The opening credit sequence gives away the heart of the story away, but does not of course, gives away the structure or the journey of the story.
You got to admire how far the S.Korea movie industry (in fact everything form electronics, cars, TV drama, to movies ..etc) has come within last 5-10 years. They had a good base of directors and technicians, and keeps on turning out more.
You see the way most of the dialogue between the 2 main leads is carried out in a different way. Facing the camera, like they are talking to you. It mixes me up. At times you are looking in their eyes reacting to the moment. At times, it is kind of distracting, taking you out of the movie.
Yet the plot, progression and character built up is the ride of this movie. Piece by piece, clue by clue, the journey builds. Even though it's a basic copy buddy movie, it's not a pair you see. A male and a female pair in an Korean setting. And yet this is a smoke screen. The main lead is the female, as she gets stronger, tougher, more determined, even though she is out numbered most of the time, even when she is with her team. She is the smarter one, the more intuitive one, an surprisingly, the more gutsy one.
** spoiler *** The identification with the wolf is what makes this different or fantastical almost. In a lone, loyal, sentimental animal you see the feelings, tragedy behind the case. And it's heartbreaking to force the hand at the end. It is the with repressed emotion that leads the traffic cop is able to solve the case, and it is with full release of this that she needs to end the case. But she can not. What a heart breaking ending. But she forever remembers the night she ran with the wolf.
You got to admire how far the S.Korea movie industry (in fact everything form electronics, cars, TV drama, to movies ..etc) has come within last 5-10 years. They had a good base of directors and technicians, and keeps on turning out more.
You see the way most of the dialogue between the 2 main leads is carried out in a different way. Facing the camera, like they are talking to you. It mixes me up. At times you are looking in their eyes reacting to the moment. At times, it is kind of distracting, taking you out of the movie.
Yet the plot, progression and character built up is the ride of this movie. Piece by piece, clue by clue, the journey builds. Even though it's a basic copy buddy movie, it's not a pair you see. A male and a female pair in an Korean setting. And yet this is a smoke screen. The main lead is the female, as she gets stronger, tougher, more determined, even though she is out numbered most of the time, even when she is with her team. She is the smarter one, the more intuitive one, an surprisingly, the more gutsy one.
** spoiler *** The identification with the wolf is what makes this different or fantastical almost. In a lone, loyal, sentimental animal you see the feelings, tragedy behind the case. And it's heartbreaking to force the hand at the end. It is the with repressed emotion that leads the traffic cop is able to solve the case, and it is with full release of this that she needs to end the case. But she can not. What a heart breaking ending. But she forever remembers the night she ran with the wolf.