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A Bittersweet Life: When Mind and Heart Move
Kim Jee-woon's "A Bittersweet Life" is less a crime drama and more a philosophical treatise dressed in the razor-sharp suit of a gangster film. From its opening invocation"It is not the wind and trees that move, it is your mind and heart that move"the film announces itself as something far more profound than a simple revenge narrative.
The cinematography is a masterclass in controlled chaos. Kim Jee-woon doesn't just frame scenes; he choreographs them with the precision of a ballet and the brutality of a street fight. Each frame feels like a carefully composed painting, reminiscent of Park Chan-wook's "Oldboy", but with a distinctly personal touch that prevents it from feeling derivative. ...