(Actually I think it's right underneath Decision To Leave, Park Chan Wook is at his best directing this movie but it doesn't have the richness and depth of the characters that his movies with Chung Seo-Kyung have; 10/10 directing, editing, pacing, etc etc but I think it was 8/10 writing)
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sexywheat [none/use name] - 3w
I will watch it, for I am not a lib. Decision to Leave was probably one of my least favourite movies ever, but I will consider that a one-off since he is otherwise a good director and Korean movies in general have been outstanding in recent years.
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10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any] - 3w
Sorta related, I watch all 5 hours of this pellicula about NK movie scene
Have you seen Joint Security Area (also directed by Park Chan Wook)? I've talked about it here before but it's a surprisingly pro-DPRK movie (or at least sympathetic, there's some anticommunism but it's definitely on the backseat to the main themes of camaraderie and solidarity), especially given that it's illegal to explicitly praise NK.
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10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any] - 3w
No but you know what I'll come back to this next time I'm with my mate, he likes movies a lot and i do like them as well but i dont have the attention span to look them up by myself
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HexReplyBot [none/use name] - 3w
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Why didn't you like Decision to Leave? It's the most similar movie to No Other Choice from his filmography, so you might not like this one much either (unless you didn't like it because of the ending or you're that person on Twitter who hated Decision to Leave because of the main character cheating on his wife; that doesn't happen on this one)
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sexywheat [none/use name] - 3w
Why didn't you like Decision to Leave?
It was a story about a failed marriage and then the woman that the guy fell for [REDACTED] for seemingly no reason. It was a completely pointless story. No social commentary, nothing interesting to say, and an ending that made no sense.
There are tens of millions of failed relationships in the world and I don't care to hear about any of them.
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 3w
What about how the story about how I was betrayed by my now ex-GF using my Wii U gamepad as an improvised charcuterie board while gaming?
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 3w
She asked "do you mind if I cheese this shit" and pointed at it, to which I assumed she meant Super Mario 3D World that was currently on the gamepad display and said yeah that's fine, obviously. Come back, an assortment of cheeses and crackers are atop it as she plays on the TV screen, somehow balancing the various gourmand delights and making a hundredth attempt on the final Champion's Road stage.
Still smells like cheese months later.
Still haven't beaten Champion's Road.
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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 3w
Sometimes they gotta do a little bit of elfcare.
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 3w
She's not an elf. I would not date an elf, neither the tall nor short kind.
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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 3w
Watch No Other Choice then! It has the things you thought Decision to Leave was lacking.
I think Song Seo-Rae's arc makes sense. She's too troubled to keep going and doesn't want to continue on her path of destruction. She feels she can't belong and every time she's taken up agency to do anything, she screws everything up! Maybe it is very unsatisfying and wrong for there to be a character who can't fit in this world, but I didn't mind it too much. Maybe a different ending could've made the movie a lot better than it already is, though.
I agree that it doesn't have a huge amount to say beyond its own confines; it's fundamentally just a really tightly paced and well executed star crossed lovers story. I absolutely adore it for how it uses some sprinkles of surrealism, the idiosyncratic cuts with similar compositions across different contexts, and the setups and payoffs.
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SevenSkalls [he/him] - 3w
Haven't heard of any of the movies in this thread. Guess I haven't seen enough Korean cinema, except the most popular things (so far that's been Old Boy, Parasite, Train To Busan).
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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 3w
If you like Oldboy and Parasite you should just check out the rest of their directors' stuff. That's more or less how I got started.
FunkyStuff in movies
No Other Choice (2025) is really good.
Watch it or you're a
(Actually I think it's right underneath Decision To Leave, Park Chan Wook is at his best directing this movie but it doesn't have the richness and depth of the characters that his movies with Chung Seo-Kyung have; 10/10 directing, editing, pacing, etc etc but I think it was 8/10 writing)
I will watch it, for I am not a lib. Decision to Leave was probably one of my least favourite movies ever, but I will consider that a one-off since he is otherwise a good director and Korean movies in general have been outstanding in recent years.
Sorta related, I watch all 5 hours of this pellicula about NK movie scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-pPPUAppk
Have you seen Joint Security Area (also directed by Park Chan Wook)? I've talked about it here before but it's a surprisingly pro-DPRK movie (or at least sympathetic, there's some anticommunism but it's definitely on the backseat to the main themes of camaraderie and solidarity), especially given that it's illegal to explicitly praise NK.
No but you know what I'll come back to this next time I'm with my mate, he likes movies a lot and i do like them as well but i dont have the attention span to look them up by myself
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Why didn't you like Decision to Leave? It's the most similar movie to No Other Choice from his filmography, so you might not like this one much either (unless you didn't like it because of the ending or you're that person on Twitter who hated Decision to Leave because of the main character cheating on his wife; that doesn't happen on this one)
It was a story about a failed marriage and then the woman that the guy fell for [REDACTED] for seemingly no reason. It was a completely pointless story. No social commentary, nothing interesting to say, and an ending that made no sense.
There are tens of millions of failed relationships in the world and I don't care to hear about any of them.
What about how the story about how I was betrayed by my now ex-GF using my Wii U gamepad as an improvised charcuterie board while gaming?
She asked "do you mind if I cheese this shit" and pointed at it, to which I assumed she meant Super Mario 3D World that was currently on the gamepad display and said yeah that's fine, obviously. Come back, an assortment of cheeses and crackers are atop it as she plays on the TV screen, somehow balancing the various gourmand delights and making a hundredth attempt on the final Champion's Road stage.
Still smells like cheese months later.
Still haven't beaten Champion's Road.
Sometimes they gotta do a little bit of elfcare.
She's not an elf. I would not date an elf, neither the tall nor short kind.
Watch No Other Choice then! It has the things you thought Decision to Leave was lacking.
I think Song Seo-Rae's arc makes sense. She's too troubled to keep going and doesn't want to continue on her path of destruction. She feels she can't belong and every time she's taken up agency to do anything, she screws everything up! Maybe it is very unsatisfying and wrong for there to be a character who can't fit in this world, but I didn't mind it too much. Maybe a different ending could've made the movie a lot better than it already is, though.
I agree that it doesn't have a huge amount to say beyond its own confines; it's fundamentally just a really tightly paced and well executed star crossed lovers story. I absolutely adore it for how it uses some sprinkles of surrealism, the idiosyncratic cuts with similar compositions across different contexts, and the setups and payoffs.
Haven't heard of any of the movies in this thread. Guess I haven't seen enough Korean cinema, except the most popular things (so far that's been Old Boy, Parasite, Train To Busan).
If you like Oldboy and Parasite you should just check out the rest of their directors' stuff. That's more or less how I got started.