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The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018) N
A little girl escapes from the research facility and ends up living with an aging couple. Ten years later she's a high school student and doesn't remember her past until it finally catches up with her.
So The Witch is basically a combination of Bourne Identity, Hanna and an R-rated superhero film like Logan. It's also distinctly Korean meaning it starts extremely slow and has some dumb humor (especially during the early parts) but after it picks up its pace it has very nice and somewhat brutal action.
I'm a sucker for these films with young girls with superpowers who've been raised in a lab (or at least forced to participate in experiments at some point) and then escape. More messed up, broken or even psychotic they are the better. Amnesia as a plot device is on my hate list but here it's handled much better than usually. So to avoid any confusion I like the lead character and the actress too.
The Witch isn't the most sophisticated and deep film but it's damn entertaining. It has some pacing issues and it's too obviously just a first part of the story (it ends in kind of a cliffhanger). Even some of the actors are kinda weak. Still it matches my cinematic fetish quite nicely and I can't stop liking it.
A little girl escapes from the research facility and ends up living with an aging couple. Ten years later she's a high school student and doesn't remember her past until it finally catches up with her.
So The Witch is basically a combination of Bourne Identity, Hanna and an R-rated superhero film like Logan. It's also distinctly Korean meaning it starts extremely slow and has some dumb humor (especially during the early parts) but after it picks up its pace it has very nice and somewhat brutal action.
I'm a sucker for these films with young girls with superpowers who've been raised in a lab (or at least forced to participate in experiments at some point) and then escape. More messed up, broken or even psychotic they are the better. Amnesia as a plot device is on my hate list but here it's handled much better than usually. So to avoid any confusion I like the lead character and the actress too.
The Witch isn't the most sophisticated and deep film but it's damn entertaining. It has some pacing issues and it's too obviously just a first part of the story (it ends in kind of a cliffhanger). Even some of the actors are kinda weak. Still it matches my cinematic fetish quite nicely and I can't stop liking it.