You Are Beautiful

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You Are Beautiful is a South Korean tv show that I have watched and remember liking a lot so when it showed up on Netflix, I decided to rewatch just to see whether it was as good as I remembered and it was even better. I had forgotten most of the funny bits so I actually laughed out loud during and yeah it turned a bit melo towards the end but it is all good. I highly recommend this one since this secon time I actually had tears from laughing. 

The Secrets She Keeps

The Secrets She Keeps This one got an unfair listen due to my carelessness. After a few days I have started it Lethal White and Killing Commandatore came out and the start of it was two not really likable characters so I stopped it (I should never have started this knowing these will be coming out soon, especially when I have two short story collections to listen). Anyway I have come back to this but still was not happy with it. Eventually the plot took a different turn and I have started to get interested and at the end I was satisfied despite not really emotionally invested. The story telling is good and the reader is excellent, this is one of the books worth purchasing as audio if you like that medium.

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This novel ended up being about child abduction and being a woman who was never really interested in motherhood I did not get to feel about the characters that much.

Made of Honor

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Made of Honor oh God I can't believe I watched this stupid film again. I probably want to see whether it is as bad as I remembered and yes, it was. Just do yourselves a favour and skip this one. 

Illang: The Wolf Brigade

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Illrang: The Wolf Brigade well as I was looking imdb for photos I have seen that this film is directed by Kim Jee Won and am kind of shocked. Ok I saw this on Netflix and of course I was going to give it a go because it looked good, starred actors I liked and is South Korean. It kind of reminded me of Jin Roh: the Wolf Brigade but I only remember the red eyes from that one. Anyway I started to watch it and quickly realised that it is a miss on almost all counts except action scenes which were really really good and kind of wasted on this film. KDW and HHJ are two great looking people but the cinematography showed them with oily skin and JWS is one handsome dude but is made up having bad skin - the make up artist did a good job-. The story is a dystopia that could have been wonderful and there is a love story of sorts (a theme KJW liked, platonically loving a woman and this makes your life complicated) and twists and turns but the antagonist is acted by someone who constantly over acted (Kim Mu Yeol) and that kind of put everything off. The two pretty leads who actually can act very very well are misdirected and shot to look awful (both acting and looks) and the costumes were so bad that these two looked ridiculous.

Anyway it is possible to enjoy this film just by watching the two main action scenes 1- Namsan Tower with guns and martial arts combo followed by car chase of sorts,  2- Trap in the tunnel action with lots and lots and lots of gun fights. Other than these two you can skip it without problems 

Phantom Thread

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Phantom Thread turned out to be even better than I imagined it to be. I want to use the term masterpiece actually and only hesitate because I didn't felt so much for the story as much as I did for the art. Firstly this film has no flaws. Literally everything in it is perfect. The acting is top notch with Daniel Day-Lewis being so good that you forget to admire his performance. The two leading ladies both are a good match for him and the costumes, the music, the cinematography, the script, the sets, the props, oh my God I was in awe. Highly recommended for the lovers of cinema. 

Hereditary

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Hereditary  well I have discovered the itunes films section and decided to use it this weekend (since I was consumed by Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim during the week) well the process was a success but I didn't really liked this film. Well the things I liked were the clean, uncluttered cinematography with a lot of close up shots enriched by the set design that allows intentional perspective misconseptions, then I liked the fact that the lead actress looks her age without cosmetic support, she has wrinkles and is not afraid to show them. There were some unsettling moments in the beginning but they quickly lost the scare factor as used more often than it is good for. The acting is all good.

The real problem for me was the script, unnecessarily convoluted at first and then unnecessarily explanatory in the end. It just was not scary. 

Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim

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Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim only got me interested because I remember reading that it was a huge hit and I also recently watched Yoo Yeung Seok being crowned as Kissing King after this drama. Well I think I also like medical dramas. Anyway this one was as good as The Good Doctor. I have loved every episode and would probably binge watch if I was not going to work during the week. The plot, the script, the acting all were excellent and yes Yoo Yeon Seok fully deserves the title since there were only two kissing scenes (one in the first episode and one in the one before last I think) but especially the last one is worthy of two drama worth of kisses.