The Berlin File

The Berlin File

Berlin File is a South Korean spy movie in Berlin.

The North Korean spy Pyo Jong-Seong(Ha Jung-Woo) was set up during a failed illegal arms trade.

His wife Ryu Jung-Hee (Jeon Ji-Hyun) is a interpreter for the North Korean embassy in Berlin.

Pyo Jong-Seong tried to figure out who betrayed him and realised that his own wife or his own country has set him up during the illegal arms trade.

The first scene shows a Korean man injecting himself something the viewer just can guess that this is maybe a drugs.

Than the place changes to Hackischer Markt in Berlin where the same person buys a 'Döner' to get information's where he must go.

Everything is very unclear for the viewer at first and I must say the movie is not really clear until the end.

I think it is quite funny that he bought a 'Döner' to get on his information's. 

'Döner' is a famous fast food from Berlin. 

The place he must go is the West Grand Hotel in Berlin which is in the Friedrichstraße.

While the actor cross the traffic light towards Alexanderplatz, so he went the wrong direction than from Hackischer Markt to Friedrichstraße is just one station with the train away.

But the little mistake we can correct if we say he took a long way and took a tram in that direction!

Than we see a deal with a Russian arms broker and a Arab who seems like a terrorist.

(No way there are prejudices right at the start of the movie)

The South Korean interrupted the deal and an Israeli tries to save them from the South Koreans.

( Now you get my prejudice mark?)

At the end Jong-Seong can't figure out who has betrayed him to the South Koreans, but he guess there must be a double agent in the North Korean embassy.

In a other scene then we can see how his wife interprets German to Korean for a North Korean during the meeting they are bugged and a waitress delivers the tape of the meeting to a South Korean man. 

While she delivered the tape to the South Korean man the North Korean spy saw everything.

The North Korean man follows the waitress at the end both are greeting each other and the viewer gets that both must know each other what explains how he could know where she is right at the moment.

But minutes later the waitress is dead and he knows his own wife must have betrayed him.

( Side note: OMG the German actress  can't act ...the reason why I don't like German movies.
So worse.. can't explain how faked her acting looks)

That's just the start of every happening event afterwards.

More I don't want to write about the plot.

I just can say everything is a bit confusing and that  the end is an open end.

At first you don't see any blood much but really soon the movie starts to be really violent.

I swear the American actor is not an real American also the Germans are definitely not all native Germans in the movie.

Some scenes are really unrealistic in the movie she tried to go from Friedrichstraße to Brandenburger Tor, beside it is only a foot way from 15min she went to the train station, because there are people who are giving her information's so that's fine, but then she is in a subway......WHAT?
She took the the train to Hauptbahnhof to get in the subway? Which is 20min?
You only need 5min if you take the S1 from Friedrichstraße train station were she was, because Brandenburger Tor is only one station away from Friedrichstraße....

Also to add is that the Romanian in the movie looks more like and Indian person than a Romanian person.

For people who never were in Berlin it is really confusing to understand why he pushed her so hard away.

Romanians in Berlin are asking you: 'Do you speak English?' to get money from you if you say no or you even spoke them you don't get easily so pushing away is really a solution in that moment.

Beside that WTF moment of mine and the really dirty and dark apartments. 

I think the movie is not that thrilling. Everything is a bit confusing and the South Koreans are not really clever.

The movie is getting clearer at the end for the viewer  and the viewer can slowly understand who has betrayed who but the climax is still missing for me.

To say something positive the movie shows beautiful places of Berlin and sometimes it is thrilling.
Every person seems to have their own secrets so it is even more thrilling to know whats happens next but with every secret you don't really figure out how everyone is really connected with each other.

BUT! What I really love in that movie is the acting! I'm a big fan of Jeon Ji-hyun and I really love her acting...

She is one of the best actresses in Korea! She is not only beautiful, no she can really act and in the whole movie she is not a beauty but an actress without make up.

 That why I really like her acting.

Ha Jung-Woo the male lead actor is also a good actor not my favourite but he is doing  more than just a good job.

                                       

What I also really love in that movie are the realistic scene.

One of them is when a German policeman couldn't understand English. Oh, yes people around the world they don't know English well.. Also where there mentioned everything in Germany is recorded! That's so true!

At the end is to say about the movie as a viewer you can see Berlin as a beautiful city.

There are great actors in the movie with a lot of action and thrilling scenes.

For me it is 3 of 5 stars.

There are better North and South Korean movies just as an example 'Secret Reunion'.

The movie is confusing and not that thrilling how the movie could be as a Korean movie.

For the plot and everything I just would give 2 stars, but the actors are great and Berlin is presented well also a lot of culture facts are true in the movie even if there are some prejudices so I say one more star.

I'm not recommending this movie only if you have too much time and want to see a movie which is played in Berlin or you like an actor in the movie but the movie is not that special to be seen.

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warm bodies

warm bodies

This moive is going to be my first post for my blog.
At first I was not that sure to buy the movie...but ya just 10€ for a new movie? Why not.
I know a friend of mine who watched that movie and really loves the movie.
To say is that I haven't read the book, but I think I going to do it now !

Anyway let's start my review.

The movie starts really interesting every person seems a bit fake dead and the music in the background underlines the feeling that the movie is not a serious type of movie.
I really love the explanation why they all staying at the airport and he is living in air plane I think it is really true ( you wanna know the explanation? Watch the movie!)!

I also love that 'R' is not the normal type of zombie everyone expects him to be.
The 'bonies' are a bit creepy and seem more like real zombies. 

So the viewer can quick emotional relate to the so called corpses. I think that is clever done, because you get from the start that the other zombies are not the bad ones.

I think 'R''s friend and their conversation together is really funny done. How both are staring at each other mumbling is hilarious!

It is so cute...(and oh yes the skin colour is so white of the zombies in the movie that they are really unattractive and the lead actor is average looking! So they don't look cute but their behaviour is really cute in a way).

So after 'R introduced you to his world  the viewer starts to get him more and understands his world better.

Wait! A zombie apocalypse without humans in a movie? NO WAY!

Actually some humans survived like always.
You see how a monkey actually spread the virus?! ( Monkeys are indeed creepy but it is a bit mean to say it's their fault...)
So you see some people standing in front of a wall at first you don't know who they are what they are and so on...but later it gets explained.
The wall separates the humans from the zombies so the virus can't be spread to the last humans who survived.
Also soon an older mend talks to them explains that the corpses are not human and GOD BLESS AMERICA...You see the female and the one male are in a relationship but the male is not that into her like the other way around.

Later in the movie their relationship is going to be explained and the viewer can understand why the boyfriend changed.

'R' and his friend searching for food, because they get this unstoppable hunger...while they walk they see a bonie one eating a human body...the zombies were scared and actually shocked how he ate the human...they stopped for a moment and rushing quick to their destination afterwards.

So back to the humans they are searching for medicine and then 'R' and his friends are coming and the fight starts. The humans wants to live and the zombies their brains. (yummy)
As a viewer you can see how desperate they want to be more human again, so that explains the bonie scene more.

The bonie just ate the human.'R' explains that the brain is the best part, because they can start to feel a bit more human if they eat the brain.

The whole zombie concept is well thought out and as a viewer you are not seeing a strange world.

Anyway the zombie met the beauty and the movie turns into a love movie. I think the scene is well done with the music and the viewer starts to laugh, because of the music. I think the music is John Waite with missing you
Also the music and  the car scene showed how both developed feelings for each other.
The soundtrack of the movie is really well done chosen.

After he took her in his world there are really cute and funny moments and the viewer can see how both are getting closer step by step.

Nicholas Hoult as 'R' is not that good looking and as a zombie he is even more not.

Teresa Palmer as Julie is the typically beauty and honestly her acting is not that good in the movie but some scenes she is really good.Best scene is while she tried to be a zombie this scene is really funny.

                                

Nicholas Hoult instead played really good his role the whole movie.

Nicholas Hoult played better, because you got his feelings just without him saying anything.
You could hear his thoughts only, but it is harder to act without actually saying anything also you really think as a viewer that he is a living dead. I think Teresa Palmer is not that bad, but sometimes she has a blank face or the face again. Sometimes she also did really well, but Nicholas Hoult is from the beginning until the end a really good actor. 

At first you hear always 'R' thoughts which I think is really cool, his thoughts are like a teenager sometimes which is quite funny often. As a viewer you understands his problems really well, because while you are/ were young you are/was the same.
Later he talks more I really missed this thoughts at the end.

The zombies and the bonies are getting in a fight so the movie is also really exciting.

Even if the lead actor is not that pretty and the lead actress not the best actress I think I would recommend the movie and say it is actually a really funny movie, but more black humour kind of way funny.

So what makes the movie so damn special?
I think the story I never saw like that before, the music is well chosen to the scenes, how the love story is, the cure for the zombies, war human vs. zombies, fight bonies against zombies, development of 'R', how human and living can come together and the humour is sarcasm but funny!

Also the love story is really interesting!

Because I enjoyed the movie from the start until the end I will give 4 to 5 of my stars.

Why just 4? At first the movie is not that special you can really say what gonna happen and second the acting is a bit weak of the lead actress.

So thumbs up for a untypically zombie movie.