{"id":11099,"date":"2016-06-02T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T22:30:05","slug":"the-fake-2013-yeon-sang-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11099","title":{"rendered":"The Fake (2013, Yeon Sang-ho)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grim movie about the two kinds of people in this world: the horrible and the miserable.  Our horrible lead is Min-chul, an aggressively foul drunk introduced returning home from prison and unrepentantly stealing his daughter&#8217;s college money.  Seeking revenge against a businessman who sucker-punches him in a bar, Min-chul discovers that the businessman is building a fake Christian-cult led by patsy rapist Pastor Sung.  Getting no help from the cops, Min-chul, who hates nothing more than he hates fakes, sets out to destroy it himself, burning down buildings and getting in bloody fights, finally coming home victorious to his suicided daughter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/fake1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, this story is told through Adult-Swim-looking animation, like <em>Metalocalypse<\/em> with less blood and worse music.  The low framerate gives a marionette, videogame quality, damaging the movie&#8217;s illusion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/fake2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Why did I watch this?  Can&#8217;t find reviews by any critics I follow, but somehow it ened up on my must-see list.  Yeon has two zombie-virus train movies out this year: an animated feature and its live-action sequel <em>Train to Busan<\/em> (which opened last week at Cannes, earning <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9300\">Snowpiercer<\/a><\/em> comparisons and a positive review from Twitch).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grim movie about the two kinds of people in this world: the horrible and the miserable. Our horrible lead is Min-chul, an aggressively foul drunk introduced returning home from prison and unrepentantly stealing his daughter&#8217;s college money. Seeking revenge against a businessman who sucker-punches him in a bar, Min-chul discovers that the businessman is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,543,607],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-cult","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11112,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}