Oh Jesus Christ this movie was out there.
Granted I have a huge fascination with Asian cinema and definitely love South Korean movies quite a lot, so of course I jumped at the chance to watch "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (aka "Flandersui gae") when I stumbled upon by random chance in 2019 - a mere 19 years after it was initially released.
Given the high rating it had on IMDb, I was believing that I was in for a treat. Which I actually also was, but not a treat of the good kind. How this movie managed to score this high of a rating is simply beyond my comprehension. Because this movie was unfathomably slow paced and it had such a scrambled mess of a storyline that it was literally painful to bear witness to.
Sure, the movie had some good acting performances and Doona Bae really carried the movie quite well with her aloof performance. But wow, this movie was quite far from being entertaining. And the slow pacing of the storytelling just seemed to prolong the ordeal and suffering that is "Barking Dogs Never Bite".
Once the movie ended I was sitting dumbfounded on the couch thinking to myself "was that really it?" I was so disillusioned with the outcome of this movie and had expected something quite else frankly, given the high rating the movie had scored here on IMDb.
And the movie starts out by proclaiming "no animals were hurt during the filming of the movie". Right! Well just how do you explain the two scenes where dogs were suspended into the air by the leash around their neck. Suffocating of an animal right there. No animals were hurt... yeah right!
I have watched it to the end, so I can now check it off the list, and I can in all honesty say that I am never returning to watch this movie a second time.
Granted I have a huge fascination with Asian cinema and definitely love South Korean movies quite a lot, so of course I jumped at the chance to watch "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (aka "Flandersui gae") when I stumbled upon by random chance in 2019 - a mere 19 years after it was initially released.
Given the high rating it had on IMDb, I was believing that I was in for a treat. Which I actually also was, but not a treat of the good kind. How this movie managed to score this high of a rating is simply beyond my comprehension. Because this movie was unfathomably slow paced and it had such a scrambled mess of a storyline that it was literally painful to bear witness to.
Sure, the movie had some good acting performances and Doona Bae really carried the movie quite well with her aloof performance. But wow, this movie was quite far from being entertaining. And the slow pacing of the storytelling just seemed to prolong the ordeal and suffering that is "Barking Dogs Never Bite".
Once the movie ended I was sitting dumbfounded on the couch thinking to myself "was that really it?" I was so disillusioned with the outcome of this movie and had expected something quite else frankly, given the high rating the movie had scored here on IMDb.
And the movie starts out by proclaiming "no animals were hurt during the filming of the movie". Right! Well just how do you explain the two scenes where dogs were suspended into the air by the leash around their neck. Suffocating of an animal right there. No animals were hurt... yeah right!
I have watched it to the end, so I can now check it off the list, and I can in all honesty say that I am never returning to watch this movie a second time.