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- Mikko
 
the movie is best if you understand the culture. its a dark comdey making fun of social standards in korea. such as the even of the chemical happened for real in korea. there was no monster of course but people feared the results plus the fact that people neglect their own people by thinking the are automatically crazy. also when they cry it ment to be somewhat funny.

its ok not to like it but it has alot of things to like about it.

its ablack comdey but with it own cultural theme embedded.

i just hate it when people call movies dumb within 15 mins and get the name of the origin wrong.

do you homework and get cultural, save your self the embarassment.
 
Hmm, that's interesting, the fact that the chemical dumping really happened. It's funny that race ignorance has come up in this thread because that's what I felt like the filmmaker did in the beginning of this movie. He had to make the big bad guy the American (do we have to be the bad guys in every foreign film? Scratch that. Do we have to be the bad guys in *every* film??). Then again, if it really happened, I can't complain. I'm sure I would have seen it in a completely different light had I known a little more about contemporary Korean culture. I just wanted the whole thing to be like that early scene where the monster was eating everybody.

Yes, I figured the crying scene (where they're mourning over the girl) was meant to be funny but I wasn't completely sure. I was like, "this isn't serious is it?" Kinda shows that I didn't understand the tone of the movie like I should've.
 
well its a suppose to obvious because it was a white doctor that did it in real life. I guess he was trying to be like see its a white docotor so do you realize what im making fun of? either that he just hasn' broken that barrier in filmmaking and making white actors come off not as evil or as broken....
 
c.g._eads said:
He had to make the big bad guy the American (do we have to be the bad guys in every foreign film? Scratch that. Do we have to be the bad guys in *every* film??).
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You must admit, foreigners are almost always the villians in our american movies (russian, asian, middle eastern, etc.) too.

But, you're right, in this case it's based on an actual event that happened from an American military base (sans the mutated monster).
 
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culture may have something to do with it, but other than a brilliant opening sequence, it really got lost in a sloppy, boring story.
 
PK Gillock said:
A few different links about the original case:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1046046.stm
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FA28Dg02.html
http://usinkorea.org/2nd/environment/2000/dumping.html
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Thought this was interesting.....

The fluid had been treated at two waste-treatment plants before reaching the Han River, where this capital city gets its drinking water, and later simulation tests indicated the fluid was not toxic when it reached the water. Still, it created a furor

Still negligent on behalf of the civillian mortician working for the government. It should have never happened.... Still it made a damn good premise for this movie.
 
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