Brilliant and touching

Absolutely brilliant

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Last year I loved the mix of intrigue and sexual tension which drove the beautiful-looking 'The Handmaiden'. It was this film that made me look to another film from Park of similar style, Stoker. Set in suburbia the film joins a family after the strange suicide of the father of the house. Quickly the mother has started sharing the house with her husband's estranged brother, while her daughter looks on in disgust. Within this dynamic tensions and secrets start to rise.Stoker is a beautifully shot film, with a consistently great look and shot framing. It is deliberately cold and crisp in a way that produces a frosty environment of tension and superficiality. On this front I liked the film a lot, however the content isn't there to match it. The cold nature of the film doesn't adequately hint and reveal at deeper, and the delivery of most of the film lacks spark and tension. The specific twists and violent moments in and of themselves add energy, but they come over like standalone episodes in some way. This feeling draws in the cast too, and I didn't think they made their characters work, in context or out of it, which is a shame considering the talent.Stoker is a handsome film in its construction, and it has dramatic moments, but mostly it doesn't work particularly, and lacks spark.

After watching Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy films in the 00s (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance), I'm just now getting caught up on his more recent work. This is a sort-of erotic thriller with a lot of Hitchcock overtones and just gorgeous camerawork that embraces its atmosphere and sense of mystery with the director's distinctive tone that's most dream-like and immediate, in turns. Really good, if you like this sort of thing.

The writing impresses me so much, I do a double take, rewind, check all the angles and always always, use IMDb, the best movie source to look up the writers involved in super flixs! This time boy, was I thrown back- abashed for I could not believe it was some guy who acts in a whole bunch of stuff... I guess it is true you just never know who is the creative out there twixt the maddening throngs and rabbles and automatons Lol JK... well not really, but wow! This guy is definitely on my radar... Wentworth Miller of I guess 'Prison Break' fame, heard of the show but never seen it, nor will I ever see it, now it could be my lose for it could be fantastic, but I scarce doubt that since it gives off the vibe of a 'who dunnit' type of gimmicky schematic dullness that any Super NON - creative can copy and paste together , let alone some horrible gauche producers who should be working at some wal-mart shoving underlings around and exacting orders and howling into the night for they are truly awful inhumanoids, godawful and everybody knows this, look at Asian flix, the art coming out of there is so grand, yet here it should be the same, it should be better because of all the time and money spent, why does 90% of it sux? Take a wild Guess Producers/hack/wannabes - obviously in Asian parts of the world the producers know their part and play their hand to their capacity, they give the artist some money and say here give me your love! Gladly sir! God bless and sure enough, time passes and we have love, Asian love - wish we could get the same here - I have to say , Wentworth Miller, must of found one of the good guys cause the movie flows exactly how a creative Super CREATIVE screenplay should flow, with creative love! And we the masses just are so willing and able to suck it all in with our open maws! loving ever second of it!

I am not a fan of the psycho thrillers. However, I did some research on their behaviors which I was intrigued by. I think I have more insights than general misconceptions. This movie on that front is well-interpreted.This movie is well-made throughout the cinematography. The dialogue was short and concise which it should be in this genre. It's a movie giving audiences visible senses without directly tell them verbally. The well-planned settings pretty much preceded the story. I would say the right casts and settings made this movie half way success already. It has the thrilling effects like those Hitchcock's movies. It abandoned those techniques most thriller movies used nowadays i.e. grossly terrified themes. They usually left no room for audiences to image. If you are not a thriller seeker, you will like this one.