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olvaheiner · 4 months

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Concrete Utopia (2023)

Directed by Eom Tae-hwa

#Concrete Utopia #Eom Tae-hwa #cinema #Lee Byung-hun #Park Seo-joon #Park Bo-young #Kim Sun-young #2023 #south korea #olvaset

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woundedheartwithin · 1 year

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I Come with the Rain (2009)

#Lee Byung-hun #I come with the rain #my gifs #off topic

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faytelumos · 6 months

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Dude.

Hon'.

Bro.

Imagine my surprise and confusion when I thought Mads Mikkelsen was in Squid Game for .04 seconds.

#Mads Mikkelsen #Lee Byung-Hun #look alike #Hannibal #Squid Game #I was completely floored #shook even #this is so amazing #wow #imagine you and your doppleganger in the world both ending up on TV #crazy #do they know?#(they must I'm sure I'm not the first one to notice)#so anyway yeah I just watched Squid Game this week #IT WAS SO GOOD WHAT #if I'd known this show was about being poir instead of gratuitous violence I would have watched it when it was coming out #*poor #🕸️

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neovallense · 8 days

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Concrete Utopia (id, 2023)

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anamon-book · 1 year

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誰にでも秘密がある東宝（株）出版・商品事業室監督＝チャン・ヒョンス／出演：イ・ビョンホン、チェ・ジウ、チュ・サンミ、キム・ヒョジンほか

#everybody has a little secret #誰にでも秘密がある #Chang Hyun-soo #チャン・ヒョンス #lee byung-hun #イ・ビョンホン #choi ji-woo #チェ・ジウ #choo sang-mi #チュ・サンミ #kim hyo-jin #キム・ヒョジン #anamon #古本屋あなもん #あなもん #映画パンフレット #movie pamphlet

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sloshed-cinema · 8 months

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Joint Security Area [공동경비구역 JSA] (2000)

A picture really does say a thousand words. The final image of Park Chan-wook’s DMZ character study perfectly sums up the relationship between its four central characters as well as the overall tone that it sets in examining the human consequences of such a specific and thoroughly enforced piece of diplomatic work. The monochrome photograph captures Sgt Oh’s wry expression, Pvt Jeong grinning as he marches in the background, Pvt Nam against the wall and Sgt Lee moving to block the lens. There’s an irreverence hiding in plain sight here, a secret pact which Park teases out over the course of this military thriller. But even more brilliantly, the taking of the image itself served as a character beat earlier in the film. While it’s not the first time we meet Sgt Oh, this is his first true reveal, making the choice to hand a tourist’s hat which has blown over into the DPRK back over to the ROK. He’s stiff and militaristic, but capable of making humanistic gestures, we see here. Throughout the rest of the film, he is perhaps the levelest mind in the room. Though fervent in his dedication to the DPRK in his words, Oh seems to value the lives of those he cares about more when things get tense. He uses this zealotry to purposefully, perhaps, sabotage a cross-examination when Lee looks about to break and perhaps damage his future, and as we come to learn about the confrontation which sparked the investigation and film, Oh works to protect his brethren on the southern side of the border even after his comrade is shot. He’s a good man. They’re all good men, on some level. The central idyll is like a warm blanket were it not for the knowledge that this is doomed to fail violently, nightly gatherings of camaraderie. But we come as an audience to enjoy their time together goofing off and swapping cigarettes and stories. It’s a connection not seen anywhere else in this world of strict and arbitrary ceremony and custom. Even the woman investigating the incident, Swiss negotiator Maj Jean, is separated from her intimate connections, her father’s past as a North Korean general weaponized and herself distant from him. Everything is defined by this line in the sand, and yet four men found a way to step across it. If only for a moment. Neither Lee nor Nam escape the fallout, and Oh can only find the release of discharge. It’s a moment in time, a snapshot.

Director Park uses flashbacks and perspective to spool out the different potential truths at hand before revealing the full facts of the matter. It’s well-executed, but not exactly anything novel. What is more interesting is his effortless as usual command of visual storytelling through editing and motifs. Borders are at once very important and completely frivolous, as exemplified by the concrete band defining the split between the two territories. ROK soldiers line up in drills to shoot moving targets from a model version of this setup, but those same soldiers from both sides will in other instances line up to swap cigarettes and hunt rabbit in a whole different kind of war-game. Our secret friends become increasingly juvenile during their duties, early on making threats about shadows crossing the border, which escalates to a spitting contest. They can’t even maintain a straight face when on duty facing off against one another, which makes their later face-to-face encounter at deposition, when there can be no falsehood, all the more heartbreaking. Later, mulling her options, Jean walks back and forth on that line like it’s a tightrope, balancing geopolitical consequences. Park is never twee or kumbahyah, we should all just get along about it: klaxons warn of imminent invasion and the ROK border defense react, our central quartet mull the consequences of invasion and how they would have to shoot each other in such a scenario. He's not naive, but Park does arch his brow at the theatrics of it all.

Underneath all of this is a heavy layer of queer subtext. It’s almost full-on text, just have an orgy! The one thing holding this film back. Nothing’s perfect. But there’s a definite longing between these four, especially Nam and Jeong. The secrecy of night can hide these normal interactions which the outer world condemns. Further overtures are made and blissfully received as Nam witnesses a mirror being flashed from across the border and practically exits this plane of existence. Jeong enjoys the arts and receives his birthday gift rhapsodically. Coded messages—the passing of a Yankee lighter, whistling—take the place of conventional conversation. The memento of the landmine fuse intertwines intimacy of that first meeting with danger, a Very Queer Thing. Nam paints a dark line under his eye akin to Oh’s scar in homage to him. That’s right, I’m going full tinfoil here, this will DEFINITELY fit into my Grand Unified Gay Theory come hell or high water.

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says 'Commie' or 'bullet'.

A car with a diplomat flag on its hood appears in a scene.

Someone names a nation.

BIG DRINK

A flashback begins.

CGI(?) birds? Are birds real?

Song Kang-ho whistles.

#drinking games #jsa #park chan-wook #song kang-ho #lee young-ae #lee byung-hun #shin ha-kyun #kim tae-woo #korean cinema #drama #joint security area

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2015mai24 · 1 month

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Lee Byung-hun, actor

#lee byung-hun #arena homme+ dezember 2022 #scans

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3080ti · 2 years

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A Bittersweet Life (2005), dir. Kim Jee-woon

#a bittersweet life #kim jee woon #film #lee byung-hun #**

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andaniellight · 8 months

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something something i'd know you blind, i'd know you in death, at the end of the world something something

okay sorry I'm back again with my bullshit again with these two because I just noticed (from another watching session, again) this tiny little detail at the beginning where Hyunsoo first noticed Jaehyuk at the airport

Hyunsoo actually was checking his phone THE WHOLE. FUCKING TIME. HE'S WALKING ACROSS JAEHYUK.

He had his head down probably checking the weather, his schedule and other things on his phone !!!

He shouldn't be able to notice he's passing Jaehyuk with his daughter then, right??? Look at it. He kept looking down at his phone as Jaehyuk walked straight ahead, even as they're about to pass each other-

EVEN WHEN THEY'RE FINALLY PARALLELED..... side by side as they headed to different directions, Hyunsoo would NOT be able to KNOW it's Jaehyuk... the man should've only been a blur on the corner of his eye.......... and yet...................

HMMM................................................

HMMMMMMMMMMMM OKAY YEAH SURE.

Either way! There's no way in Hell Jaehyuk wasn't someone who's always been part of Hyunsoo's intense routine, someone SO important to Hyunsoo before he lost his wife, if he could recognize Jaehyuk by the blurry side profile alone in the crowd on his way to the one job that connected him to Jaehyuk, his dead wife, and everything in between

#grieving again thinking about the fight between them after the accident #mourning for that slow burn and slow build of them trying to mend everything together again #Emergency Declaration #Kim Namgil #비상선언 #Lee Byunghun #Kim Nam Gil #Lee Byung Hun #Kim Nam-gil #Lee Byung-hun

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k-star-holic · 10 months

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Lee Byung-hun Becomes Young Tak'..Um Tae-hwa Director "Lee Byung-hun Acting = Real Movie" (Concrete Utopia)

#Concrete Utopia #Lee Byung-hun #Utopia #Um Tae-hwa #Tae-hwa #Neighbor

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genkinahito · 4 months

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Concrete Utopia 콘크리트 유토피아 (2023) Director: Um Tae-hwa [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]

Concrete Utopia 콘크리트 유토피아 　「Konkeuriteu Yutopia」 Release Date: 2023 Duration: 130 mins. Director: Um Tae-hwa Writer: Um Tae-hwa, Lee Shin-ji (Screenplay), Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-joon, Park Bo-young, Kim Sun-young, Park Ji-hu, Kim Sum-young, IMDB Based on a webtoon called Cheerful Outcast, by Kim Sung-nyung, Concrete Utopia is a disaster movie freighted with social critique…