Stoker (2013)

hyped garbage

Admirable film.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Not sure why anyone would enjoy a pointless and senseless murdering people movie like this one here. You would have thought the film carries deeper meaning or there's more to this story, but at the end you realized it was just a movie about two soulless psychopaths without a conscience. This movie was a total waste of my time, and I felt sort of angry after watching a piece of crap like this. Come on, couldn't someone have written a better plot or something? Don't we have enough sick people and sadists on earth? How could have a widow fallen for her late husband's brother shortly after the funeral when it seemed like she loved and missed her husband? All of these characters are so unrealistic as if they all were without souls. The girl was born in 1994, but the way people dressed in this film didn't reflect our time at all. That's the other weird thing about this film.

The writing impresses me so much, I do a double take, rewind, check all the angles and always always, use IMDb, the best movie source to look up the writers involved in super flixs! This time boy, was I thrown back- abashed for I could not believe it was some guy who acts in a whole bunch of stuff... I guess it is true you just never know who is the creative out there twixt the maddening throngs and rabbles and automatons Lol JK... well not really, but wow! This guy is definitely on my radar... Wentworth Miller of I guess 'Prison Break' fame, heard of the show but never seen it, nor will I ever see it, now it could be my lose for it could be fantastic, but I scarce doubt that since it gives off the vibe of a 'who dunnit' type of gimmicky schematic dullness that any Super NON - creative can copy and paste together , let alone some horrible gauche producers who should be working at some wal-mart shoving underlings around and exacting orders and howling into the night for they are truly awful inhumanoids, godawful and everybody knows this, look at Asian flix, the art coming out of there is so grand, yet here it should be the same, it should be better because of all the time and money spent, why does 90% of it sux? Take a wild Guess Producers/hack/wannabes - obviously in Asian parts of the world the producers know their part and play their hand to their capacity, they give the artist some money and say here give me your love! Gladly sir! God bless and sure enough, time passes and we have love, Asian love - wish we could get the same here - I have to say , Wentworth Miller, must of found one of the good guys cause the movie flows exactly how a creative Super CREATIVE screenplay should flow, with creative love! And we the masses just are so willing and able to suck it all in with our open maws! loving ever second of it!

Stoker has been on my watchlist for so long I don't even remember what made me interested in it in the first place. I'd say it's because of Park Chan-wook but I'm not so sure if that was the original reason for that. However, now that I haven't really written about movies for a while I thought I'd watch something and decided to go with Stoker.The story is astonishing, and so is the structure. The whole film is somewhat creepy from the beginning, but it's not so straight-forward with it. The film begins as "muted creepy". While the audience sees that something is clearly up with Charlie, the audience doesn't necessarily know what it is. He seems normal, but we've all seen movies, we know he isn't. It's just hard to realise before it's shoved into our faces and we know. Also that really disturbing atmosphere is enhanced by weirdly intense scenes. They don't necessarily need to be that intense, but they are, and that helps create the ambiance of the film. Also while parts of the "plot twist" were easy to predict, some of them came as a total surprise. They definitely were disturbing twists, just like in Oldboy, but still at least partly delightfully unpredictable. Somewhere during the film I forgot that it was Wentworth Miller who wrote this. Either the story is similar to what I'm used to from Park Chan-wook or his directing just made it look so clearly like his movie, but I kept forgetting who actually wrote Stoker. Visually this movie is just as enchanting as Oldboy or Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. It's marvellous. It's unconventional, yet every shot seems to be beautiful, even if they are extremely gruesome. Chung Chung-hoon is an excellent cinematographer. Stoker goes to same category with other Park Chan-wook movies I've seen. It is gruesome, disturbing yet extremely fascinating. If you like films like that, Stoker and Park Chan-wook's movies in general are the right films for you.

Having seen and been unhealthily engaged in 'Thirst' I acquired this.It reminded me of a similar disappointment. One of my most trusted filmmakers is Kar Wai Wong, someone who has expanded my electric cage. His first non-English film 'Blueberry Night' was every bit as ambitious as, say, 'Chun King Express," but had none of the adventure. None of the crazy veers past the guard rail. I suppose it was because at home, his crew understood intuitive shifting as you go. His borrowed US crew had no idea, so he just had to plow through the seafood to the nauseous end.This is less of a failure. Many of the themes, urges and cinematic devices from 'Thirst' are here. The actress seems to understand, but she's just too much of a person where she needs to be a simple container of undirected, temporarily knotted desires. The Charlie in this one isn't much different than Hitchcock's Uncle Charlie, more mad, but as much in control. Too much control for what I think Chan-wook Park had in mind. But he had a script, and not the room to intuitively embellish. Does simply using US assets kill non-character oriented improvisation?