Best movie of this year hands down!

People are voting emotionally.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Friend This is the course of friendship over a twenty year period. Beginning in 1975 we watch as four friends spend some time on what appears to be a summer vacation. Their future looks bright. A few years on as school and life takes its toll the dynamic between them changes and re-changes again as the have to deal with growing up, shattered dreams, decent into crime and drugs and the friendship itself. This is a dark little film that reminded me of some of the work of Martin Scorsese. Life often beats on these guys, from cruelty from their teachers to murder making it hard to get by. The course of these boys lives is not clear nor does it always turn out how we, or they think it will. The cast is excellent from top to bottom. Definitely worth seeking out, though be warned some of the violence has a tough edge to it.

I found it sitting there at blockbuster and I grabbed it for the hell of it and was pleasantly surprised. This was one of the first Korean movies I saw and was completely blown away. Just about everything in this movie is done right. The story is extremely well told and interesting. Its a really intense/serious movie, but does not take itself TOO serious like so many movies and is quite often light hearted and comical. The acting really stands out in this movie, the performances are flawless. PLEASE see this movie. Rent it, buy it, borrow it. You will NOT be disappointed.

If there were a movie out that resembled my story style, it would be this one. I guess to that credit, i gave it some unfair bias =)The elements of the story are like most of mine: Good setup and character development at beginning Wanes a bit in the middle Awesome End Underlying message trying to be conveyedThis is a beautifully told story and the fact that's its based upon the director's true life makes it better.My only complaint is the lack of development on the shrimpy character. THe movie starts out displaying the FOUR friendships and develops on that really well. Yet near the middle of the movie, the focus seems to be on the two gangsters and the narrator. It may be b/c that's how it was in reality, but the fourth character, I thought, needed to given more of the story, at least fictional roles just for balancing purposes.Other than a few carping details, I loved the film.The end owns and the quote from the beginning is quite relevant. The whole story displays LIFE and has reinforced what i believe life accounts - Memories. It is a series of memories and a series of moments that truly touches the heart and will perhaps make you realize memories of your own and how important and effective they are.8/10

I have never seen a movie from Korea before. After this, it made me realized the deep influence of Confucius. If I am not wrong, he is the one who said that everyone should be royal to his friends. It is quite similar to some of the movies made in Hong Kong. Whenever they have gangsters in the movies, those gangsters always seem to be tough towards their nemesis, but nice, tender, royal towards their own friends. I think that it is dangerous to present that idea to the youth. Sure, gangsters are human; they have friends, parents, etc. It does not matter what kind of background they come from, once they become members of gangsters. They are the enemies of the society. When teenagers see the movie, they will have wrong impression that it is ok to be gangsters as long as you are still royal to your own friends. One of the guy really looked like one of the Chinese dissident – Wei JingShen. They all look a little older to be high school students. Their acting skills are quite good. I think the first hour was boring. There were no ups or downs. The last hour was a little too graphic. You can see blood, killing with knives, etc. It is an emotional movie, however, I don't want to watch again.