mood for more, I moved on to my second selection for the month: Antichrist. While the director wouldn't classify his movie as a horror, it's totally a horror. It's not scary, but the movie fits firmly in the genre. It's an art house psychological thriller. It's got some fancy techniques to really wear on the audience's perception--fisheye lens, super slow motion sequences, screen shake, and some really explicit scenes of genital mutilation. The cinematography is very close and never leaves us room to breathe.
I'm not sure how I feel about the movie. I suppose it's worth a watch out of curiosity, but most will probably find it plodding and shocking for no reason. It's one of those movies where you hear stories of people throwing up or fainting in film festivals. I could never understand that. Those people really gotta be faint of heart to be reduced to that level. I don't think any movie has induced that extreme of a reaction from me.
And to cleanse the palate, I watched Kicking and Screaming with Will Ferrell. I remember a conversation with my friends about funny movies and they talked about one scene in particular that was really funny and I was really curious as to what that scene was. I still don't know, but I will say that the best scene in the movie was Ferrell calling Ditka juice box. That entire exchange was hilarious. Was that the scene or were you talking about something else, huh?!
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