Reviews

This is one of the few Korean series that I really dislike. In contrary to the view of most people, I found that the story is just about a woman cheating on a man. She's selfish and her character is not lovable at all. (What's cute about pressuring a man to pay for her meal every time and what's cute about eating two bowls of noodles without sharing and feeling proud of it? I just don't understand. I hate that scene.) Even her conversation with the man she loves sound unkind. I didn't find sympathy for her. She's in a relationship with a man long enough, and suddenly she wanted to break up without saying why and without honestly tell him the truth that she and one of his college friends had a crush on each other. At least one should be honest if one is about to leave a person to get on a new relationship. And I'm saying that...as a woman.

The soundtrack is nice but too repetitive. The acting of the cast is very good and I wish they had a better script to play. The story is too dragging, too slow in some spots.

I know that the series meant for the audience to sympathize with their relationship, but sorry, I don't. It's not an immorality because she hasn't got married with her boyfriend, but keeping it away from him and trying to break up without a reason is selfishness.

This is a well-written and well-produced film with excellent actress and actor to play the lead roles (and they did great job) and a lot of realistic costume and setting. The cinematography was beautiful, as well as the dialogue taken from the novel. What we see on screen can keep our attention and wants us to know more about this "Grace" how she will end up, and what she is really like, and what this story is trying to tell us. I enjoyed watching the five episodes, and felt somewhat disappointed when it comes to the last one.

You can listen to one story filled with excitement, tension, and mystery and be entertained by it, but in the end you might get nothing beneficial from it at all. I think this is the case with "Alias Grace". For the ending seems wanted the audience to interpret by themselves, and in my interpretation. Grace is just one woman who learns her way in a society controlled by men, learned to lie very well, to play victim. I don't blame her a lot if she would be a man hater after the violence acts committed to her at the asylum. But for me, in the end Grace just knew that Dr. Jordan had a crush on her but when she heard that he had a woman at the place he stayed with. She changed her mind and decided to ruin his imagination in order to hurt him on that particular talking-under-the veil scene. She didn't really love or forgive Jamie but she said so because she needs a man to be with to survive in that society. Well, that's my interpretation of the ending. The film doesn't give any solution or any thoughtful idea to the society, in my opinion. It just shows how a man-hater is built and how she gently works her way to survive.

I think this is a good entertainment and I enjoyed watching it most of the time. The story, the performance, the effects and overall production was fine and I didn't feel that Hemsworth or Teller were miscast. They did well in their role and add delicate and interesting personality to their characters.

The story is interesting and I respect a sci-fi story that admits science can be evil. We watch how these participants were treated by those drugs and it kept getting weirder and creepier. We saw natural romance blooming between a man and a woman who were inmates volunteered to be experimented on. We see a young scientist who seems friendly and polite, yet we learn more and more that he is obsessed with his work and he himself is not a happy person at all. It was as if he is jealous of the happiness of people around him. We saw that his assistant is also unhappy about this experiment but didn't dare to speak up. Things I saw on this film kept my interest most of the time and one particular actress who plays an inmate tortured in the experiment could perform very well and that scene scared and and tortured me as a viewer, too.

The bad thing about this film is the final scene, as though it was produced and directed by a different person. Why that annoying song in the background? Why making the ending look like a comedy when the rest of the film has been serious? I was disappointed with how the ending was presented, not the story itself.

Sometimes we come across a beautiful love story of true love and forgiveness like this and we may think it is so unreal because we can't find such a good man around. Actually, I felt a bit of that too but when I really think about it...I was just jealous of Angel because she's so blessed to find the perfect man who unconditionally loves her although she doesn't deserve him at all, and that didn't happen to me. So, I should review this from an unbiased point of view.

I think the movie is fine in its overall production. We got beautiful camera work, great setting, and a well-performing cast. I think the quality as a film is on higher average.

As for the story, we watched a life of a lovely blond-hair girl growing up very bitter and cold for she had such a terrible father and had suffered so much under brutality of evil men. She became a prostitute with no feelings. Then we saw this God-loving farm man, who is handsome and kind, suddenly fell in love with her and just did everything to rescue her like prince charming on white horse. She betrayed him again and again, and yet he still loved her and forgave her. There were dramatic scenes of her falling back into hands of bad people because she stupidly left her husband but she survived and in the end she was able to push the past behind and stayed forever with this perfect man.

On one look, you might see a soap opera and ask questions like, what make he fell so deep with such a woman because she doesn't seem to have anything good except being so pretty? Does a young man who is handsome, stable, religious, and hot in bed exist on earth? But since this story is based on Christianity teachings, I would say yes. An undeserving person can have perfect love and God has shown us that through the forgiveness of Jesus Christ. And yes, such a perfect man exist because there are saints walking on earth. It's just that there are very few of them. And the final yes, if someone is loved unconditionally and is forgiven again and again for a period of time, she can be healed from her trauma and can truly love another person.

The plot seemed strange to me in the beginning and the production of the film didn't look like it has a lot of quality; however, when I see how those kids behave at the beginning of the story, I was like...well, they deserve to be locked up and learned some lessons. I decided to watch the series, and it was the right decision!

The story is very interesting. It keeps us guessing what is in the head of Hiragi the teacher. As the story unfolds, I found that the film meant to discuss deeper subjects that drive problems inside these students and we see them forced to admit their own fault and learn from it. All along the way, the people in social media are shown criticizing everything, making fun with the situation, judging, blaming, and saying all terrible things through their comments. In the end, we find out that this is lesson for those social media users. They are the real killer and they, too, should be ashamed.

The performance of the cast overall was very good. The acting of the actor who plays Hiragi was very outstanding, deserving award. The CG and the effects were average but it is passable. The plot is very unique and we can't guess the ending. It has its exciting moments with twist and turn.

But I want to re-emphasize here that the best thing about this series is the important messages it is speaking to the audience in a powerful way. It is an important message and I respect the director, writer, and production team for producing this series. It doesn't look as good as Hollywood work, but it is more precious.

I think this is quite a unique movie and it is smartly-designed to hold the attention of viewers right from the start. Although it might moves slow and has a lot of conversation, this film is far from boring, due to creepiness and building of tension given out by the characters, the situation, the atmosphere, and the dialogue.

I really want to compliment the casting of this film. They two main actors and the actress who played the robot were so well-selected and their personalities were so distinct. It was as if each character was particularly designed to create specific feelings in the audience and each actor/actress know exactly what kind of person they are playing. I really admire the actress who played the main AI. She expressed just about the right amount of emotions in her eyes and gestures and make it mysterious enough to play with the feelings of the man and the audience, keep us wondering if she has consciousness and love feelings or not.

The story gets more and more interesting, especially after the black-out. The fact that all of this happened in a remote laboratory somewhere faraway, only accessible by helicopters and have not phone signal, gives even more tension to the situation because we know that our main protagonist does not have access to any help and might get stuck there.

As for the theme, I think I can understand clearly, at least from my point of view. (spoiler ahead) Machines are machine and they do not have a heart. If we are too careless and selfish like the scientist who create her or if we are too naive and gullible like the gentle young man who fell for her, we might be doomed. In the end, it is clear that the pretty AI was programmed to learn more and more and to seek way to go outside, using any possible tools and techniques. Being AI, she did exactly that. She used female sensuality and pretentious helplessness to find her way out from one man, and use heartless violence with the other man to escape from that place. Well, she is an AI, a machine, after all. If humans create something super smart, perfectly similar to us in look and personality, yet without a heart, humans have to take the consequences.

I deeply love a few other Japanese movies that touched on the theme of acceptance of death, but unfortunately, I could not understand the point and did not feel that the nuances in this film create any deep meanings. I did not relate to the characters. They look bland and does not have clear personalities. On the first half that they portrayed the love between these lovers, I did not feel much depth in it, so it was hard to be emotionally involved in the film after the accident happened.

There were also scenes that I felt absolutely unnecessary, such as Hitoki waking up to some lights in his room and started dancing alone. What's the point of it? And why did he has to wear his girl friend's dress after she passed away. It felt weird to me and I just didn't understand the meaning. The cinematography was ok but it didn't help much, since there are scenes that seem to be so mundane and pointless. Maybe the director has his own points and message to be sent, but I just didn't get it. Sorry.

I think this is a fine work. There is nothing like a big flaw to it and of course it is watchable and entertaining just like Korean series with good standard. However, I've watched so many Korean series and somehow this is one seem a bit mediocre to me. It's got all the elements but when they are mixed together, it doesn't make the story stand out that much when compared to some other series I've watched.

Yes, the story is interesting and has a paranormal element to it. They used famous stars with good acting skills. The first 4 episodes kept me glue to my seat and I found it a lot enjoyable. However, the story drags a bit in the middle and the plot is well-constructed but somehow it keeps moving in cycle. She's going to get saved somehow anyway because he will dreamed of that situation and things started to be less interesting. The cast did good job, overall. But somehow, to me, there is not much chemistry between the two lead characters and that is quite a big let-down.

I still recommend it to those who have not watched a lot of Korean series like me. Maybe I've watched too many of them so I lost interest too easily in this one. It's not a bad work, though.

The documentary is interesting enough to hold my attention and it gives me things to think about. In my opinion, it's reasonable that they present quite convincing interviews and simulated situations of possession and exorcism in the beginning, for it is going to contrast another point of view in the half of the film, and we, as the audience, will make our own judgement about this case.

The movie part looks exciting and captivating. I like that they let these people tell the story themselves. There is something that convinced me that they didn't all lie. There could be a case of possession going with the youngest boy of the house. At least three kids (now grown up) seem to affirm it. There must be something going on back then.

However, when the murder happened, when the scene of murder was reported, the oldest boy in the house was interviewed, and the fact that the Warren seems to be hungry for money, made me think of another possibility, too. There might be a set-up of some sort. If not, how come the oldest son never believe that there has been any possession related to the murder? How come the boy David who was supposedly possessed shut up and behaved when the father of the house (who didn't believe his son was possessed) came to scold him? These are very interesting points and it kept me pondering.

Overall, I enjoyed learning about the story and it was easy to follow what was going on about this case. It was interesting enough. And in my opinion, I think both things might be true, there used to be a case of demonic possession, but there might be something else like a cover-up or a set-up that work in some parts of this story as well. Well, just a guess. I can never know the whole truth about it.

This film took me by surprise. I heard about the fire at Notre Dame that year but I didn't read a lot of details about it. The film pulled me into the event of that day and, honestly, I was so thrilled and scared and was so impressed at the same time. It's incredible how a documentary can be so exciting.

The beginning might look a little slow but I appreciate how it gives background about the church and let us see how popular it is among tourists. That small dramatic moment of the little girl trying so hard to donate her money and made a prayer in Notre Dame at the very last moment became a theme of faith and give the film a wonderful conclusion at the ending.

I think the film just honestly follow the situation and let us see points of view from different directions. I was routing for the firemen team because the movie shows clearly that they are in dangerous situation, working inside the old Cathedral. I also felt sympathy for the man who holds the key to the most important treasure. He tried so hard, tried his very best to get there, and the scene that they saved Jesus crown of thorns at the very last moment was such a thrill.

The part where doors seem to close by themselves and lock the firemen in, together with flashes of demonic rock decorations seem to point out that there are evil power involved in this fire. But at the ending, the whole city praying and singing hymns show us that at last God triumphed. Maybe this is His will after all, to get the people of Paris praying together.

Overall, it is a very outstanding documentary, beautifully-told, with a hidden beautiful theme of faith. Hat-off to the director. Thank you so much for producing it.