"Uncle": the double redemption of violence and warmth

Katrine 2022-03-24 09:02:31

I haven't watched Korean movies for a long time, especially violent movies that are forbidden to watch under the age of 19. I couldn't help but recommend it again and again in April, so I sat in front of the screen, but the video for more than two hours made me forget to go to the toilet.
The story of redemption in "Uncle" is indeed a bit cliché. The crimes in the film are gradually escalating. Drug trafficking - reselling human organs - using children to commit crimes makes people hate it. Although the story is old-fashioned, there are also some unreasonable parts in the development process. For example, why can't Yuan Bin's identity be found after 2006? People with special occupations open pawnshops? It's a bit of a joke, such a person should know some state secrets. Ignoring the details, the action scenes in the film are still very exciting. Yuan Bin's every shot is clean and neat, his punches and kicks are strong and powerful, and every move is well-thought-out, which adds a lot of color to the film, although Yuan Bin has changed with the years. He has been upgraded from a handsome man to an uncle, and the years of military service have also changed his feeling of being a ruffian, but he looks so handsome.
At the end of the film, April thought it was a little procrastination, but I think that the last hug between the uncle and Xiaomi was a hug with his deceased wife and unborn child through time and space, echoing the time when the uncle just found out that his wife was pregnant. "Three" hug. It is also this hug that relieved the uncle of the incident four years ago, freed his heart, and completed the double redemption of Xiaomi and himself.

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  • Tae-Sik Cha: How many cavities you have?

    Man-seok: What?

    Tae-Sik Cha: I have a pawn shop... and I take gold teeth.

    [pause]

    Tae-Sik Cha: I take the gold teeth... and chew all the rest.

  • Tae-Sik Cha: I'm sorry for pretending I did not know you.

    [pause]

    Tae-Sik Cha: I really wanted to know you, so I pretended I did not knew you.

    Jeong So-mi: What does that mean?

    Tae-Sik Cha: [smiles] I don't know either.