Park Chan-Wook gave me an 11/10 movie with Oldboy. I cannot in good conscience say any movie apart from Parasite reaches that level, for me personally. But everything else around that centrepiece is always a 9 or 10. I connect personally to all his films. For example, in Lady Vengeance, I so vividly remember the colour palette going from B&W to colour (or colour to B&W depending on the version you watched) and being so drawn into the storytelling because of it. I didn
When asked about what they would change in regard to their films, most filmmakers say, "I'd still be stuck in a dark room with my editor ironing out scenes again and again and again till I get them right. The only reason the film is being released now is that there is a pre-set release date." The opportunity afforded to writer/director Sandeep Reddy Vanga when helming Kabir Singh is one in a million. He was given a chance to comb through Arjun Reddy, identify its strengths and shortcomings, and make his retelling of that story, better. The million-dollar question now is, "Did he do it?"
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