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khakilike · 1 year

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I’m angry because I didn’t think of this one first 🤣.

#Honest Trailers | The Mandalorian Season 3 #The Mandalorian #Kim's Convenience #Paul Sun-Hyung Lee #Paul Sun Hyung Lee #Carson Teva #Appa #Kim Sang Il #YouTube #TV #Screen Junkies

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chronophotographic-gun · 21 days

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Memories of Murder (2003)

#memories of murder #memories of murder 2003 #bong joon-ho #song kang-ho #kim sang-kyung #kim roi-ha #park hae-il #song jae-ho #2000s #2003 #filmedit #film #cinema #movies

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smittenskitten · 1 year

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Prince Mu Ahn who recently became a teen dad, also known for his skill of being able to read his mother's mind from the movements of her eyebrows alone

#under the queen's umbrella #kim hye soo #yoon sang hyeon #park joon myun #kdramaedit #asiandramaedit #netflixedit #queensumbrellaedit #prangon gifs #hope they include a side arc for the queen and il young as well

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eveneechan · 1 year

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The Color Concept on Little Women (2022)

Part 1: Princess of Thieves

The Princess of Thieves Orchid have 2 colors: Pink and Purple

Which is the color of dress that Injoo and Hwayoung wear during Singapore climax scene

Injoo: Pink

Hwayoung: Purple

Pink as Injoo's color

Pink orchid have meaning: Romance, Love, Friendship

Injoo's main plot always not far from her sisters and Hwayoung. Her love for them is driving force that keep made Injoo move foward

Purple as Hwayoung's color

Purple orchid have meaning: Wisdom, Intellegence, MYSTERY

Wisdom: Hwayoung is Injoo's senior at workplace. Injoo saw Hwayoung as someone who teach her many things

Intellegence: Hwayoung had planned things very further and details, and outsmarting Sangah's manipulation

Mystery: Hwayoung is central mystery of the story

Hwayoung's Apartment

Hwayoung have small purple orchid on her apartment at Singapore

Hwayoung's apartment wallpaper at South Korea have purple as main color. The wallpaper also used as background for one of main poster

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Purple and Pink on title of Little Women

In opening sequence, the title Little Women have purple with pink shade as background color

In each ending of episode, the title Little Women appear before credits, usually appear in white text and black screen, before the text got painted. The first color of paint in text is Pink and Purple

Which is color of Injoo and Hwayoung

It's like indicating how Little Women's plot story, beside the Oh Sisters, mostly will be around Injoo and Hwayoung

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A glimpse of Pink and Purple color on Injoo and Hwayoung's clothes at South Korea

At South Korea, Injoo mostly wear earth color pallete clothes and Hwayoung mostly wear colorless (black/white) clothes

(more explaination on Part 2: Earthenspoon & Nospoon)

But in 1st episode, there's small purple part in Hwayoung clothes. And when Injoo "playing rich", she wear pink clothes.

It's like hinting how they are part of Princess of Thieves later in story

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Cinderella and Fairygodmother

Hwayoung and Injoo in restaurant scene heavily referenced from Cinderella

Hwayoung is like Fairygodmother who dressing Injoo, the Cinderella, to "playing rich"

The Purple color on Hwayoung and Pink color on Injoo is similar with purple color on Cinderella's Pink dress and Fairygodmother's Purple cloak

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Color Mood of Princess of Thieves

In each scene when Injoo had thinking or talking about Hwayoung, the color mood around her change into combination of Pink and Purple; the color of Princess of Thieves

Quoting from Choo Jahyun (Hwayoung's actress)'s interview:

"It felt like Goeun (Injoo's actress) was living as both Injoo and Hwayoung at the same time in Little Women"

The combination of pink and purple color mood on those scenes is like symbolized how Injoo and Hwayoung become one on Injoo's mind

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The Intruder: Yellow

On Princess of Thieves that appear on Singapore's auction, the flower has little shade of Yellow

Which is color of Won Sangah and fake!Hwayoung's dress on Singapore

Won = name of Korean money currency

Korean highest currency (50,000) has color of Yellow

Yellow = Sangah and Won Family = Capitalism

Yellow vs Purple

On color wheel theory, Yellow and Purple are color that opposite to each other

Symbolized how Hwayoung (Purple) and Sangah (Yellow) are total opposite

In opening sequence, Oh sisters were drawn mostly with shade of purple, and their background is yellow.

Indicating how the sisters are like "actors" in Sangah's play vs Hwayoung; how the battle between those masterminds was told from three sisters' perspective

It's also symbolized how Sangah = Yellow = Money = Capitalism is the main enemy

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The Shadow of Flower

Hwayoung (화영)'s name have meaning Beautiful Flower. The writer JSK had mentioned that she want to give a name to Hwayoung that relate to Flowers because Hwayoung love gardening

In hanja, Hwayoung have secret meaning of her name: 花影 = 꽃의 그림자 = Shadow of Flower

It's like symbolising how Hwayoung is shadow part of flowers:

1. Princess of Thieves: to Injoo

At first, Hwayoung's color seems like also Pink

Hwayoung mostly wear pink on her second account/alter ego Jin Mikyung and on Injoo's imagination about Hwayoung's second life

It's like foreshadowing how Hwayoung live under Injoo's name at Singapore

On locker scene, Hwayoung seems like giving off her pink clothes to Injoo. Like symbolizing she's fully giving the pink side of Princess of Thieves to Injoo, together with all money and Bruno Zumino shoes that she give to her on the bag

2. Blue Ghost Orchid: to Sangah and Won Family/Jeongran

The surname Jin (진) on Jin Hwayoung is to give impression that Hwayoung is came from place that far away (indeed in character description of Hwayoung on official website, it's written Hwayoung is not from Seoul and came to there to work on Orchid Construction). If we look to Jin in Chinese surname version, it has meaning GOLD

It's like secret meaning on how Hwayoung in back have so many money and assets, because she's part of secret society Jeongran and worked for Won family

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Thief Princess

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There's Little Women OST titled "Thief Princess"

The OST indeed mostly got played in some scene that relate to Injoo or/and Hwayoung:

When Injoo decided to search the truth behind Hwayoung's death, and she look to the unbloomed Princess of Thieves

When Sangah give Injoo a blue suit, and then Injoo remembering how Hwayoung give her a black suit before this

When Hwayoung confess that she want Injoo to be happy on court scene

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stuff-diary · 4 months

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My Demon

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

My Demon (2023/24, South Korea)

Director: Kim Jang Han

Writer: Choi Ah Il

Mini-review:

Look, I'm not gonna lie. I started this drama for a very superficial reason: Kim Yoo Jung and Song Kang are one of the most gorgeous couples I've ever seen. And tbh, that's one of the things that kept me watching until the end. The first half was pretty fun, thanks to their will-they-won't-they dynamic and some really funny supporting characters and recurring gags. Unfortunately, it began to drag around the middle part, and then it got more and more boring with each passing episode. By the time the final episode came out, I no longer cared about the plot, the characters or anything else (although the ending itself was quite nice). With all that in mind, I can't help but think My Demon would have worked much better as a movie.

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speakingparts · 1 year

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DECISION TO LEAVE

헤어질 결심

Park Chan-Wook, 2022

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choidoils-blog · 2 years

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I am somewhat satisfied with the ending (except doil injoo not being the endgame lets talk about that later) but there are few things i wished to see differently.

1. ⁠The villain takedown was not satisfactory. I was left confused about the dynamics between sangah & jaesang. His character was definitely much more than just killing himself at one order of his wife. Especially when did see him overpowering her in the past. Also, I wanted a more painful end for Sangah.

2. ⁠The functioning of Jeongran Society. I was left confused whether the other members were aware of Sangah killing people in the name of the society? We do know that her dad was actively involved in murders but they dealt with it poorly considering they focused so much on it in the beginning. I was confused whether it was an actual foundation to help underprivileged children & then kill them off once they were no longer useful? Like how & why? I was strangely very much interested in the cult so imagine my disappointment that they didn’t clear these things.

3. ⁠Romanticising Hwayoung’s actions: unpopular opinion but hwayoung isn’t the hero the drama made her out to be. she intentionally dragged injoo into this mess by giving her the money. her happiness my foot. she ain’t dumb to not know what she was putting injoo into while living lavishly herself in singapore. She intentionally dragged Injoo in all the mess & gets away with only a sorry? just because she saved her life in Singapore when she was the reason why Injoo landed in danger in first place. I still don’t get her motives. if she indeed cared about injoo then she wouldn’t have given her the money at first place knowing how sangah has been grooming injoo using her. she would’ve sent injoo far away from anything related to sangah. they want us to feel bad for her? she used injoo’s naivety as well for her own benefits just like others. & the fact that she actually hired an innocent person to get killed in her place is so damn fkd up. all this just for a revenge? i am glad doil wasn’t involved in her plans because i had a theory that they were working together to bring down sangah. still mad that injoo forgave her just like that because she saved her life in singapore but not even a thank you to doil when he has protected her at each & every step 😭

4. ⁠Doil’s closure with his family. I know the story wasn’t about him but just a scene with him & his parents wouldn’t have hurt. Especially when his life was directly impacted by the evils of Jeongran Society. I wanted to know how he & his mom survived the accident? What happened to his dad? Argh if only.

5. ⁠Hyorin’s reaction to her parents’ death. No matter how evil they were, jaesang & sangah were still her parents & they should’ve shown atleast one reaction from her. Ah well.

6. ⁠One scene with the Oh sisters together in their new apartment. They should have given us atleast a reunion of them being happy together one last time.

All in all it was a fun watch. The screenplay was engaging with beautiful cinematography & great acting from everyone. I still think they needed 2 more episodes to wrap up things in a more convincing manner. 8/10 for me (deducting one point for the above mentioned reasons & one for no doil-injoo endgame)

#choi do il #kim go eun #little women korea #oh in joo #oh in ju #tvn little women #wi ha joon #wi ha jun #oh in hye #oh in kyung #little women #uhm ji won #won sang ah #uhm ki joon #park jae sang #park ji hu

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undisclosedmemoirs · 2 years

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LITTLE WOMEN

I really liked the drama tbh. Haven't felt this kind of excitement for an ongoing drama since Vincenzo and I obssessed over that one....

Sang Ah got what she deserved, I knew she had something to do with her mothers' death, complete psycho, like scary-level character. The acid shower was gruesome....

Kinda feel bad for Hwayoung, Sang Ah completely broke her spirit and that led her to years dedicated for the sole purpose of revenge, which we understand first hand because it is explained by her... Still, I am a bit disapointed with this part of the plot, I don't think her explaining what happened and how she did it was reason enough to pull the resurrection card because she didn't do anything other than that. It could have been done with a video, a letter, a file, anything else... In the end she got kidnapped and almost died, again. She got hit by a freaking truck, walked and runned around Singapore and survived that, heaven knows how. This is The Fast and Furious kind of plot armor right there.

Other than that (and my ship, not sinking or sailing, it's just floating in the high seas), I am happy with the ending. From the begining I kind of felt like the sisters would not be together in the end, not physically that is. They love eachother and will always have eachothers backs, but they needed their space to experience different things and do what they really wanted to do and be happy on their own. Being poor made them so co-dependent that they could litterally all have died because of it. They need a fresh start, each one of them. I think it is good ending.

#tvn little women #100% would recomend the watch #spoiler alert #choi do il #oh in joo #oh in kyung #oh in hye #won sang ah #jin hwa young #little women #wi ha joon #kim go eun #kang hoon #nam ji hyun #park ji hoo #kim hee won

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rookie-critic · 1 year

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Memories of Murder (2003, dir. Bong Joon-ho) - review by Rookie-Critic

Prior to 2019 (really 2020, if we want to get really specific) there probably weren't a lot of people in the States who could tell you who Bong Joon-ho is if pressed. Nowadays, after Bong's historic first non-English language Best Picture win for Parasite, most people would at least identify the name as familiar, and for good reason. Parasite is undoubtedly amazing; its message is both regionless and timeless, it has superb acting and brilliant cinematography, it is one of the best films of the modern era, if not any era. However, prior to Parasite, back in the days when Bong's fanbase outside of his native South Korea was limited to foreign film lovers and people who really liked Snowpiercer, most people would probably point to his breakout film, Memories of Murder, as his best work, and for a lot of the same reasons that people point to Parasite as his best now.

I'm not entirely sure why it has taken me so long to sit down and watch this considering how much I've enjoyed the other films of his that I've seen, but I'm glad I finally did. Following the true story of the detectives that investigated the Hwaseong serial murders of the mid-80s to the mid-90s, the film works as both a gripping crime thriller and a social satire of the failings of the legal system and the corrupt nature of a lot of its employees. One of our protagonists, Detective Park Doo-man (played brilliantly as always be Song Kang-ho) as well as his partner Detective Cho Yong-koo, are horrible police officers. They fake evidence, they torture victims until they'll confess to anything to make it stop, and they scoff at real investigative discoveries and excuse them as the other detectives "watching too many crime movies" (which in and of itself is an amazing line that both pokes fun at and winks a respectful eye towards the crime films that it follows in the legacy of); all they care about is putting someone away, regardless of if the person is actually guilty of the crime they're accused of committing or not. You can watch the film purely from a plot perspective and be entertained and engrossed, but much like Parasite, the true genius of it lies within this satirical commentary.

The knowledge that maybe the killer could have been stopped, victims could have been saved, if more resources had been poured into actually searching for the real killer instead of trying to put away people who obviously had nothing to do with it is maddening, but somehow Bong is able to inject humor throughout the film that makes all of these frustrating people and darker moments have a brief sense of levity without taking away from the nature of the subject matter. It's truly amazing the way he is able to craft stories that are not only interesting from a surface level perspective, but that contain darker themes and complex social commentary that even casual moviegoers can pick up on and appreciate, and then even with all of that blend comedy and drama so seamlessly you rarely notice the change. Another element of the film that I personally found brilliant, and that I briefly mentioned above, is the way that it seems to be a love letter to the crime dramas/thrillers that came before it and a criticism of them at the same time. If you've been following my reviews for awhile, you'll know how deeply I appreciate films that are able to strike that balance (Scream, Nope, etc.). The ability to acknowledge the problems with a genre without completely dismissing the films that portray those flaws as lesser or bad is something that just appeals to me on such a core level. This may just sound like a meeting of the Bong Joon-ho Fan Club, but it is truly awe-inspiring that he can make a film that has something for everyone in it, and can make everyone enjoy the other bits that, in any other movie, they may not have.

Now, Memories of Murder isn't perfect, it is only Bong's second film and some of those early film maker pitfalls exist here. A lot of the first half of the movie tends to drag a bit, and there may be certain scenes that could have cut or sequences that could have been re-edited to keep that sense of urgency (or maybe even the lack thereof on the part of the detectives) a little more present and flowing. Also, and I know I just got done ranting about how great this exact quality was, but sometimes the injection of humor could overtake the film a little too much. It doesn't happen but maybe once or twice, but I did take note of those moments as something that stood out to me, at least. Outside of these few kinks, Memories of Murder just further proves that Bong Joon-ho just knows what he's doing, and I can safely add another film to the "great" column of his filmography, and hopefully soon I can finish out watching the rest of them.

Score: 9/10

Currently streaming on Hulu.

#Memories of Murder #Bong Joon-ho #Song Kang-ho #Kim Sang-kyung #Kim Roi-ha #Song Jae-ho #Byun Hee-bong #Go Seo-hee #Ryu Tae-ho #Park No-shik #Park Hae-il #Jeon Mi-seon #film review #movie review #2003 films

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blackramhall · 1 year

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살인의 추억 - Memories of Murder Bong Joon-ho (2003)

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#살인의 추억 #Memories of Murder #Bong Joon-ho #noir #Kim Kwang-lim #Come to See Me #1986 #2003 #Song Kang-ho #Kim Sang-kyung #Kim Roe-ha #Song Jae-ho #Byeon Hee-bong #Ko Seo-hie #Park No-shik #Park Hae-il #Jeon Mi-seon

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genevieveetguy · 2 years

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Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim), Park Chan-wook (2022)

#Park Chan wook #Seo kyeong Jeong #Tang Wei #Park Hae il #Go Kyung Pyo #Teo Yoo #Lee Jung Hyun #Yong woo Park #Ji yong Kim #Yeong wook Jo #Sang beom Kim #2022

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boomgers · 3 months

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Una tierra desconocida y una vida desalentadora… “Me Llamo Loh Kiwan”

Loh Kiwan, un desertor norcoreano, se propone cumplir el último deseo de su madre: encontrar un lugar donde pueda ser él mismo y vivir a su manera. Viaja a Bélgica para solicitar asilo como refugiado, pero acaba en el limbo sin medios para ganarse la vida o tener dónde vivir.

Marie, que solía representar al equipo nacional belga de tiro y ahora lucha contra sus demonios internos, se topa con un Kiwan exhausto y le roba la cartera. Los dos tienen un enfrentamiento y solo cuando Marie se da cuenta de que la cartera es el único recuerdo que queda de la madre de Kiwan, empiezan a sentirse conectados por sus experiencias compartidas.

Estreno: 1º de marzo de 2024 en Netflix.

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La película está dirigida por Kim Hee-jin y protagonizada por Song Joong-ki, Choi Sung-eun, Waël Sersoub, Cho Han-cheul, Kim Sung-ryoung, Lee Il-hwa, Lee Sang-hee y Seo Hyun-woo.

#Ro Gi Wan #Song Joong-ki #Choi Sung-eun #Waël Sersoub #Cho Han-cheul #Kim Sung-ryoung #Lee Il-hwa #Lee Sang-hee #Seo Hyun-woo #Películas #Netflix

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everyfilmisaw · 7 months

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레드아이 (Red Eye) by Kim Dong-bin, 2005

#Kim Dong-bin #Park Won-sang #Jang Shin-young #Song Il-kook #south korea #korean movie #horror #horror movies #2000s #2000s movies #2000s music

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swampflix · 11 months

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Memories of Murder (2003)

Bong Joon-ho’s 2003 feature 살인의 추억 (Memories of Murder) is an example of a familiar genre made unfamiliar in its trappings, at least at first. Initially, this is because it is set in the yesteryear of 1986—and, as L.P. Hartley noted in his 1953 novel The Go-Between, “the past is a foreign country” where things are done differently—but also because it takes place in the South Korean city of…

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#bong joon-ho #Go Seo-hee #Kim Roi-ha #Kim Sang-kyung #mark boomer redmond #memories of murder #murder mystery #Park Hae-il #Park No-shik #reviews #Ryu Tae-Ho #serial killers #Song Jae-ho #song kang-ho #thrillers

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stuff-diary · 1 month

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Wedding Impossible

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Wedding Impossible (2024, South Korea)

Director: Kwon Young Il

Writers: Oh Hye Won & Park Seul Ki (based on the webtoon by Song Jung Won)

Mini-review:

Well, this drama was entertaining, but nothing more. It was especially funny at the beginning, thanks to that sort of 'rivalry' between the leads. However, once they solved that and started moving into purely romantic territory, the story began to lose steam quickly. Tbh, I kept watching to the very end because of the sizzling chemistry between Jeon Jong Seo and Moon Sang Min. And I guess I wanted to see how in the world they were gonna clear up the mess created by the characters, which was pretty fascinating. I feel like the show would have been better if the director had put more thought into its style, cause the whole thing looked pretty cheap and bland. But still, Wedding Impossible is fun enough, and I can see fans of classic romcoms enjoying it a lot.

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speakingparts · 1 year

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DECISION TO LEAVE

헤어질 결심

Park Chan-Wook, 2022

[...] Seo-rae is a Chinese woman who speaks Korean at an advanced, but not native level. Park could have inserted the occasional grammatical error into her speech, but he chose not to (in contrast to the text messages sent by her second husband in the latter part of the film, which are filled with typos to comic effect). Seo-rae's word choices are unexpected, and she speaks in a slightly archaic manner to express the fact that she learned much of her Korean by watching costume dramas on TV. The end result is dialogue that feels unusual, slightly awkward but highly expressive in its own way. I'm not sure if my translation fully captures this quality of her speech, but I tried my hardest, from the charmingly stilted (“In Korea, if a person you love gets married, does the love cease?”) to the weirdly poetic (“Because those bleeding photos are screaming wildly”).

Sometimes, discussions with the director are about what is added in translation, rather than what is lost. In one scene, Seo-rae speaks a line in Chinese to the neighborhood cat. Hae-joon records it on his phone, and runs it through a translation app which renders it as, "If you wish to give me a present, bring me the simjang of that kind detective." Simjang in Korean means “heart,” but in the sense of the bodily organ, rather than a metaphorical sense. Hae-joon is disturbed and a bit alarmed by this request, and later asks Seo-rae about it directly. She answers that it was a mistranslation; the Chinese word she spoke should be properly rendered as maeum (the metaphorical sense of the word “heart”). How does one capture all this in the English subtitles? As much as I liked the sound of the phrase, "Bring me the heart of that kind detective," it sounded too metaphorical, rather than the menacing undercurrent that the scene required. After a lengthy discussion, we decided that having the translation app confuse the words “head” and “heart” might be the least bad option. Thus the subtitle, "Bring me the head of that kind detective." "Everyone's going to think you’re referencing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," I said to Park. A long pause followed, before he answered, "Very well." (Park is, after all, a devoted Sam Peckinpah fan.)

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