"Korean's make a lot of good movies these days" said jayan Chettan. One of the two biggest movie buffs I have ever met (other person is Sachin, who would get some space on this blog shortly) he talks about movies all the time. It's after conversations with him that I started my search for good foregin movies.
The only memorable foreign movie which I saw till then was "My Life is beautiful". The oscar award ensured that the DVD was available in my local video shop. Such a beautiful movie, but there was no other movie for which the video was available.
The search for foreign movies had been a rewarding one, and korean movies are indeed good, and I am sure to spare a lot of time writing about the best ones I saw in my Blog.
One common idea you find in most of the discussion forums related to foreign movies is that they are better than english movies. reall?. I do have to agree that the koreans and iranians makes a lot of good movies, but how many have we seen to be sure that overall they are better than the english film industry...
If anyone asks me for a suggestion on hindi movies, I would say lagaan or Taare Zameen par. If someone watches them and assumes that the hindi movies are just great, how wrong can he be?. for each Taare zameen Par there are quite a lot of "Om Shanthi Oms"...
So, I still believe we are just seeing a couple of classics from the foreign languages and getting biased. Of course I would love to be proved wrong ...:)
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