Episode 7: Night in Paradise

Welcome back to our foreign language deviation with another Korean film! Mob violence and emotional drama make for quite the duo when done right. This film happens to excel in the former with a fascinating insight into Korean gang life based mostly in Seoul. It then completely fails to evoke the emotional response we think they were trying for with the latter. It was very interesting to hear the ranking structure and see a culture basically of gentleman criminals, countered with two dysfunctional terminally ill women who either die to soon for us to care or fall flat in their ability to endear us into caring about their deaths. Acting was fairly decent throughout though with shoutouts to Mun-shik Lee as Captain Park and Seung-Won Cha as Director Ma. Catch ya next time with our first (and maybe last cause it was disastrous, maybe because of the movie it covers) Under the Influence episode for Bad Trip!