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I mean, I can't be 100% sure if his design was meant to resemble a pirate, but let's be real, it pretty much does.

And the fact that there's a scene he and Kiki hanging out together, and Axel was placed right next to Kiki in a classmate photo, even if they were maybe not necessarily meant to be a couple, I have to doubt their relationship was kinda intentional.

I don't know. It would've been much more explicit if Massa had drawn an illustration about those two.

At first, when the film was screened at Cannes and received overwhelmingly positive reception, I thought I was about to witness a generational masterpiece. (But I have to note not everyone was fond of the film even back then; I clearly remember some people didn't give good reviews on it.)

However, once the film rotated at other film festivals and got limited screenings, its reputation started to deteriorate.

Then the film was released on Netflix. Boom. Everyone was furious about it, calling it one of the worst Latino and LGBT representations in cinema of all time. The musical clips went viral on various social media and everyone mocked this film.

And then it received 13 nominations for the Oscar. The internet film community basically exploded that day, so much so that people even dug up one of the main actors old tweets and tried to cancel. I've never seen people more furious toward the Academy before.

Then the actual Oscar day came. Well, it basically got totally abandoned, winning only 2 nominations (I firmly believe Zoe Saldaña deserved it tho.) Making the whole drama basically pointless and only snubbed the opportunities for the other well-made films that actually deserved nominations.

And after the festival season ended, well… it basically got forgotten really quickly. It's been only 2 years this film came out but literally no one mentions it anymore. A real nothing burger of a film that received a whole lot of undeserved attention and drama, only to be remembered by no one.

What I'm kind of sad about the whole situation is that I firmly believe Jacques Audiard is a very great filmmaker. A Prophet is a modern noir classic, and The Beat That My Heart Skipped is an underrated masterpiece in my opinion.

Heck, I even think Emilia Pérez itself is just a watchable, disposable film. I think it was bound to be one of those films targeted for niche audiences, meant to be viewed only by a few arthouse film enthusiasts, and forgotten quickly.

But the problem was that it received way too much unnecessary attention, only to be remembered as one of the worst Oscar baits in history and permanently damage the director's reputation.

I think Emilia Pérez will be remembered as a good example of why you shouldn't totally believe the early festival hype and why film distributors contemplate again and again, 'Will this film truly be loved by everyone?' before pushing it as their major contender during award season.

I clearly remember it started with about 3.6 rating on Letterboxd at the beginning; now it's only 2.0, about to enter 1-star range. What a tremendous downfall of a film.

https://youtu.be/5c8ck8o\_\_gs?si=UTdiDiwaENcQ4wOU

When I was chilling looking for good YouTube video this one was on recommendation so I clicked it. The second story of the video, absolutely hooked me, it starts from 3:54

According to the video, in 2016, a guy posted this photo on 4chan claiming he's in North Korea right now. He said he smuggled internet modem from Chinese border, took this photo in hotel in North Korea and posted it on the board.

At first, people in the thread OP was just faking up story, and posted some replies like "Do anti-government thing" in your hotel.

However, once the time passes some people started to think OP was not faking at all, some concerned OP should stop the connection with the internet right now.

Well, here's the thing. I'm a South Korean myself, so I know about North Korea more than most people.

It's absolutely true North Korea doesn't allow any foreigners visiting the state posting photos or videos online.

Just like the video mentioned, the most infamous case is Otto Warmbier. A college student who "supposedly" trying to steal propaganda poster in North Korean hotel (at least that's how the government claimed), arrested, stood on trial, and although the US government managed to make a deal of sending him back to his country, turned out he was already dead on arrival due to acute tortures. Yes, North Korea is that serious.

However, if someone's brave and reckless enough, it is possible to film a video on spycam, and then upload it online after leaving North Korea.

Most famously some reckless foreigners once took a video of the fifth floor of North Korean hotel and then uploaded it on YouTube after arriving to their home country.

https://youtu.be/2yBiW9LB\_HA?si=XF7pNPvXnZan3IS-

Yes, this was absolutely stupid activity. Not only they entered the forbidden floor, and filmed it, they even got caught by one of the staff members in the hotel. If the person took the video was alone, not having companions, he really could've had same fate as Otto.

Anyway, back to the thread. Although OP did leave some few replies, he only vaguely revealed where he was at that moment. And alas, some trolls in the thread started to report the photo to North Korean government officials emails and threatened the OP. People genuinely said "enjoy your time in death camp."

After this, OP didn't leave any further replies and the thread was close.

Due to this reason, some people speculated OP was arrested, secretly punished by the government and never seen again.

However, I think this is unlikely. If OP really traveled to North Korea, pretty sure he had alerted that to some of his acquaintances. And if he hasn't been heard for many days, they would've alerted to the states and his story should've been all over the news. Unless, well, he was totally alone and never told anyone about his trip.

This was the first time I've ever heard about this case until I saw the video. I tried to search about it online but seems like no one has discussed about it further.

My personal speculation is, the OP was most likely lying. Although the overall gloomy and dystopian atmosphere of the photo does remind me of North Korea, there are many other places like this in Eastern Europe, Russia, or even China.

I think the place where the photo was took could be either Harbin or Yanbian. Due to the fact that born are regions very close to North Korean border and many Chinese-Korean people living there, the overall place are sort of similar to North Korea.

Still, I think this photo really intrigued me in many ways. What do you guys think? Do you think OP was telling the truth, or if he was lying, where the place could possibly be?

I usually don't like when Hollywood tries social satire, especially the representation of the COVID era. Most of the time, it feels either pointless or pretentious, or both if worst.

However, Eddington was the one film so far I found to be a perfect recreation of how chaotic 2020 was. Some people criticized it, feeling it was too much or didactic, but well, at least for me, it felt like a perfect caricature. The whole movie is just really crudely funny and morbidly absurd, not a single boring moment for the entire 148 minutes.

Joaquin Phoenix and Deirdre O'Connell are absolutely amazing in this. The cinematography and set design are perfect; it really does give a feeling of an unknown small town in rural America.

The best part is obviously the third act, might be one of the most unhinged ones I've seen in the 2020s so far. I didn't know Ari would be so good at making gun-shoot sequences, and the ending is just really hilarious.

And I'm not really trying to be "different" with this opinion. I think Ari's all four films are great so far, but Eddington was the only one that was so good it made me rewatch it just a month after the first watch.

I think, at least, it will get a better reputation in the future with some reappraisals. I've seen some people already liking this film more than they did before.

I mean, considering some people are just not fans of excessive satires and metaphors, I do understand why some people did not like this one. Still, it's my personal favorite Ari's work to date.

I randomly stumbled upon this photo in customer review sections of a character plush (if you're wondering, the character is Mymy from Dutch animation Ongezellig.) I just got intrigued by the beautiful scenery of the sea. With some buildings (maybe hotels) on the cliff.

All I know about is that this is probably in Mexico since the reviewer's profile says he's from Mexico. Can we identify this place?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4436520857/dutch-schoolgirl-meme-plush?ls=r&ref=related-1&bes=1&content_source=a6feb0d6f2dcd3d771f4fcc03a0be4ae%253ALT1eda080889b4ef33fffdef0bbad35e9e7b17ea05&logging_key=a6feb0d6f2dcd3d771f4fcc03a0be4ae%3ALT1eda080889b4ef33fffdef0bbad35e9e7b17ea05

The review section where I found the photo. It's on the page 7 (sorted by Most Recents.) The user named Xeroc posted it.

1. Really wish it gets good word of mouth among people and earns more

2. The marketing team behind that AI dog advertisement bs should really never steps a foot in marketing again

3. If this is how much this movie tracks to earn, I don't think I even have to talk about Coyote vs Acme...

(Not sure if the third soyjak meme came out first than the cartoon or later)

Seriously guys, fiction is just fiction

I know Letterboxd isn't very mature when it comes to film discussion but I've seen worse, worse shits on Twitter. They always think they have much more "elegant" taste on film than the others, disrespecting on other people's taste, and insulting on films people worked hard to make it.

The worst part is, most of them don't even watch the film they're hating on. They just think they know everything about it without even actually watching it. At least those one-liner reviews were written by people who actually watched the film.

Letterboxd isn't the best place to discussing about films. But film Twitter will always be the worst place to do so.

Ok maybe it's just me cuz I'm a native East Asian myself. But I think she looks much more cute and organic in her natural black hair instead of Donald Trump form. What do you guys think?

Ok maybe it's just me cuz I'm a native East Asian myself. But I think she looks much more cute and organic in her natural black hair instead of Donald Trump form. What do you guys think?

"How is this racism" You're generalizing all the people in the group the same with full of hateful words?

Racism isn't right no matter what race it is. Black. Asian. Latino. Caucasian. Whatever. Just stop hate people

Felt like the whole movie was running on rough cuts, like some BBC soap drama from the 80s.

It felt so lifeless and stiff. Every scene has no tension, even including the musical parts. It's just full of reaction shots and clunky connections between scene and scene.

I'm not saying every movie should be like Baz Luhrmann but man, this was a weird outcome for almost $200M budget.

This movie had four editors. Two of them are very talented ones.

I don't usually complain about movies but this one really touched my nerves.

This post is a very sensitive topic. I posted this write-up on some crime subreddits. But I thought it would suitable for r/Korea as well. Hope I'm not breaking any rules.

Introduction

I am a South Korean myself. I will always be proud of how safe my country is. It is one of the few countries where you can roam around the streets without the fear of getting assaulted.

The superb safety of South Korea is greatly represented by the lack of gun violence. South Korea is one of the countries with the strictest gun laws. Generally, it is impossible for a normal person to possess a gun unless they work for particular jobs, like the police or the military. Even if you obtain a gun license and buy guns legally, you cannot keep them at home but must register them at a police office and can only pick them up on special occasions after getting permission.

But contradictorily, the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in history once occurred in South Korea. Although it was a very long time ago and mostly seen as "a tragedy no one could have prepared for," the trauma and scars it left on Korean citizens' hearts linger to this day.

Background

Woo Bum-kon (우범곤) was born in 1955. His dad was a police officer, whom he greatly respected. He even told everyone that once he became an adult, he would be a police officer just like his dad.

Woo didn't particularly have a troubled childhood but seemed to have a hard time adjusting to society. His grades in school were very low, and people stated he even cut himself with glass fragments for no particular reason. And, in the final straw, his father passed away when he was about to graduate from high school.

Once an adult, Woo served in the military as a marine. He was praised by his colleagues for his exceptional shooting skills. However, he still seemed to have trouble with his short temper and bad drinking habits during this time.

After his discharge, Woo finally became a police officer, just as he had dreamed. Woo was considered an elite man thanks to his shooting skills and high proficiency in martial arts; once, he was even selected as a bodyguard for Cheong Wa Dae, the executive office and residence of the president of South Korea.

However, his problems with anger issues and alcohol addiction would eventually catch up to him. Woo constantly treated civilians harshly and even showed violence towards fellow police officers. In the end, he was fired from his bodyguard job and even transferred to a police office in Uiryeong-gun, a very remote town in Gyeongsangnam-do. His colleagues always called him a "mad tiger."

Incident

On the night of April 26, 1982, a bloody massacre no one expected swept the whole town of Uiryeong.

A drunken Woo was spotted by soldiers at a local arsenal. At first, it seemed he just wanted to joke around and drink with the soldiers for mere entertainment. However, he entered the arsenal, picked up a gun, and started threatening people. The soldiers tried to calm him down, but it was too late. Woo started shooting aimlessly and scared the soldiers away. He then armed himself with two M2 carbines, several bullets, and seven hand grenades.

Woo went straight to the town, where he instantly began a rampage shooting toward innocent villagers without any warning.

First, Woo went to the local post office and slaughtered the workers there. This was because he tried to block contact with the outside world. It was the 1980s, and the town was very small; a transfer at the post office was needed to call someone.

Woo would barge into family houses or marketplaces to kill people without any hesitation. Dozens of people perished without even getting a slight chance to resist. However, some managed to survive by hiding or turning off the lights in their houses.

At one point, Woo went to a family house where a funeral was held, and the people there didn't know about the shooting yet, so they welcomed Woo inside the house. Woo would calmly drink and joke with the residents and even gave a small amount of money to pay respect for the dead, as if he hadn't just murdered a bunch of people just a few minutes ago.

However, a quarrel occurred once Woo became drunk again and started to harass people. He then, once again, aimed his gun towards the innocents, killing almost everyone in the funeral home, and left.

At last, Woo entered another family house of five. He didn't shoot the people there but instead detonated two grenades, which killed three people and ultimately ended Woo's life as well.

Woo didn't show any mercy during the rampage. Even elderly people and little kids were no exception; they all became targets of his massacre. At one point, he was about to leave the family house where he committed a massacre, but he heard a young baby crying, so he went back to the house and finished the baby.

Two civilians were acting like heroes. One was a female worker at the post office which Woo rampaged earlier. On her last breath, she connected the code between the house of the village chef and the central post office on Main Street. Thanks to her sacrifice, another villager managed to call the police later.

Another hero was an unnamed male taxi driver. During the massacre, he drove his taxi around the town, yelling at every family house, "Turn off the light! Some crazy guy is killing us right now! Turn it off before you get noticed!" Many villagers were able to save themselves after turning off all the lights, like he said. But, very unfortunately, the taxi driver himself was found murdered by Woo in an alley.

The police committed a major, unforgivable, and cowardly response during the rampage. Although they were contacted after one village managed to call them, the high-ranking officials from the police thought the report was just a false alarm and didn't try to deploy the units.

And even when about 30 police officers were sent to the village, none of them dared to enter the town, but rather, they decided to hide under the bridge or the bank. The chiefs were "confused" about giving any orders, and their subordinates were too afraid to fight against the lone gunman. And while the police were wasting their time like this, Woo had already massacred a bunch of civilians. In fact, Woo could have caused many more casualties if he hadn't ended his life with grenades.

Woo's motive for this massacre was as morbid as his actions. By the time the incident took place, Woo was living with his girlfriend. They had originally planned to get married last year but were denied by the girlfriend's parents because they thought Woo didn't have enough money for the wedding and considered him a poor person.

In reality, it was actually because the girlfriend's parents had already figured out Woo's drinking problems and short temper. Anyway, Woo seemed to have a grudge against his girlfriend due to this reason.

The same night before shooting, Woo's girlfriend slapped Woo's chest to catch the fly. Woken by the pain, Woo thought his girlfriend had hit him on purpose and had a quarrel with her. Driven by anger, Woo eventually assaulted his girlfriend and left the house to get drunk. He would then head to the arsenal to commit a bloody massacre.

All these killings happened due to Woo's lack of financial ability, personality problems, a bad drinking habit, and a small misunderstanding.

Aftermath

The exact number of people killed in the massacre is debatable. The English Wikipedia states it was 56, not including Woo himself, but this is unlikely, as many local South Korean presses report it was 62. Some say it was 63, including one person who passed away due to injuries some time later.

The Woo Bum-kon incident would be remembered for many years, even by foreigners, for being the deadliest mass shooting in modern history committed by a single gunman until Anders Behring Breivik surpassed the victim count by killing 77 people in the 2011 Norway Attacks.

A whole village was wiped out. Many kids were left without their parents. The fifth photo I posted above was taken when a police officer comforted a young child who lost his family in the massacre. After he became an adult, he showed himself in a documentary and stated, "I didn't want to believe anyone. How could I believe the police when they were the ones who killed my family?"

Did this incident occur due to the lighter gun laws in the 80s? Not really. The gun laws in South Korea were already very strict back then. President and dictator Chun Doo-hwan wanted to fix the prevalent gang problem in the country and made access to guns for civilians almost impossible. If Woo hadn't been a police officer and friendly to the soldiers in the arsenal, this whole massacre would have been unlikely to happen.

Of course, the citizens of South Korea were very furious at how incompetent the police were during the massacre and demanded justice. In the end, some of the high officials were punished, but there was no way to bring back the already dead people.

President Chun visited the massacre site, showed his condolences to the villagers, and gave small compensation money to the survivors. Although Chun was infamous for his authoritarian dictatorship, the incident was too major to hide, and it seemed he didn't want any turmoil pointed out by the opposition party.

However, it did take a long time to build a memorial site to remember the victims. The villagers have constantly demanded that the memorial be built, but it was never realized for many years. Just in 2024, a memorial tower and memorial park were finally built in Uiryeong, 42 years after the massacre took place.

Despite the severity of the case, the Woo Bum-kon incident is not well known or recognized worldwide. Only a few people researching mass killings are likely to have heard about it, due to the very scarce information available.

In fact, even in South Korea, Woo Bum-kon isn't remembered by everyone. Even when I search for the incident in Korean on local websites, not much detailed information or even photos of the incident are available.

Many Korean mass media outlets collectively remember the incident as a tragedy, but detailed articles are very hard to find. The TV programs and movies are reluctant to dramatize this case.

In 1999, a film titled 'The Face (얼굴)" loosely based on the incident was made. The plot surrounds a police officer who transferred to a small town, gradually gets his mental state deteriorated by the hostility of the villagers, and eventually commits the mass shooting at the end of the film. However, the film was criticized by people for depicting villagers negatively, as if Woo was the victim in the case.

A well-acclaimed filmmaker, Na Hong-jin, claimed he had always wanted to adapt the case to film but was eventually canceled due to opposition from the surviving victims.

As a South Korean myself, I've always found it hard to wrap my head around how such a deadly incident occurred in my country, where gun violence is very rare. However, I think we shouldn't try to erase this case from history, as unexpected mass killings in a remote town by a lunatic gunman seem possible to be happened even in 2026 in some countries, and people should always be aware. It's a tragedy, but a tragedy we should never forget.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon_incident

https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/opinion/police-officer-woos-massacre-and-a-states-long-silence/12715170

https://archives.kdemo.or.kr/photo-archives/view/00755449 (Korean. A few photos from the incident are available here.)

Entschuldigung, aber ich spreche kein Deutsch. Ich habe für diesen Beitrag Google Übersetzer verwendet, wollte aber unbedingt wissen, was Cineasten aus deinem Land von diesem Filmemacher halten.

Als ich kürzlich auf Letterboxd nach einem mir bisher unbekannten Filmemacher suchte, der mich interessieren könnte, stieß ich auf den deutschen Regisseur Dominik Graf.

Ich habe bisher drei seiner Filme gesehen – *Die Sieger*, *Die Katze* und *Fabian* – und wow, diese Filme sind absolut fantastisch. Seine Filme bieten so vieles, das begeistert: die Spannung, den Realismus, die gesellschaftskritischen Aspekte, die Action und vieles mehr. Ich bin sehr gespannt darauf, auch seine anderen Filme zu entdecken.

Es scheint, als sei Dominik Graf international kein allzu bekannter Filmemacher, sondern eher eine Größe, die vor allem im eigenen Land geschätzt wird. Daher würde mich interessieren, wie die Cineasten vor Ort ihn sehen. Genießt er in Deutschland hohes Ansehen? Oder ist er auch dort nicht besonders bekannt?

Ich bin sehr gespannt auf eure Meinungen.

I PRAY this project will never be cancelled cause this is definitely be future classic if it really comes out

Maya, Coco, Mymy - the main trio.

Cleo, Yfke, Zoey - Running in the 60s'.

Kiki - Massa loves her for some reason.

Axel, Adam, Stan, Tryn - very niche but have some fans.

The others- yeah sorry but no chance mate

Pls correct me if I'm wrong tho

But when I search her name on Tiktok or Pinterest it seems Zoey definitely isn't as recognized as the other three in the Running in the 60s'