![]() ![]() These scenes are a joy to behold, sharply choreographed and violent to the point of being over the top, the transition to Seung-won’s woes over his identity crisis should be laughable against such a backdrop of machismo. He takes them down one by one in a flurry of kicks and punches (and umbrellas) to the face, before the scene comes to an end and the gangster wistfully recalls that he didn’t get a single drop of rain on him. In the flashback Seung-won stands in a rain drenched street holding an umbrella, as a horde of umbrella wielding attackers charge towards him, everyone dressed in sharp black suites. In another scene one of the gangster brothers dreamily recalls the first time he encountered him. Seung-won is essentially a one-man army, an army that even the gangsters admire. It’s a brutally choreographed sequence, one which has blood spraying everywhere and a massive amount of pain being dished out, but it also establishes the almost hyper reality that the movie sets itself in. ![]() Within the first 10 minutes he’s single handedly raided a karaoke room, seating 11 armed gangsters, in a scene which will make you realize that the carcasses of recently eaten crabs and lobsters can make just as effective weapons as knives and daggers. We’re introduced to his character as the epitome of masculinity – he never uses a gun, his body is covered in scars, he has steel pins in his arms and legs, to his colleagues he’s a cyborg, to criminals he’s a legend – basically, someone who doesn’t have an ounce of femininity in him. The challenge of portraying such a character is given to Cha Seung-won, who rises up to the part with aplomb. The above description may sound like the setup for another quirky take on a well established genre, but surprisingly, Jin boldly decides to play the whole thing completely straight (no pun intended). With Man on High Heels, we get a typical tale of a cop on the tail of a pair of gangster brothers, however what’s not so typical, is that the cop in question secretly harbors the desire to be a woman. Jin is a prolific director who’s worked in various genres, but to western audiences the title which will likely be most familiar is 2001’s Guns and Talks, which featured a young Won Bin in a quirky tale of four hitmen living together. While for many this might be all that’s needed, for those who long for a slightly different angle, director and writer Jang Jin looks to be delivering just that with his latest offering – Man on High Heels. ![]() Ever since Korean cinema gained international recognition in the late 90’s, every year we can be guaranteed a hard hitting slice of gangster violence and bloody backstabbing. In many ways the gangster genre is to the Korean movie industry what the heroic bloodshed genre was to the Hong Kong movie industry of the 90’s. '.“Man on High Heels” Korean Theatrical PosterĬast: Cha Seung-Won, Oh Jeong-Se, Lee Som, Go Kyung-Pyo, Shin Sung-Hun, Jo Bok-Rae Removing any part of the quantum chemistry stuff would make the program not compile (i do not know how to use make) so umm yeah it's a big mess but it works i guess usage Luckily i had a copy of my bachelors thesis code on my laptop, and i managed to make a fork of this quantum chemistry program that now also fixes messed up subtitle files (seriously, given a pen and paper i couldn't write a hello world that compiles, that's how bad i am at writing computer programs) Now the problem is that i do not know how to write computer programs and i had decided that i wouldn't use the internet that day (had had a shitty week at work and needed to wind down) so i couldn't just copy paste stuff from stackexchange Now the english one had the stime stamps all messed up, like they started at 1h 30 minutes and i couldn't bother trying to fix it in mpv so i decided to write a computer program that would scrape the correct time stamps off the portugese file and slam them on the english file So this torrent of "ashes of time" by wong kar-wai i had downloaded had a portugese sub file and an english sub file ![]()
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