Soo

saw Soo, directed by YangIl Choi or Sai Yoichi .
Marketing points of this film was "hard boiled". yup. It's so cruel and lifelike that in some scene I had to close my eyes.
the problem is that many people focus on only the style, Hard boiled. In my opinion, the styling is not at all for this film.
So many audience were dissapointed of the blind spot of story, furthermore some critique pointed it out. However, if you saw his past movies, "quill", "doing time", like that, you cant say 'hard boiled" is not only one of YangIl Choi.
I thinks Soo is in same line of the movie, 'Blood and bones', his former films. If in Blood and bones we can see the relationship of disobedience between a father and a son(but son failed), in Soo we can also see the relationship between a pseudo-father and son.
Here, there is an important point. Traditionally in the East the Father is an absolute being.
Father can do everything, son should obey him even if father is wrong. If not, it was a sin.
I thinks Soo follows, moves forward from Blood and bones. So if you dont see blood and bones, it will be just violent.
One thing to know is a Master doesnt make a film carelessly. In this movie, we cannt know the relationship between SongIn and TaeSoo, why the younger brother, TaeJin became a cap, why TaeSoo didnt find his brother by that time. But they seem intended. YangIl Choi thinks not to care of those things.
He just concentrates on a revenge his brother.
Only the revenge or an extreme struggling is showed on the screen.
And it might be an eternal recurrence. At the end of Blood and bones, after father died, its horrible that the son wiil become like his father. And in Soo TaeSoo seems dead at last.
How difficult to free from the father!
Although free from the father, can you be happy, satisfied?


well I dont know, foutunately my father is good.