Mother

Mother.

In Korean the word mother and murder are almost identical when translated from English to Korean and it is the dichotomy that the film, although unconsciously is entirely hinged, its is a storey of a boy/man who is slightly mentally deficient but played to a point when its personality that encumbers rather than defines any mental misgiving, Again a duel theme accompanying the stories driving presence. The second is the title charachter,Hye-ja-kim,is a wrought fierce character of emotionless grit and complete understanding...so in essence eh a mother, but placed within confines of having a completely unidentifiable character to be a guardian too.

She is always taut with a twisted tension that becomes to define the simplest and uneasy moments of the film,and its this balance that attributed moist of the personality of her charachter,its never explored just reason with down to a pint where her character is nothing more that a character of an actual performance.

When combining difficult character blends into a storey that is seemingly twisted but never unfurls more than a few inches from where it begins everything becomes squashed together in terms of emotion but there is never any real sense of release that the audience is looking for and needs

to comprehend the people we are watching. Its overly simple in terms of plot when complicated is

necessary to draw away out reactions fro the characters for even a slightest moment.Realise comes but its never enough subsidiary plots develop but lead nowhere such is "the best friend" who needs redemption but is never given any,and the lack supporting cast who come in to play when squeezed out painfully.

The direction is misguided the pacing is off completely to a point where is ruins the flow of the film,but there are moments of fun to be had just never really amounting to anything,and this film needs heights to attain rather than being so satisfied with novelty and misappropriated charactisation.