Jan 2, 2010

An Education

It’s official. I am in ♡ with Carey Mulligan.

An Education is a coming of age story of a young girl on doorstep of adulthood and also an honest look at sexual politics and a woman’s place in the world during the early1960s.

Outstanding performances from the cast comprising of Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson and Sally Hawkins.

It is also the breakout performance of Carey Mulligan whom I have fallen so in love with.

Must watch!

The Case of Itaewon Homicide

The movie is based on an unsolved murder case at a hamburger chain in Seoul’s Itaewon district, where an innocent college student was stabbed to death by a stranger. Two Korean-American teenagers, prime suspects of the murder case, blamed each other for the horrific crime. The suspects threw contradictory evidence at investigators, creating confusion about what actually happened.

Since the movie is based on an unsolved murder case, I expected the movie to be another Memories of Murder. The movie somehow didn’t appeal to me. Found it boring. However it did manage to show how the Korean justice system managed to botch a simple homicide where the suspects were freed when one of them was the real killer.