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Actors: Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha Shim, Hang-seon Jang, Jung-ha Yum
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Tell Me Something |
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TELL ME SOMETHING is a Korean movie written and directed by Yoon-hyun Chang in 1999.
The setting is Seoul, South Korea. Detective Cho is asked to find the serial killer who's haunting the city. All the victims were lovers of the beautiful Chae Su-Yeon whom Cho decides to hide in his own apartment. The killer is particularly sadīstic as he dismembers his victims before leaving the remains in bags scattered through Seoul.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Tell Me Something |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Special suspect?
- lover
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- the Koreas
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- diced
- flamed
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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