‘Exumma’: The Yin and the Yang of a Korean blockbuster | Culture | EUROtoday

One of the primary characters of Connecting, The younger and delightful shaman who performs Kim Go-Eun: “People go to me because I am Yin and Yang, science and superstition. In the midst of both poles I move.” The phrase presents her and the film itself, a thriller of horror of huge success in his nation, South Korea, who performs that duality between the earthly and the supernatural to remain in an intermediate place that guarantees greater than he finally ends up providing.

The couple shaped by this mysterious and ethereal younger and an earthly and veteran embalder and tomb exhumator-interpreted by an actor as charismatic as Choi Min-Sik (Old Boy)– It is the most effective trick of a film divided into chapters, whose normal construction doesn’t simply operate in block. Connecting He has a lovely begin, however in the midst of his footage he’s tangled a lot that he loses bellows till he stays in an intrigue of ancestors and curses of the ultratumba too convoluted.

The major thriller of the plot is primed with a new child, firstborn of a rich and highly effective household with a darkish previous. The child stays admitted to a hospital within the United States whereas his father hires a crew of burial consultants and hidden spirits who will allegedly know the way to remedy his son. That salvation goes to dig as much as his nice -grandfather by way of a ritual of land and pork led by the explosive shaman. The invocation of this atavistic ceremony in an extremely -modern and extremely -consisting society awakens, in fact, to an previous demon, a being that asserts its credentials in among the best occurrences of the movie: a horrible snake with a human face!

Connecting It works till it begins to cowl such a broad spectrum of the style (myths and historic legends, ghosts and folklore of horror, unusual {couples}, rattling sagas and previous warriors) that finally ends up being a maze of symbols, spirits and historical past books that, regardless of the endorse Travel past its borders.