Yesterday with a few minutes left until the New Year, I watched the Monica Bellucci film Malena. It was pretty good but all the scenes where there is a sexual encounter with the boy and Malena was pretty disturbing. It's interesting to note that had sexes been reversed, there would've been an uproar. Poor Malena, the men always staring at her and the women hating on her. Everyone is just whispering about her, all because she's so pretty. I watched the US edit of it so some of the beatdown of Malena was cut out. It was still pretty brutal, though.



I also just watched the Korean gangster flick A Bittersweet Life by Kim Ji-woon. It was a LOT like Oldboy, even some of the music reminded me of a certain track from the Oldboy OST. Aside from that, some of the violence reminded me of Park Chan Wook films. The guy who's teeth get extracted in Oldboy also has a role in ABL. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. The shootout at the end was something like a John Woo gun-fu scene and the ending was ... surprising? If I interpreted correctly, I guess.