Gangster High Special Edition (DVD) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
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numinair
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August 31, 2007
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August 31, 2007
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If there is a film that proves to me that vengeance is an emotion that leads to regretful tragedy, its showcased to a fine point in the finale here. About school rivalry and gang warfare set in the early Busan 90s, its an excessively violent movie and not for the gentle hearted. Brilliantly performed, excellently filmed and a palm sweating experience as you anticipate extreme confrontations by the introduction - you know its all going to get bad as one guy is banged up in prison for murder, just before the story flash backs to the events. I liked the opener, when a couple of feuding lads begin to fight on the school soccer field, only for Jae Gu (Tae Seong Lee) to step in and cool the situation as he recognizes all involved as numerous school friends in the past, and tells them to make up and be friends. They even, just after this point, sit around a quaint cafe table and sip tea together. (If you put this scene with the bloody last one, alongside each other, you would find it hard to believe they were from the same film). All these guys then decide to become the self named "Tigers", led by Sang Ho (Kyung Ho Jung - from "Herb") and a benign gang of high school chums that end up looking after each other's backs, after a none benign gang called East High, cross dangerous paths with them. A lot of the film is shot within alleyways, cafes, pool halls and outside places, than actual high school environments. Mainly, the story plot is simple - a gang of passive friends become embroiled into violence, after one of the group becomes romantically involved with the ex-girl friend of the East High leader. The violence here is certainly very rough, not the nastiest you will have seen in film, but certainly unpleasant enough not to be for all audiences. There are two nasty fight sequences near the middle and the end that wont leave your immediate conscience after watching. These are brutal and bloody confrontations that further the ante that came with "Once Upon a Time in High School", but, here, the blood letting results in pure vengeance and the bitter taste that succumbs just doesn't have the same sublimity and equal camaraderie of that classic movie. The main group, though, have very good charismatic appeal, especially between Sang Ho and Jae Gu, and are highly convincing survivors. But the psychotic level of the East High gang leader introduces a mania to this film making the 'special magic' that came with "Once Upon a ..." very absent here. No sweet music or romance this time. Its a much more colder and ferocious affair, where the fighting is concerned. In fact near the end, I found that there is a 'situation' that happens to one of the group that becomes fatal (and instigates the final 'bloody scene') that I think was an alternative scene, so to dampen a more violent episode worser than the final one. Even the final one is also dampened, somewhat, by phases to black and white and slow motion. There is a bit of romance where Hee Jin Jang as Su Hee, and the ex-girl friend of the East High gang leader, falls for Sang Ho, but unlike "Once Upon A .." or "He's So Cool" etc., the romance is so swamped by the metal male fight club mania that any romance offered in this becomes an absolute zero. Hee Jin is a pretty actress and reminded me a lot of Ji Hyun Jeon from "My Sassy Girl" The extras can be somewhat relieving. To watch all the contrasting humane and more familiar amiabilities that these actors have with each other, dampens and grounds your emotions after the bloody finale. A lot of the Making Of, too, is quite visual so that the subtitling omissions aren't that much of a problem. Good film, and from interesting director Ki Hyung Park who made "Whispering Corridors", but this time a more gritty and harsher viewing. Look out also, though, for Kyung Ho Jung in a romantic/supernatural film "For Eternal Hearts" coming soon where he appears with the ultra ex- school gal, Min Sun Kim (Memento Mori) which sounds good. |
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April 18, 2007
This customer review refers to Gangster High (VCD) (Korea Version)
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This movie is like every other Korean movie. And yet it pulls you in with the cute actors. The movie was very touching and the ending was sad but that just makes you want to watch it again and again. I recommend this movie!! |
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December 29, 2006
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Although this movie is like any other high school gang that is being bullied by classmates... this movie has a heart. Although the ending is sad, it showed how a gentle person can turned to be violent when is pushed to the limit. It's worth watching. |
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