Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

chuangzuo The story takes place in South Korea. The movie is very different from South Korea's TV show. These TV shows have usually a lot of romance, like the "soaps" in US. But this movie is more profound. You can feel the pain or the joy of the characters. It is probably the best performance of Cecilia Cheung. I really discovered her in that movie. Before that I knew her from her songs (not that good, sorry), and some Hong Kong comedies. Min-sik Choi is amazing. We can believe how he feels about everything in life.Failan is a very good love story. The mix of Cantonese, Mandarin and Korean languages is great. And the photography is delicious. It is certainly in my best 10 movies of all time. I recommend this movie to people who like movies with deep emotions.

lee_samurai_e Though i really like drama/romance movies from all over the world like my sassy girl, this one is definitely one of the most boring movies I ever saw in my whole life... The acting was quite good, but the script/scenario/directing was amazingly bad, it's like they meant to make this movie so boring. For me the action continuum of this movie was a flat line, no ups, no dawns just a STRAIGHT STRAIGHT line. The scenario is so unrealistic, let me give you an idea: the "bad guy" who is a crook marry the "good and sensitive girl" just for the money. The "good girl" marry him to get visa and work legally in the country. They never meet, never speak to each other, but they somehow crazily get in love with each other! wow, amazing! and after 115min of watching I was wondering where is the romance? where is the action, what happened ? haw did they fall in love? what is going on??? and nothing... I believe this movie is just an "Incredibly boring movie " i recommend you to see this movie only if you are already in bead, and want to trow away 115 minutes of your life, I was just amazingly disappointed of this movie. In my opinion it is not worth renting, watching, occupying space in your mind... this is just my friendly and sincere opinion.

Young Alexander I am a Chinese viewer of this movie so that Cecillia Cheung was very familiar to me. Actually I watched the movie because I was a fans of her. However, after watching the film, I was not only moved by her beauty of purity, but much more by the magnificent story and eye-and-heart-catching performances by Cheung, as well as that of actor Choi Ming-Shik.I've been aside while my girlfriend watched the movie but I did not actually got to understand what the film was talking about. And the moment I did, I just could not help feeling so heart-broken that tears went down my cheeks. It was not an exaggeration of emotion that forced the tears, but the feeling thrived deep in my mind found its way out through my tears. I was not only moved to feel sorry, but also warm, since it is a love that has never been seen elsewhere, so faint between the two, yet strong enough to sustain the two's lives, and change their tracks of them.After the movie, I've got some rational ideas to share with my friends here. We see the two, Failan and Kang-Chai. They are the most trivial parts of our world, one girl with no relatives or skills to depend on to survive in a strange foreign country, and a 2nd class rogue who is even thought less of by his "colleagues" in the gang. They did not even know each other before or well after their marriage, yet at their most difficult times, and ends of lives, it was this love, derived from imagination that told them to hang on, and to realize their only proof of existence on this planet. We seek for love in our real lives, yet never has been such a love seen. I guess, after all, we are to see and realize ourselves in every period of love, and in the permanent pursue of love, not our partners. And it is this self-realization that is the uttermost meaning of human lives. However, I am not criticizing this pursue as selfish conducts, rather, this is the most profound form of humanity.And it is for this meaning depicted so vividly and thought-worthy, I rate this movie a full 10.

pinkston Failan is the first movie out of Korea I had ever seen. As I sat down to watch the film, I didn't know quite what to expect, although I have seen plenty of American melodramas and other Asian films. Simply put, I was blown away. I can't really describe why I am still so touched by this movie, but I think that is part of the beauty of it.I have had discussions with others about the film and the biggest qualm seems to be that the first half's violence doesn't quite work with the second half's intense drama. I wholeheartedly disagree. It is important that Kang-jae's development as a character comes quickly and seemingly out of nowhere. Without him being set up as such a despicable personality in the first half of the film, the power of the film completely misses. Is his transition too unbelievable? Although under false pretenses, Failan is the first and only person who has ever cared, trusted and believed in Kang-jae. Would this not change you? The film constantly beats on Kang-jae through most of the film (a role typical for Choi Min-sik), so this really sets up the tragedy at the end of the film - with Kang-jae forever unable to fulfill his second chance.