Spellbound Korean Movie English Subtitle Free Download
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Anyhoo so onto some issues I noticed while watching the show (during which I tried not to rely on the subtitles because trying to analyze the accuracy of the translation is, understandably, pretty distracting/annoying ha).
Also, during the few minutes of the show when I was actively watching/listening and reading the subtitles at the same time, I saw numerous instances of incorrect translations for words and expressions whose deviations from accuracy could not be explained/justified by cross-language barriers.
Another super important linguistic/cultural difference is jon-daen-mal vs ban-mal, which is somewhat analogous to formal vs informal language in French. When a character in the show switches their speech from the formal/respectful Korean to the informal/familiar Korean, the implications/significance of that change are HUGE and immediate, and should be noted in the subtitles IMO.
September 22 Head-On / Gegen die Wand (Germany/Turkey 2004) 121 min.German, Turkish and English with subtitles. Rated R for strong graphic sexuality, pervasive language, some brutal violence and drug content. [IMAGE]What's love got to do with it, one may well ask? Sibel is a Turkish woman wholives with her parents in Germany. Cahit is also Turkish, living in Germany, andhas the right qualifications-that is, he's a man and Sibel needs to get ahusband, preferably not an arranged one. They set up their own arrangement, noteasy to do when both are emotionally hardened people with scarred psyches.HEAD-ON won at the Berlin Film Festival and has been greatly admired because itprovides a grim portrait of Germany's large population of Turks and otherimmigrants -- who, like maritimers in 'Goin Down the Road,' are sociallymarginalized while being essential to the economy. The film is exhilarating inits intensity, swerving from comic cross-cultural tension (and Berlin toIstanbul) to the desperation of social circumstance. Brutal in its realism thefilm is brilliant in its implicit analysis. The new Europe has a lot of'splaining to do.
October 6 The Beautiful Country (USA/Norway 2004) 125 min.English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese with subtitles. Rated R for some violence and strong language. [IMAGE]You probably saw recent national reviews for this gripping drama about aVietnamese war baby's trip to America. Needless to say, that plot device opensup to the possibility of a highly allegorical journey about the ill fated war.Binh is the child of a Vietnamese woman and a G.I. Like millions of others ofthe same lineage, he has suffered as an outsider in his own country. The searchfor his father, played with surprising power by Nolte, becomes a hauntingjourney of almost predictable oppression. Life escaping Viet Nam isn't fun butlife in the big wide USA isn't so free and liberal, after all, and Binh enduresan amazing amount of abuse - no sentimental education here. While the behaviourof humans is often ugly and awful the natural landscapes in which they performtheir cruelties - whether in Texas or Viet Nam-- are staggeringly gorgeous. Thecontrast is bold and deliberate and in spite of the film's austere politics thisis an uplifting and affirming experience.
November 10 2046 (China/France/Germany/Hong Kong 2004) 129 min.Cantonese, Japanese and Mandarin with English subtitles. Rated R for sexual content. [IMAGE]If you remember the languorous rhythms of 'In the Mood for Love' you will lookforward to 2046, Wong Kar-wai's latest sensual attraction. This Hong Kongfilmmaker is now internationally acclaimed for his gorgeous productions andtheir sexy moods. 2046 takes his reputation over the top, as the film focuses ona weary writer, Chow, who fills his time making love to women in a four-digitnumbered hotel room. This cheap summary really doesn't do justice to the sheercinematic power of Wong Kar-wai's vision. Set over about three troubled HongKong years from 1966 on, the film traverses Chow's reveries and real-lifeencounters with a long lost love and a number of beautiful, intertwinedcharacters who are always laughing or weeping in their private memories. 2046 isnot a film for anyone who loses patience easily. In its textured surfaces anddreamy nods to the shadows of set design it shares something with the Hollywood'thirties, but in its deliberate resistance to narrative and formal resolutionsit is artfully avant garde and radical. It is, in short, highly original. Comesee what all the fuss is about.
December 1 Water (Canada/India 2005) Hindi with English subtitles. [IMAGE]The third film in Mehta's controversial and acclaimed 'elemental trilogy,' after'Fire' (96) and 'Earth' (98), WATER attempts to animate history, as it is set inthe set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles againstBritish colonial rule. Mehta's analysis is typically filtered through personalpolitics, notably a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holycity of Varanasi. One of the widows dares to escape the confining restrictionsimposed on her by an unbending society. Being in love with a man who is from alower caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi would be nothing short ofscandalous, even dangerous. WATER opens the Toronto International Film festivalthis year, a courageous move by the programmers who might be risking controversyfrom segments of the Indian community but who also know a good thing when theysee it.
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