i can haz blog?

Hello ^.^ well this is my first post on my A/S film studies blog. We've been told to create this to sum-up our case study of a hollywood film but i'll probably get down to that in a week or two. Firstly i'll just start off with film clips i like, suggestions of movies which i love and it may sound self-righteous to a certain degree but hey, its just a blog. also as this is online and has a kind of social networking feel to it (in my opinion anyway) I'll probably be pretty informal in the way i speak in my posts, but we'll see as the year progresses aye, you never know what could happen. I've only had this for an hour and i've got the hang of it, wicked wicked wicked.

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance



Well to start off i'm gonna waffle on about one of my favourite films! I'll post three sequences of it here when i find them on youtube for you to watch and marvel at it's brilliance. It's a south Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook, and it's the third in a trilogy of films that he made about revenge. It's predecessors being "Sympathy For Mr Vengeance" and "Oldboy". I haven't seen either of those yet but i'll get round to it one day. The film opens with the seemingly kind hearted Ms Geum Ja being released after a long prison sentence for the kidnapping and murder of a six year old boy. In the subsequent story we learn of how she came to be imprisoned for a crime which she did not commit, and how she made a name for herself during her lengthy prison stay. Overall i think that this film is absolutely beautiful because of it's style. Brilliant re-mastered vivaldi tracks played over scenes which are shot and edited in a way that just makes me go WOW =| having watched this film over six times and still not getting bored somewhat speaks for itself as i am not easy to please. I do find it weird though as alot of this movie has nice quick editing in it, yet in some parts such as when Geum-ja searches through Me Baeks house, and when she's interviewed during herflashback. the camera just sits there far away from it watching with no interaction, but that was probably to break up the fast pace in certain bits, or maybe im just abit over-enthusiatic.



I think that an element of confusion this movie is the similarity in the asian actresses in the first half of the film; having watched it the first time i was confused as to who was who i have to admit =[ which makes me sound ignorant but im really really not. Also the fact that it's subtitled made it harder to identify who was who, but maybe that was just me.

but i'm going to leave you with three videos :D which i hope you enjoy, firstly the opening title sequence:






beautiful isnt it ;D


and here is just a scene which i hope will make you LOL
it's abit ermm graphic so viewer discretion is advised, but imagine of you was in that poor girls position!





and thirdly, my favourite scene of the movie in which Geum-Ja attempts to reconcile with her daughter, i did an essay on this sequence so i'll re-edit this soon and add abit of an analysis on here, enjoy:





tomorrow or later on tonight  im gonna write some stuff about our short film and what we've done so far/ our influences and i'll write about a  film called "get real"
LATERZ

thats my first post done! woooo