Thursday, April 05, 2007

doing my part for free speech

I decided to do my part in the controversy over violence and endorse free speech by spending my money on a Korean monster movie called The Host. (It was subtitled.) The plot of the movie revolved around one family that decides to sneak past government blockades to find the youngest, who was taken alive by the monster. Unlike most monster movies, you actually got a good look at the monster, which was incredibly animated. The movie also defied a lot of the horror formulas. For example, when the characters split up they didn't automatically die, and the characters that you expected to die lived, and vice versa. Plus, it had a great sense of humor, sometimes in a perverse sort of way, like when the monster completely ran over this girl who was quietly studying and listening to classical music, which I can definitely say ruined the mood. They were kind of harsh on the U.S. though. The whole reason that the monster even existed was because an American ordered that formaldehyde be poured down the drain, which emptied into the river and lead to the mutated monster. People from the U.S. also made the situation worse in a lot of other ways, which I can't say because it would spoil the movie. But it was definitely a very clever movie that I can guarantee will make you laugh out loud more than once. Plus it has an unexpected ending.

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