Glamorous Youth is the directorial debut of film critic, Philip Yung
The story begins with Hong (Nelson Yung), an ordinary student in his last year of high school, whose literature teacher (Joey Leung) offers advice and generally keeps the peace between student.s He becomes a great support to Hong, who is yet to think about what he wants to do after school,
Although he has an interest in literature he loses his resolve as his parents and girlfriend encourage him to go into the more stable profession of accounting.
Not as good as '300', not as rambiling as 'Wacthmen'. The story had some major pot holes, the acting was sub-par, but if im honest I didnt go to see a profound eye opening film with a beautiful storyline and oscar winning acting. I went for bad ass fight scenes with anime inspiration, a bad ass main character (leonadias style) samurai sowrds, things getting blown the fuck up and revenge, always, always, ALWAYS someone needs to get revenge.
This is one of my all time favourite films for so many reaons. This film is hard to describe, it's a film that literally has it ALL. Some of the many themes of the film (that melt so well together in this masterpeice film that should be a huge cult classic on "Donnie Darko" scale) are Love, (obviously) sexuality, sin, religon (christinaity), freindships, belonging and cults. And it's by the amazing sion sono.
The housemaid directed by Sang-soo Im, is a remake of the 1960 version, also Korean.
I won’t tell you to much, as I saw this film without knowing too much about it myself and I don’t want to spoil it, the basics are. A 30 year old Lee Eun-yi is recruited to become a housemaid for a very wealthy family.