KOREAN MOVIE REVIEW:THE WAILING
9/10 Jong Joo is a small town policeman, who lives a simple life with his wife, mother and a little daughter. One morning he is awaken by a phone - there's been a murder. When he arrives at the scene he finds the family slaughtered and the culprit, the family member, out of his mind and covered in blood and furuncles, sitting on the front porch. This is just the beginning of the series of misfortunes of the little town. When Jong Joo’s daughter starts to behave strangely, t sets off a race against time to find the real culprit. Is it a strange Japanese man who lives alone in the forest and practices satanic rituals? Or is it something more sinister the words can describe? South Korean director Hong Jin Nah has made only two feature films and both of them are among my favorites. His third feature THE WAILING had been 6 years in making. His unique way to structure the story is straightforward, but also dreamlike, is nothing you had ever seen. A modern viewer has certai