{"id":1027,"date":"2008-11-09T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2008-11-09T18:08:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T01:08:52","slug":"the-chaser-na-hong-jin-2008-south-korea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008): South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jason Sanders.  Viewed at the ArcLight theater, AFI Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1E9D58BF-C499-4CAB-BF3E-9D366DF43833\/chaser1.jpg\" alt=\"chaser1.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"320\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/>For the first film I was going to watch during the festival, I have to admit, I had a lot of expectations. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1190539\/\" target=_new>The Chaser<\/a>\u00a0blew all of my expectations away. \u00a0In the first few scenes, \u00a0I was already shocked, and disturbed by what the film maker had done with the story. \u00a0Hong-jin had already presented a short yet shocking twist to the story that has not yet been revealed. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was a shocking tale of a detective turned pimp, who strangely has girls running away, at least thats what he thinks. \u00a0When his best girl goes missing, he turns to his detective skills and goes on his own to find her. \u00a0When he discovers who she was with last, it becomes crazy, and a chase for the girl, and a way to find out the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The way the film was presented was in a way to shock, and to make the audience think and always guessing. \u00a0As I watched, i notice details that reminded me of certain films, such as SAW, and realized that the scene that made me think of the film, was portrayed as realistic as possible and made me think of SAW as another fictional horror film. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I would hope that other horror\/thriller\/mystery fans would see this movie, and it would give them a whole new definition of the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jason Sanders. Viewed at the ArcLight theater, AFI Film Festival. For the first film I was going to watch during the festival, I have to admit, I had a lot of expectations. \u00a0The Chaser\u00a0blew all of my expectations away. \u00a0In the first few scenes, \u00a0I was already shocked, and disturbed by what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2008","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}