#kim ji-yong

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Nam Joo-hyuk as Kim Ji-yong in Vigilante 2023

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wait. what if ji-yong is not wearing a mask when he's the vigilante because his face card is so powerful that nobody would even believe he's the person murdering criminals and even if they did think he did they would fangirl over him anyways cos he's hot. cos collectively as a society people treat pretty people better and forgive them easier even when they commit crimes. in this essay i will -

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Decision to Leave (2022)

Director - Park Chan-wook, Cinematography - Kim Ji-yong

"The moment you said you loved me, your love is over. The moment your love ends, my love begins."

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DECISION TO LEAVE

헤어질 결심

Park Chan-Wook, 2022

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CINEMATOGRAPHY SPOTLIGHT:

Decision to Leave (2022) Director Park Chan-wook Cinematographer Kim Ji-yong Starring Tang Wei and Park Hae-il

Went on with most of my life not knowing—or wondering—what it must be like to look through a dead person's milky bloodshot eye. After this film, however, I can no longer purge this image from my mind.

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A Bittersweet Life (2005)

Directed by Kim Jee-woon

Cinematography by Kim Ji-yong

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헤어질 결심 - Decision to Leave (2022) / Cinematography by Kim Ji-yong

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CINEMATOGRAPHY

Shortlisted: The Eternal Daughter, Great Freedom, Hit the Road, Nope, Tár

THE NOMINEES ARE:

AFTERSUN

Cinematography by Gregory Oke

BONES AND ALL

Cinematography by Arseni Khachaturan

DECISION TO LEAVE

Cinematography by Kim Ji-yong

EO

Cinematography by Michal Dymek

AND THE CRISTAL GOES TO…

BLONDE

Cinematography by Chayse Irvin

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The Last Stand (2013) dir. Kim Jee-woon

Cinematography by Kim Ji-yong

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Decision To Leave

★★★☆☆ Sobresaliente en lo visual, pero bastante más convencional en lo argumental; este intrincado noir que deriva en romance tempestuoso supone una más que digna obra en la soberbia filmografía del surcoreano Park Chan-wook. Sin embargo, para el espectador curtido, la historia que aborda Decision To Leave (Heojil kyolshim), a lo largo de casi dos horas y veinte minutos está repleta de lugares…

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Why did you run? Because it`s thrilling.

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nothing prepared me for the man under the mask copying the og vigilante being a rich ceo and fanboy and sitting in his weird rich ass home with the avengers action models lined up on his desk in the background while he racing toy cars and making them drift.

and then he squealed when ji-yong texted him "let's meet". bro.

there is simping.

and then there is this.

i am gagged!

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Parasyte: The Grey

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Parasyte: The Grey (2024, South Korea)

Director: Yeon Sang Ho

Writers: Yeon Sang Ho & Ryu Yong Jae (based on the manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki)

Mini-review:

I enjoyed this way more than I expected. I was a pretty big fan of the anime that aired a decade ago, so I was worried about this adaptation. But that wasn't necessary: instead of making a simple live-action remake, they tried to approach the story from a different point of view, making sure it could coexist in the original manga's universe (as shown by the very last scene). That being said, this one doesn't delve too much into its themes, opting instead to focus on the horror and action elements. And damn, it does deliver. The action scenes make great use of the parasytes' "tentacles", and they're shot with some stunning camerawork. Yeon Sang Ho's directing fires on all cylinders, more than making up for the pretty mediocre CGI. It also helps that the cast does fantastic job. So yeah, Parasyte: The Grey might not be as deep as it could, but if you're in the mood for a thrilling horror-action spectacle, then you should give it a try.

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DECISION TO LEAVE

헤어질 결심

Park Chan-Wook, 2022

[...] Seo-rae is a Chinese woman who speaks Korean at an advanced, but not native level. Park could have inserted the occasional grammatical error into her speech, but he chose not to (in contrast to the text messages sent by her second husband in the latter part of the film, which are filled with typos to comic effect). Seo-rae's word choices are unexpected, and she speaks in a slightly archaic manner to express the fact that she learned much of her Korean by watching costume dramas on TV. The end result is dialogue that feels unusual, slightly awkward but highly expressive in its own way. I'm not sure if my translation fully captures this quality of her speech, but I tried my hardest, from the charmingly stilted (“In Korea, if a person you love gets married, does the love cease?”) to the weirdly poetic (“Because those bleeding photos are screaming wildly”).

Sometimes, discussions with the director are about what is added in translation, rather than what is lost. In one scene, Seo-rae speaks a line in Chinese to the neighborhood cat. Hae-joon records it on his phone, and runs it through a translation app which renders it as, "If you wish to give me a present, bring me the simjang of that kind detective." Simjang in Korean means “heart,” but in the sense of the bodily organ, rather than a metaphorical sense. Hae-joon is disturbed and a bit alarmed by this request, and later asks Seo-rae about it directly. She answers that it was a mistranslation; the Chinese word she spoke should be properly rendered as maeum (the metaphorical sense of the word “heart”). How does one capture all this in the English subtitles? As much as I liked the sound of the phrase, "Bring me the heart of that kind detective," it sounded too metaphorical, rather than the menacing undercurrent that the scene required. After a lengthy discussion, we decided that having the translation app confuse the words “head” and “heart” might be the least bad option. Thus the subtitle, "Bring me the head of that kind detective." "Everyone's going to think you’re referencing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," I said to Park. A long pause followed, before he answered, "Very well." (Park is, after all, a devoted Sam Peckinpah fan.)

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