The short, Shirley, explores a much more contained event, and the feature certainly takes some of those ideas and amplifies them. It’s kinetic personality and cinematography that stays vérité for the majority of the film really bring what it’s genre needs to stand out from the rest. P.S. However, I felt the 85min runtime was not enough to fully sell the satisfying ending.I had trouble coming to terms with the movie because of the so-called Joker effect- are we normalizing horrible actions by empathizing with the broken white man behind it? “The Beast” screened at Fantasy Filmfest – White Nights 2020. After his films “Broken” and “Bestseller”, Korean filmmaker Jung-ho Lee has directed a remake, or rather re-imagination of the French thriller “36th Precinct” by Olivier Marchal.
While there are certain similarities between the two titles, Lee has made quite a different film within the specific cultural background of his home country. Far beyond and better than what I expected. Built to a couple great moments of tension. In the end, I hope to pass on my joy of watching film and talking about it.Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. A great story that had me feeling, guessing, and clinging to the edge of my seat the entire time.Really well shot. You literally can’t pull this man away from that uniform.danny madden created a masterpiece driven by the beautiful shirley chen and we are LUCKY to have this movie, perfect in every wayalso that red head gay kid is so funny and cute i love himI had some issues with the third act but I'm eager to see what this director does next. Felt super natural.Saw this at Sundance not knowing that it was a feature version of a short film I had seen on the internet a few months prior. But Beast Beast juggles them quite nicely. It’s stylized and really well done.A perfect coming of age story intertwined with romance, friendship, and the ever-present, high school need-to-be-liked. The Beast is a visual splendor for the modernist new wave of South Korean noirs that lacks a distinction when set amongst other thrillers of this genre such as Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2003), A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2006) and I Saw the Devil (Jee-woon, 2011). Within its police force, Unit One and Unit Two might work together on paper, but given the possibility of a promotion to the position of chief, detectives Jeong Han-Soo (Sung-min Lee) and Han Min-Tae (Jae-myung Yoo) encourage their teams not only to investigate but to actively work against the other unit.
In the end, “The Beast” remains a solid entry into the genre of the cop thriller, suffering from flaws which sadly seem to have become common practice in Korean genre cinema.
Beast Beast is a small film with an especially energetic heart. Similar to such great genre entries like Na Hong-jin’s “However, there is a foundation to this corruption which lies within the system Jung-ho Lee portrays. A lot of stories that try to juggle multiple plots at once easily become convoluted. ... resulting in a rather sluggish pace which hurts the overall impact of the film. MUST WATCH MUST WATCH MUST WATCH Not joking when I say this was the best theatrical experience of my life.This is impressive on so many fronts. Taking its rightful place at the very beginning of the 2020 festival circuit, the Sundance Film Festival is often an unpredictable beast. While there are certainly several beasts unleashed within the running time of Jung-ho Lee’s movie, the one which leaves the most lasting impression is the image of the city of Incheon. I need to revisit it.I loved the short and I loved this feature even more. The modern metropolis with its skyscrapers, its traffic and people serves as the suitable symbol for an entity able to change its behavioral patterns from seemingly harmless to dark, brutal and bloodthirsty. Three interwoven stories of youths navigating identity, first love, petty crime, and gun violence in a southern American town.BEAST BEAST is predictable & offensive in how it handles gun issues within this country. Update…Every 2020 film viewed.
It didn’t set itself up with much beforehand.There was an element of predictability for me which was “hm... how are the two characters going to intersect with the third character oooohhhhhh”The inability to see right from wrong, healthy from unhealthy, cool from pathetic — dichotomies that are too-often blurred in American life — are blurred further by the dangerous commingling of a love-affair with firearms, the advent of self-editing and a rapidly domineering obsession with the concept of the public self.Director Danny Madden's skillful juxtaposition of untouchable moments of youth (there’s a scene that contains some of the most achingly innocent performances I’ve ever seen), and the cringing flounder of poor decisions come to a boil in an all-too-familiar stew of American incapacity.Many recent films have tried to approach themes of gun violence and media in America — the consensus narrative too often…BEAST BEAST IS FUCKING PERFECT. But this movie takes the emotion and intentions captured in the short and explores them to an explosion of ideas, performances, and…When I’m telling you all my theater gasped, they GASPED. 2020 Sundance Film Festival will begin on Thursday, 23 January and ends on Sunday, 2 February. I think it's interesting to watch and I really did enjoy the performances that were given throughout. It was simply a raw look into life and age, and it was up to us to take away whatever we chose to from the movie.Seriously in need of a breather after that final act, how intense. Following a series of brutal murders of young women, the Incheon police department is under public pressure to quickly apprehend whoever is responsible.