Haven’t seen the movie yet, but the comments Hans makes to the couple—about how the can never really be fully integrated despite their cultural efforts and genuine commitments, sounds exactly like something one of my Korean (not Korean-American, btw) friends told me back around 2011.
I was asking him if a white person were born in Korea, only spoke the language, did the mandatory military service, etc, would the white dude be accepted as Korean? My friend, a chud but a sharp one, said no way, they have to be of the same race to count.
Blew my sweet little college-educated mind at the time but was the first time I realized that white Americans were pretty out of line with most cultures’ take on race.
Sounds interesting. Korean cinema can be pretty good since they’re not held back by the same stupid woke standards of Hollywood. They can approach topics with some level of honesty. Even when they try to be progressive, it still feels charming and fresh.
My points of reference here are Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Kingdom. The first is a comedy about an autistic woman who’s a master of law and the second is about medieval Korea undergoing a zombie apocalypse. Well developed characters, good pacing, and some interesting questions posed.
I never got into the Squid Game stuff. Just seemed too much like torture porn. I always liked the reviews and commentary from it though.
Korea right now is going through some upheaval because of its drastically low birth rate and sexually polarize politics. I wonder if the movie you’re discussing is an indirect way to address the problems. After all, they’ll need to either start reproducing a lot more or take in immigrants. Otherwise, they’ll just age and die and be taken over by robots and weird white hicks.
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Haven’t seen the movie yet, but the comments Hans makes to the couple—about how the can never really be fully integrated despite their cultural efforts and genuine commitments, sounds exactly like something one of my Korean (not Korean-American, btw) friends told me back around 2011.
I was asking him if a white person were born in Korea, only spoke the language, did the mandatory military service, etc, would the white dude be accepted as Korean? My friend, a chud but a sharp one, said no way, they have to be of the same race to count.
Blew my sweet little college-educated mind at the time but was the first time I realized that white Americans were pretty out of line with most cultures’ take on race.
Sounds interesting. Korean cinema can be pretty good since they’re not held back by the same stupid woke standards of Hollywood. They can approach topics with some level of honesty. Even when they try to be progressive, it still feels charming and fresh.
My points of reference here are Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Kingdom. The first is a comedy about an autistic woman who’s a master of law and the second is about medieval Korea undergoing a zombie apocalypse. Well developed characters, good pacing, and some interesting questions posed.
I never got into the Squid Game stuff. Just seemed too much like torture porn. I always liked the reviews and commentary from it though.
Korea right now is going through some upheaval because of its drastically low birth rate and sexually polarize politics. I wonder if the movie you’re discussing is an indirect way to address the problems. After all, they’ll need to either start reproducing a lot more or take in immigrants. Otherwise, they’ll just age and die and be taken over by robots and weird white hicks.