The Jugeulrae Salrae

[Sean Furman]

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Original Title: Jugeulrae Salrae

Genge: Action,Comedy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some things in life just shouldn't be made fun of no matter the means of delivery: sexual abuse, rape, and beating up old women. And trust me, the delivery is god-awful. The dialogue is so bad that it doesn't even measure up as a way to get more exposure to the Korean language (my original purpose for renting this movie), unless you want to end up speaking Korean like a complete fool. I'll just summarize what appears to be the plot so you can be spared of the misery.

SPOILERS (as if there is any joy to be spoiled...but anyway)

The main character, Lee So-Ryong, is a Chinese restaurant delivery boy who aspires to be the next Bruce Lee. He trains every night in front of a TV playing Bruce Lee clips to avenge the death of his father.

He falls in love with a Chinese-Korean immigrant, Jang OK-Ran, from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. OK-Ran wants to become a hair stylist, but is fired from her salon assistantship for illicitly cutting hair without supervision. A local gangster notices her plight and offers her a shot at "stardom." The promise of fame is actually a scam where the gangster strips his "pupils" of their money and virginity, while subjecting them to harsh "discipline" and grueling "acting lessons." The final blow to OK-Ran comes when the gangster steals her hard-earned money after a drunken rape session. When she later confronts him, the gangster and his cronies beat her up in broad daylight in front of an ogling crowd. So-Ryong notices the commotion and tries to save her, but only succeeds in drawing the ire of the gang. This sequence repeats itself a few times. Somehow, So-Ryong finally saves up enough money to send OK-Ran back home to her parents.

Meanwhile, the gang, headed by the man who murdered So-Ryong's father, then goes on a campaign to crush opposition to redevelopment projects in the area. They beat up protesting locals, in which scene we get to see the aforementioned bloodied old women. By the end of the movie, So-Ryong finds his inner strength as bestowed by the spirit of Bruce Lee and proceeds to beat up all the gangsters, including the one who raped OK-Ran.

Yet, we never see So-Ryong avenge his father's death. No emotional catharsis. No laughs, no resolution. In short, I want my hour and 30 mins back. First of all, I don't understand why they wanted to film that tragedy, to show that in Korea they have underworld too??? I simply don't see the point in offending everyone with director's or script writer's sexual obsessions. What do they wanted to communicate us? Simply nothing, just show some rubbish about some world we never have seen and wouldn't have much opportunity to see. Mixing up Bruce Lee into all this is just too much to bear it. What kind of film it supposed to be? Soft-porn?, non-sense criminal failure or maybe something else, who knows what sits in heads of some mistakenly-become-directors people. Just hope you won't be exposed to such kind of trash, really it is no fun watching things that are wrong from the beginn