My first Park Chan-Wook film and now I see what everyone is going so bananas about. I’ve never quite seen a movie like this before. Emotionally, it is all over the map — from slick “Oceans 11”-style caper, to dead-pan “Napoleon Dynamite” comedy to intense and frightening grief. How do you shoot scenes of (offscreen) child torture? Seriously — how do you call action and cut and have 11 year old girls scream “Mommy, please, he’s going to kill me!?!??!” and then take lunch? How does that happen? Despite these harrowing moments, this is not a violent film. It is a gorgeous film to look at (every shot is a painting – and Yeong-ae Lee is, as they say in South Korea, quite a dish) and it is a baffling film. There were full-on fifteen minute blocks where I had NO idea what was going on. It all made sense in the end. I recommend this movie quite a bit.