![]() 301/302: A Film By Chul-Soo Park $14.98 The plot is transparent and the characters are too extreme. Chul-soo Park clearly isn't a master at story-telling with subtlety: the characters are so over-the-top that the characters lack any connection to reality and the ending becomes obvious early on. One woman loves to cook and watch/make others eat, the other is an anorexic/bulimic with an abhorrence for sex. Through a series of flashbacks, the disturbing causes for the personalities of each are explained. Yet through this process, all semblance of reality is lost. The characters lack complexity (aside from the twist-within-a-twist explained by another reviewer, but even this is merely cream on a cup of mud pie). They are one-sided, and there is little revealing or insightful about either the characters or the plot. If you want a cheesy horror-style foreign flick that shows a bit of Korean culture and a glimpse of the husband & wife dynamic, 301/302 may be for you (though I suspect there better Korean films that deliver this). If you want a good twist-within-a-twist, watch Fight Club. ![]() Korean Pop / Ballad Collection [4CD] [Vitamin Entertainment] [Korea 2009] $24.99 [4CD] 56 Tracks / Marketed, Distributed and Manufactured by Vitamin Entertainment. Made in Korea Feb. 2009. |
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