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The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Taiwan Version) DVD Region 3

Lee Eun Joo (Actor) | Han Suk Kyu (Actor) | Sung Hyun Ah (Actor) | Uhm Ji Won (Actor)
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The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Taiwan Version)
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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7.5 out of 10 (13)

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cuddley bear
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September 28, 2009

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
clever script Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
I wrote a very bad review three years ago. Then I heard that one of the main female characters committed sucide because she couldn't get herself out of the role. That was when I decided to watch again. Second time round I had a complete different view. Perhaps I was very confused with the girls who all look alike the first time I watched. Once you sorted out who's who, you will begin the appreciate all the clever twists and it will leave you speechless towards the end. So just get yourself a copy and sit back to enjoy this sort of brilliant film.
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numinair
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July 25, 2007

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version)
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 A Scar-let 'Car Crash' Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
An interesting thing I read on a web site (although I couldn't cross reference this), was that due to Eun Joo Lee having anxieties about the singing of the Corr's song "Only When I Sleep" which features in the night club scene in the movie, her close friend Bada had helped her with her interpretation of the song and even attended on set to give her solid support when she finally came to shooting the scenes - as Eun Joo was quite nervous about having the exposure of singing like this and got support from Bada. And sing well and perform excellently she did, not only with the song, but with the performance of her character as a whole. But with Bada, that was one really positive and wonderful thing to read about and shone a light on, so to speak, this unfairly merited movie, due to the tragedy regarding Eun Joo's death and this film's possible influence.

I do like Eun Joo so much and, I admit, considering her loss and this movie's relation to that loss, I could at times want to smack it, but I still think that its so unfair for this film to be thought negatively, such that it has been. Its unfair on the other people who helped make it - Daniel H. Byun, Suk Kyu Han, Hyun Ah Seong, Ji Won Eon and everybody really - and I am sure that this film isn't on its own a causation of EJL's death. Eun Joo apparently couldn't come out of her character role and, in hindsight, wasn't exactly happy with it, but her insomnia and depression wouldn't have been due to a negative character persona alone, more a commixture of stresses and frustrations of not being able focus on her career (she didn't want to enter into anything other than films, really) and couldn't feel she could move on - it was her indecision in the main.

The movie is strong and hard though. When I first saw Suk Kyu in the opening scene as the police captain driving hastily along listening to the operatic aria by Verdi (from "The Force of Destiny") and the impactive abrasion of his brittle character has as he drives angrily towards a murder scene, I anticipated all this to be one extreme ride also in a metaphorical sense, that his life and the lives of the other protagonists in "TSL" were going to 'crash' disastrously by all their actions - and with an unforgettable consequences at the finish. Its a dark thriller with a focus on highly emotional and destructively charged characters, crossing social and forbidden emotional barriers. Ki Hoon is married but as an affair with a night club singer Ka Hee (Eun Joo) and both become pregnant by him. Its all a commixture of affairs in a dark ambiance of deceit, lies, jealousies and adultery, but in ultra self destructive impassioned sexual relations. It is a police procedural drama, too, but only as a back drop to the partial character study of Ki Hoon's nature - the murder investigation isn't the main plot. (Don't have enough room to go on about Kyung Hee here) His wife, a cello performer is a docile wife who cannot give the type of love that Ki Hoon requires and his liaisons with Ka Hee (Eun Joo) is what fires his emotional desire to have an affair. Its not a romantic film in any way at all, its all negative love / needful want and lust and touches on sexual ambiguity, lesbianism as well as an adulterous affair, and the final tragedy (that 'car crash' scene) is one not to forget easily after the movie concludes.

The production values are again impeccable and the cinematography is what you would expect from Korean technical skill. Acting is well performed and this is one of Eun Joo's best performances although I do get niggles that somehow her mistress character was slightly out of field for her. I do think that Hyun Ah and Ji Won have shone better in other later movies, as their roles are much sparser than Eun Joo's and Suk Kye's, and they don't get really much scope here. They may seem robotic - but they don't get enough rope. Suk Kye is excellent and although a difficult character to appreciate, that role is well played. Overall, the characters here aren't going to be very likable, apart from maybe Su Hyun (Ji Won) as Ki Hoon's pregnant wife and the whole tragedy is a multi layered bitter pill to swallow. Its well written, but its so dark to be likened to a poisoned chalice, the apple from the garden of the fall depicted in a bunch of sordid characters representing dark emotional destitution. Well, apart from Su Hyun. If a 'car' is the correct metaphor for people here on the edge, they all crash disastrously. It could be harsher than some of Park Chan Wook's movies and certainly one of the darkest Korean movies I have seen. In a way, do I wish Eun Joo hadn't made this film?...absolutely 100% Yes. But could her Achilles heel have been something else?
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cuddley bear
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June 12, 2007

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (VCD) (Hong Kong Version)
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 forget it Customer Review Rated Bad 4 - 4 out of 10
Sex, blood, infidelity - all there except that this is by no means a good movie. I am not sure if the writer knows how he wants the movie to develope either. It is indeed weird. I suggest you pick another film.
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Rhoda
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August 31, 2006

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version)
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 Different Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
Quite different from the other movies i've seen. Thrilling and grossed at the same time. But this is quite a challenging role for the actors who find themselves imprisoned inside the car trunk. Very convincing that i felt too frightened. Don't fail to watch this movie.
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anniebeb
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February 4, 2006

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
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 sexual, twisted & boring Customer Review Rated Bad 5 - 5 out of 10
this movie most definitely included sex scenes thus the earli rumor about eun joo's reason for suicide..but overall, i found this movie PREEETY boring :T ill admit that there were parts that just jumped out @ me that i never expected, but overall, the movie was pretty boring. i dont think i got the meaning of the ending real well either, it was just...weird. :T
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Anonymous

April 21, 2005

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version)
Whoa Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
Man of all movies that I've watched this year... this movie really freaked me out. It really made me have a headache once I got done watching it. The cinematography was excellent and really caught the essence of the movie. I can't even describe how I felt about this movie... all I can say is that the ending was really unexpected.
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Anonymous

March 31, 2005

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Awesome story telling Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
I was really impressed with the movie. It is really grabbed my attention from beggining to the end. The story was well written. It is one of my favorite thriller. The ending is really sad. It is well worth it. Watch it!
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Anonymous

March 27, 2005

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 waste of time Customer Review Rated Bad 1 - 1 out of 10
What a bomb. This was the worst movie I ever watched. I want the 2+ hours of my life back on this waste of time. I kept waiting for it to get better but........ I have had better time spent on the toliet.
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Anonymous

March 21, 2005

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version)
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 I Guess this Is What I Have To Say Customer Review Rated Bad 5 - 5 out of 10
Not saying so of who i am, but i knew that someone from Korea had called on an accident, but i never knew who it was til now......Of all the stars i never thought that it be her. She was my favorite actress especially in Phoenix I loved her in that movie....its sad to see someone you called an idol of yours gone because now those who had cherrish her will live in sorrow and pain.....I sincerely do hope that wherever Lee Eun Joo is that she rest in peace.
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Anonymous

March 1, 2005

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version)
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 Lee Eun Joo is a great actress Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
I didn't know till today that she really gone. Its sad because she still young. I guest I alot of people like u and me, were expecting more movies from. But I can say that she made people laugh and cry in her movies or t.v. drama.Lee Eun Joo will be remember by her career because when you put on a movie of her it feel like she still alive.what I'm say that she live on by us watching her movies.
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