Park helps that by keeping a constant sense of tension, establishing mysterious villains and adroitly cutting to them to keep the audience on edge.
She’s quick, funny, and interesting when we find out what the actual story is behind her and her powers we get a new dimension of understanding to what we’ve already seen, but the point is that Kim’s able to give everyday scenes with Ja-yoon’s family and her best friend (Go Min-si) real interest. Kim’s acting has to be mentioned here, as her Ja-yoon drives the film and keeps things interesting.
Emotional moments come up and are allowed to breathe, but give way to more action-driven sequences in a way that feels natural. The craftsmanship’s excellent and the pacing’s near-perfect, both in terms of the selection of scenes and also in the rhythm of the editing. Over two hours long (with a listed running time of 126 minutes), it passes by like a shot. It explodes into violence at the end after a build-up of increasing tension, and we neither miss the action earlier nor feel it unearned when it comes. This is a fast, intelligent, well-shot film with elements of thriller and super-hero story. Agents of various sorts draw closer to her and her family. But then she wins a nationally-televised talent competition, and the mysterious forces that threatened her when young find her again. Ten years later, Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi) lives in a small town with her adopted parents, hiding her telekinetic powers. It begins with mysterious assassins killing gifted children, and one child escaping under cover of night. The Witch is written and directed by Park Hoon-jung.
But these things were expressed in very different ways. Both films were about young women, and both leads had elements of the inhuman to them.
#THE WITCH PART 1. THE SUBVERSION MOVIE#
The second was a German-language Swiss movie called Blue My Mind, about a teenager moving to a new school and finding herself undergoing a strange metamorphosis. The Subversion, a Korean action movie with super-hero elements. I had two movies on my schedule for Wednesday, July 25.
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