tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769732831239720146.post8414912887937542623..comments2024-01-14T15:30:58.493-05:00Comments on Korean Grindhouse: The Green Fish: You Need to Go Down to Get DeepDrew P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14875923118523549579noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769732831239720146.post-39170328288795809572010-12-18T04:46:55.174-05:002010-12-18T04:46:55.174-05:00God really is in the details, as they say. You jus...God really is in the details, as they say. You just reminded me of the finger-smashing scene. Such a simple act and almost treated like a perfunctory rite of passage and banal part of genre story-telling. But we get a succinct moment of hesitation, the point-of-view shot of camera showing his finger as if our own (obtuse, unbeautiful, ordinary yet in prime of life - ready for the pluckin'), and the decisive slam thereafter...isn't that life all wrapped in a few seconds?<br /><br />If you stretch that moment out to great extremes, you're going into body horror as a grasshopper's growing up a la Black Swan:P Different strokes, same stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com