only for the system to beat you in the end, after all.
You make it to the final rounds – OMG am I almost there?! –. You start to wonder if you will – gasp! – actually be able to pull off a perfect game – a feat that is only rumored to be possible. The experience of watching this show is similar to what I imagine it would be like, to be on an exceptional winning streak in your favorite computer game: you are in disbelief as you clear round after round, trouncing the system in ways that you didn’t think possible. "Thread of Lies tops South Korea B.O." Film Business Asia. "Review: Tone-deaf MONSTER Exhibits Unusual Cruelty Towards Women". "Kim Go-eun to come back in vicious revenge tale". Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. "Interview: Lee Min Ki Transforms into Killer for Monster". "KIM Go-eun, Star of Monster and Memories of the Sword: To be Remembered as a Good actress, Not as an Overnight Star". "Press Conference Held for MONSTER: Actor Transformations Front and Center".
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"HWANG In-ho, Director of MONSTER: "I Want to Think Free of Genre" ". It recorded 357,000 admissions and ₩2.85 billion ( US$2.66 million) for its first week. This negative criticism seemed to affect its early run, drawing 88,995 viewers on its opening weekend, behind Thread of Lies and 300: Rise of an Empire. Writer-director Hwang In-ho experimented by combining thriller and comedy elements and pushing genre conventions to their extremes with strong stylistic overtones, but some reviews called the film "awkward," "unharmonious" and "almost schizophrenic" as a result, while others criticized a perceived misogyny beneath the film's ostensible message of female empowerment. Monster was released in theaters on March 13, 2014. Yoo Jae-myung as country police constable.
Heo Joon-seok as leader of demolition team.Asked by Yeon-Hee's ex-boss to give him the phone, Bok-soon does this and leave the gory restaurant with Na-ri. But Tae-soo, asked by his step-brother to make the purchase, kept the money, phone and killed Yeon-Hee instead. Then Yeon-Hee's ex-boss appears, who previously asked Ik-sang to buy Yeon-Hee's phone from its owner, so she can't blackmail him with recorded video showing his abusive behavior towards her. After finally stabbing him to death, she finds out that the little girl is alive. Bok-soon finds Tae-soo just then, and a deadly battle unfolds between this frail but strong young woman and the bemused, ruthless killer that ruined her life. With his animalistic senses, Tae-soo escapes death, but ends up getting terribly injured, yet manages to kill them all, his stepmother and her son and apparently Na-ri (whom Tae-soo took along). But it was his family's opportunistic attitude to exploit Tae-soo despite their disgust and fear towards him that only aggravated the loneliness and monstrosity within him.Įventually, Kyeong-ja and Ik-sang secretly bring in some gangsters to her restaurant in an attempt to kill Tae-soo, whom they invited for a meal. He cares deeply for his adoptive family, stepmother Kyeong-ja and older brother Ik-sang, who took him in as a young boy.
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Tae-soo is a merciless, unpredictable serial killer who commits brutal murders for no reason, then methodically covers up his tracks. Despite her limited mental ability, she begins planning her revenge, and joins up with Na-ri, a little girl who is being chased by Tae-soo, after he killed her elder sister Yeon-Hee. Bok-soon is completely consumed by her grief, madness and uncontrollable rage. Their relatively peaceful life is disrupted when Tae-soo, who lives alone in a deserted forest, kills Bok-soon's beloved sister because Eun-jeong may have stumbled upon the truth of his murderous lifestyle. The name-calling doesn't affect her at all, and she only cares about working hard and saving up money for Eun-jeong's education. Bok-soon manages to make a living by running a street stall at the local market with her younger sister Eun-jeong, whom she loves more than life itself. She is "slow" and not very smart due to a developmental disability, but is nonetheless a brave young woman with a happy inner world. Independent and aggressive, Bok-soon is known around the neighborhood as a "psycho bitch" because of her weird behavior. Monster ( Korean: 몬스터 RR: Monseuteo) is a 2014 South Korean action thriller film written and directed by Hwang In-ho, starring Lee Min-ki and Kim Go-eun.
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