Chan-wook Park is an amazing director. Oldboy alone is evidence that the man is profoundly talented, and he brings it on full force in Stoker. The emotion, the music and the performances in Stoker and all of his other films is shockingly good and borderline perfect.
Park’s direction is in fact so perfect in Stoker that it’s surprisingly easy to ignore how awful the script is. Yes, this script is awful, it uses tired cliché’s and still manages to make little to no sense. Park understands film as an art form to such a degree that he is able to make an incredibly entertaining film out of almost nothing.
That’s really what Stoker is, style over substance, but not in the way you might suspect. The movie is able to use music, cinematography and editing to forge emotions in the view... |
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