THIRST ***** The loneliness of the long distance Korean… [Spoilers?]
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, Rodney Dangerfield
This is the kind of film that takes me a while to watch. In fact, I still have the director’s last film, Oldboy, on my shelf, unopened. It’s not that I don’t want to watch it, I do, and I know it’ll be good, but for some reason I’d rather watch shit like Wolverine first. It doesn’t really make much sense…it reminds me of the time I had Raging Bull and Showtime in my hands, and I watched Showtime first. It’s not logical. But that’s the way it is with films you know will be good, but will take mental energy to watch. And that’s the kind of film I thought Thirst would be. Read the rest of this entry »