ridiculous rating

A Brilliant Conflict

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I saw this on the Dutch Film Festival about 6-7 months ago. I was not very impressed. While people around me were sobbing, i thought.. well you can see this every week on TV, because it basically was a long version of a dutch show called Spoorloos. A guy (the director) searches for his lost mother in Korea and comes across various problems. During the documentary we see him changing from a stubborn, single minded guy to a more open one with a proper vision of the world. Well, that is what the documentary and San Fu Malta (the guy who financed it) wants us to think.. I spoke with the director afterwards and i still think he seemed the same single minded, stubborn guy.Watch this if you want to see the adventures of some uninteresting guy, who basically got everything he needs in his life, but still (even after the documentary) needs to get a proper vision of the world. Watch something else if you want to see real people, with real problems.Sorry, but i can't be positive about this.