#Lee Eol

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Chukje (Festival) - dir. Im Kwon-taek (1996)

Full movie available on Korean Classic Films YouTube channel

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February Book Reviews: A Flame in the North by Lilith Saintcrow

Picked this new release up because I've found Saintcrow's books engaging in the past. Solveig has a respected position in her father's hall as one of the most powerful magic users seen in generations. But when her brother impulsively kills a man in a brawl, she's sent north with the dead man's kin as a weregild tribute in recompense. As Solveig travels northward, she begins to realize that the Northerners are not who they seem-- and legends she's heard about the evil that lurks there are more than stories.

Saintcrow does an excellent job of establishing Solveig's Norse-inspired home. It's obvious that she's done research into the material reality of the period, which makes for a much more engaging setting than tacking some (inaccurate) horned helmets onto things and calling it a day. The prose is in a high-formal, faux archaic style which personally I enjoy, but some people might find grating.

Where this book fell a little short for me was the pacing. For a hefty four hundred fifty pages, this book does little more than introduce the basic premise before ending on a cliffhanger with little to no plot threads resolved. It takes a hundred pages to cover the initial setup I summarized in two sentences above-- Solveig being sent north as weregild. The slow pacing is exacerbated by Solveig's essentially passive position in the plot. It's an understandable decision based on her situation and reverence for the rules that govern a weregild's behavior-- but it also means that Solveig could be effectively replaced by a very important suitcase for most of the story without changing the plot.

One further side note and caveat about this book. While the first half of the book had worldbuilding I enjoyed, the second half of the book abruptly entered a narrative where every single backstory was cribbed directly from Tolkien's Silmarillion. I don't mean it vaguely resembled the Silmarillion, with a shadowy big bad and orcs and elves. I mean Saintcrow presented the reader with sentences of plot taken directly from it, with only some token name changes. A representative but not exhaustive list of examples: The theft of the Silmarils and the Oath of Feanor

Of Faevril's works he spoke, many works of seidhr wrought by an Elder alkuine's hands in the uttermost West. Of how the Enemy, granted grace and lee to repair damage he had previously wreaked, betrayed that ruth with the murder of Faevril's father and the theft of many great works, as well as a crime so dark the Elder do not speak of it, dimming the light of their home well before Moon or Sun arose. Of Faevril's sons and the vengeance they swore with their wrathful father did Eol speak...

The romance of Beren and Luthien and the recovery of one of the Silmarils from Morgoth

"Whatever he told you was only in service to finding what Bjornwulf and Lithielle won at great cost. He and his brother will slay any who seek to keep the Freed Jewel from them, even their kin-- that is their oath...

Nithraen is a hidden elven cave city that fell in an attack involving a dragon-- which is, of course, the story of Turin Turambar and the fall of Nargothrond.

Aeredh clasped the tall man's shoulder, and it looked like he was delivering even worse tidings than Nithraen's fall, for that was the only time I saw Tarit son of Hajithe pale and almost stagger. The songs say he lost a loved one in the cataclysm, an Elder maid...

An interesting beginning and a standout execution, but I don't think I'll be reading the sequel when it comes out in July. If I wanted to know what happens I would just reread the Silmarillion.

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"The only thing my dad did for me was read me a fairy tale book just once. He may have only done it just once, but I can't never forget that."

[may8chan]

Samaritan Girl - Kim Ki Duk 2004

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THE 8th NIGHT (2021) ★★★☆☆

THE 8th NIGHT (2021) ★★★☆☆

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Live (2018)

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Samaria // 사마리아 (2004) Directed by Kim Ki-duk // 김기덕

Yeo-jin and Jae-young, high school girls, are dating men they met during online chats in order to save money for a trip to Europe. Yeo-jin chats with the men and calls them to make an appointment and Jae-young meets the men at motels. Yeo-jin puts makeup on Jae-young before she meeting the men, and waits outside the motels for her friend to finish. Jae-young never loses her smile even though she has sex with strangers which Yeo-jin cannot understand. Furthermore, Yeo-Jin becomes increasingly frustrated as to why her friend gives meaning to the sex she has with the men. As far as Yeo-jin is concerned, all men who pay for the bodies of young high school girls are dirty and filthy. Then one day, while meeting a man at a motel, Jae-young jumps out of the window to escape the police who suddenly show up at a motel room she is in, and she is fatally injured. Shocked by Jae-young's death, Yeo-jin visits the men in Jae-young's notebook one after another, and to console herself of Jae-young's death, she dates men instead of Jae-young. Yeo-jin returns the money that Jae-young had received and little by little, she along with all of the men, begin to feel at peace. Like India's Vasumitra, who led men to devout Buddhists after giving herself to them, Yeo-jin also brings awareness to the men who she has relationships with, one by one. Detective Young-ki, while on a case, looks out of the window and sees an unsettling sight in a motel room opposite. Unable to believe what he witnessed he waits outside to see his daughter, Yeo-jin, leave the motel with a man. For Yeong-gi, who has lived without a wife and has only one daughter, the prostitution of his daughter comes as a huge shock, so he starts following Yeo-Jin and approaches all of the men who have met with her...

유럽 여행 갈 돈을 모으기 위해 채팅에서 만난 남자들과 원조교제를 하는 여고생 여진과 재영. 여진이 재영인 척 남자들과 채팅을 하고 전화를 걸어 약속을 잡으면, 재영이 모텔에서 남자들과 만나 원조교제를 한다. 여진은 재영이 남자들을 만나기 전 화장을 해주고, 그녀가 남자들을 만나고 있는 동안 밖에서 기다린다. 낯 모르는 남자들과 만나 섹스를 하면서도 항상 웃음을 잃지 않는 재영. 여진은 남자들과의 만남과 섹스의 의미를 부여하는 재영을 이해 할 수가 없다. 여진에게 어린 여고생들의 몸을 돈을 주고 사는 남자들은 모두 더럽고 불결한 존재일 뿐이다. 그러던 어느 날, 모텔에서 남자와 만나던 재영은 갑자기 들이닥친 경찰들을 피해 창문에서 뛰어 내려 여진의 눈 앞에서 죽게 된다. 재영의 죽음에 커다란 충격을 받은 여진은 재영의 죽음을 위로하기 위해 재영의 수첩의 적혀 있는 남자들을 차례로 찾아간다. 재영 대신 남자들과 원조교제를 하는 여진. 원조 교제 후 재영이 전에 받았던 돈을 여진이 차례로 돌려주자 남자들은 오히려 평안을 얻게 된다. 남자들과의 남자리 이후 남자들을 독실한 불교 신자로 이끌었던 인도의 바수밀다와 같이 여진 또한 관계를 맺은 남자들을 차례로 정화해 나간다. 사건 현장에 나갔다가 우연히 옆 모텔을 보게 된 형사 영기 (이얼 분)는 모텔에서 남자와 함께 나오는 여자가 자신의 딸 여진임을 알게 된다. 아내 없이 오직 하나뿐인 딸만을 바라보며 살아온 영기에게 딸의 매춘은 엄청난 충격으로 다가오고, 이후 영기는 계속해서 여진을 미행하기 시작한다. 하루하루 남자들을 만나는 여진을 미행하던 영기는 여진과 만나는 남자들에게 접근하기 시작하는데...

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Poster cast of 와이키키 브라더스 / Waikiki Brothers (2001):

이얼 / Lee Eol as 성우 / Seong-u

황정민 / Hwang Jung-min as 강수 / Gangsu

박원상 / Park Won-sang as 정석 / Jeongseok

오지혜 / Oh Ji-hye as 인희 / Inhui

류승범 / Ryoo Seung-bum as 기태 / Gitae

오광록 / Oh Kwang-rok as 현구 / Hyeon-gu

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"Live" Brings In High Viewership Ratings With Its Portrayal Of The Emotions Police Must Overcome

“Live” Brings In High Viewership Ratings With Its Portrayal Of The Emotions Police Must Overcome

Police drama “Live” has been touching hearts with its busy yet warm stories of the policemen of the Hongil Patrol Division. However, things took a more serious, saddening turn in the most recent episode.

The April 29 episode of tvN’s “Live” achieved average nationwide viewership ratings of 7 percent and peak viewership ratings at 7.9 percent. For viewers in their 20s to 40s, widely considered the…

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Resenha: Live 라이브 (K-Drama)

Resenha: Live 라이브 (K-Drama)

A resenha e recomendação de hoje é um sobre um drama policial imperdível! (more…)

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"But now the trees of Nan Elmoth were the tallest and darkest in all Beleriand, and there the sun never came; and there Eol dwelt, who was named the Dark Elf...There he lived in deep shadow loving the night and the twilight under the stars." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

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Goodbye in law

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The Last Princess (2016)

덕혜옹주 The Last Princess (2016) screenplay by Hur Jin-ho, Lee Han-eol, and Seo Yoo-min directed by Hur Jin-Ho based on Princess Deokhye by Kwon Bi-young

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Live Tvn (2018)