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Wind River (2017)

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Assasin's Creed (2016)

So glad i watched this again, i think it's one of my favourite films as i said the main guy being so fallible and how devastating it is makes it pretty incredible IMO. The thing that's devastating to me is Kim Sun-woo's role and what his death at the end was for. Kim Sun-woo at first is a generic muscle man for a powerful crime boss. He is given the task of essentially babysitting the bosses much younger girlfriend and is given orders to kill her and her love if his suspicions that she is having an affair are correct, he's clearly already a killer at this point and while killing a woman may be problematic it should be a routine task; he actually tries to get out of it and to me the reason seemed to be that it was beneath him rather than anything else. He then meets and falls for her, they spend a couple of days together then he confirms his bosses suspicions that she was having an affair. This was particularly devastating to him because he cares for her and i imagine was entertaining thoughts of being with her himself. His feelings for her stops him from carrying out his bosses orders and instead of killing them he tells both of them they can never see one another again. That's where Kim Sun-woo and Yoon Hee-soo's interactions ends which is partly whats devastating to me, i don't remember when that happens exactly, the film is two hours long i doubt that's anymore than 40 minutes in leaving us with the majority of the film. Now there's Yoon Hee-soo; there's no indication that she feels the same about Kim Sun-woo, it would actually be pretty weird if she did. They only spent one proper day together and regardless of the reasons for it he is the one that forbids her from seeing her lover something she is not happy with. Her reaction to that indicates that the person she is seeing isn't just a sexual partner but someone she cares about; likely loves. I mean the only other scenario here is Kim killing both of them, he's putting himself at great risk here and still she is seriously pissed at him and saddened by it. Now Yoon is obviously not dumb, she is musically talented and from their conversations doesn't come across like some bimbo. That's the thing from their conversations she is the more dynamic and in control one and i don't believe that's only supposed to be his feelings for her and her connection to his boss, i think she is alot smarter than him. She is most likely manipulating him, her goal is probably to get him to like her so he may let his guard down and she can continue having her affair. The thing is we see her purely from the persona she wants to portray to him and from his memories of her at the end, obviously compromised and sugarcoated memories because it's only one image we see of her (the one i used for my picture) in his memories one of her smiling at him with her violin, no mention of the animosity. Then i find it doubtful that she was forced into a relationship with his boss, i doubt it's supposed to be that he just decided she was his girlfriend and she was practically a slave. We don't find out her history so i think it's much more likely that she floated in his circles and the much more refined version of her we see is due to the wealth she has sought out from becoming his girlfriend; her being a good person is a conclusion he comes to and we watch rather than her ever being demonstratably good in the film. This all leads me to conclude that she was playing him, she thought (and was probably correct since it worked) that he was a dumb brute and she could easily lead him on and manipulate the situation as she pleased. There's no indications that he is smart in any way, street smart but that's not the same thing as generally intelligent or even competent, i don't believe he's an idiot but i do believe he could be played by a more intelligent person like her. Meaning our protagonist is a dumb, pathetic, sadsack and that once she is out of the picture we are watching him travel towards his death for absolutely nothing. Couple that with him being fallible like i said earlier; every fight he is in is really messy and he is terrible with guns, the whole thing is so different to any similar superhero mafia hitman/special agent film i've seen including those three other Korean ones i mentioned.