The Host (2006)
IT LOOKS MONSTER PANIC FILM BUT...
20 October 2022
I KNEW BUT I WAS SURPRISED BONG JOON-HO'S SKILLS OF MAKING FILMS. THIS FILM LOOKED A MONSTER FILM BUT INCLUDED SOUTH KOREAN SOCIAL ISSUES FROM THE TIME TO NOW EX. POLLUTION, THE WEALTH GAP, THE SCARCITY OF EMPLOYMENT, MERITOCRACY AND ABUSES OF PUBLIC POWER.

THE CUT OF A BURNING FLAG REMINDED ME THE LAST CUT OF 'JURASSIC PARK', IT MEANS THIS FILM COULD END THAT CUT BUT BONG ROOM-HO DIDN'T FINISH IT THERE. HE PUT AN ODD EPILOGUE. GANG-DOO DIDN'T CHANGE HIMSELF EVEN AFTER THE INCIDENT, OR I COULD SAY HE COULDN'T AND HE WAS LEFT BEHIND AT THE BANK ALONE.

I NEVER GOT BORED BECAUSE OF ACTING BY SONG KANG-HO, PARK HAE-IL AND BYUN HEE-BONG. I HAD NEVER SEEN BAE DOONA AND I LIKE HER WHO DIDN'T SHOW WHAT SHE THOUGHT. DOING ARCHERY WITH FIRE OF CLIMAX WAS SO COOL. KO SUNG WHO ACTED HYUN-SEO WAS SMART, BRAVE, CUTE AND GREAT.

A HEAD OF A BOAR ON THE WALL IN A SMALL ROOM WAS SCARY. THE CAMERA WORKS OF THE FIRST ATTACK SCENE WAS AMAZING. THE CUT OF HANDS WAS GREAT. WHILE THE MONSTER WAS ASLEEP, HYUN-SO TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT SHE SUDDENLY STOPED CLIMBING AND SHE RELEASED HER HOLD OF THE ROPE BUT SHE DIDN'T FALL BECAUSE... THE VISUAL OF THE MONSTER WAS REALLY CREEPY. I HATE THE SCENE OF THE MONSTER THROWING UP SKULLS AND SKELETONS AND I COULDN'T STOP SCREAMING.
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