The place in question is a sex hotel located at a remote place, operating in dim lighting. Though the flickering neon sign advertises ‘good ramen’, the interiors leave much to be concerned. The walls are painted with images of nude women, while room service is offered with beer and local prostitutes’ contact numbers. Such clientele are ideal for the hotel, who are there only for the dirties of thrills, making it’s a safe space for the sexual unsatisfied. The only concern is the max of three discreet cameras positioned on the walls and light fixtures installed. Young Gyu and Min Cheol, the two lackeys, do day-to-day room service though begrudgingly, removing stains, disposing bottles, ensuring all video footage is stored and sent to clients. One stormy night, a room was entered by someone with the name Jeong Soo-kyo and an unconscious woman was seated on his back. The two employees of the hotel were forced to make a decision, reporting it could implicate their whole operation, ignoring it for their own personal gain. Both of these solutions were morally corrupt and unscrupulous tormentors.
It shifts easily into the slasher category: a closed setting, a group of morally ambiguous protagonists, a woman in distress and a devious antagonist who makes the scummy leads feel like the best of the best.
Film Slashers of the Day quite clearly understood what made their chip moral pitfalls. They navigated their moral pitfalls by cashing their chips into pace, violence popular slashers. There’s a ruthless of how he’s telling this story that makes things move, such that the characters rarely are permitted to stop in one place to breathe. Oh’s damsel in distress does this in some way, while the two young idiots who happen to be way in over their heads. Even so, this is where the movie fails, because it has never offered any justification for the cowardly acts of its concierges, although some attempts are made to explain why they accepted that foul job. In the movie, suffering seems to be the only character that defines her, and the film therefore is unable to present her character in a light that is necessary to give beauty to the overall image.
But it does in a way fit into the new Korean drama movement of geared at what money will make people commit in an unjust society alongside “Parasite”, but it does mistakenly in it’s clunky attempts to attempt to portray Young-gyu and Min-cheol as a tragically flawed characters.
Although “The Guest” focuses more on fast-paced action, it can still be inferred from the actions of Young-gyu and Min-cheol, that the film is political at its core. The film blends inequality as another form of misogyny, voyeurism and extortion. But inequality in this case is portrayed as a mental illness adding a shocking twist to what seems to be an ordinary movie. Customers may find aspects of ‘The Guest’ interesting.
Yeon does not need to rely heavily on music when ECHOBRIDGE is present as it is enough to emphasize his talent in the horror film department. There is one horror film that thickly embodies Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s location and tone, and although there is none of the eerie feeling associated with Kurosawa’s classic films, it does other. In Yeon’s case, he seems to put more of emphasis and dependency on music rather than effective silence and quick cuts at the obscured shots which Kurosawa gets a lot of effectiveness out of. Under Jeong Soo-kyo’s direction, he makes the experience a sharp thorn as his killer’s lifeless eyes and visually distracting apparel rest and adds tension to the acids. And it’s those details that do deliver so well, forcing the film to be as mean spirited and focused as it does.
The Guest film is enjoyable right up until the very last scene and even after the ending which I’ll assume most viewers would find uneventful or simply restless but even so the film leaves you both disgusted and impressed. Unlike many other films, this one doesn’t focus on the main character and his attempts to redeem himself or fix his destructive actions. This-piece of work depicts society in a very lifelike way, showcasing just how cruel and vile the world can be. The film doesn’t hesitate to remind us of the deviant actions the man in the film committed and at the same doesn’t over exaggerate the emotional torment of his character. The film certainly angers one and gives them that bitter feeling but it makes it up with humor as well. The three negatives that Farrukh points out in his review can be considered to be more of the directors underlying feelings instead. All in all, the film does an exquisite job portraying Yeon’s mettle enabling viewers to sit through it with ease and comportment.
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