티빙 영화 추천I recently watched the movie ‘Watching’ starring actor Lee Hak-joo, who is gaining popularity through the Netflix original drama My Name. I was impressed by his role as Jeong Tae-joo, who silently stays by Choi Moo-jin’s side. So I’m currently ‘stamping down’ actor Lee Hak-joo’s filmography. Among them, the movie ‘Watching’ left the strongest impression on me. The plot is really unpleasant. It is a horror thriller about a woman (Kang Ye-won) who is kidnapped in a company parking lot and desperately escapes to avoid the surveillance that is closing in on her. Actor Lee Hak-joo plays the role of the kidnapper. Despite the unpleasant subject matter, if it had been made well, it could have been a highly immersive movie. However, Watching is even a boring movie. As a fan of actor Lee Hak-joo, this is a very regrettable part. Still, I think it’s a movie worth watching for fans of actor Lee Hak-joo. The acting and visuals are good. Perhaps, Watching is a movie that only fans of actor Lee Hak-joo can watch. I’m going to talk about it in detail. Watching Characters
▶Young-woo (Kang Ye-won): Kidnapped in the company parking lot.
▶Jun-ho (Lee Hak-joo): A security guard working in the company parking lot who kidnaps Young-woo.
▶Director Choi (Joo Seok-tae): Young-woo’s boss and is not very good.
▶Min-hee (Im Ji-hyun): Young-woo’s subordinate and is not on good terms with Young-woo.
▶1st floor security guard (Myeong Gye-nam): A security guard on the first floor of the company.
Watching Plot
On Christmas Eve, Young-woo works late into the night. Young-woo goes to the underground parking lot to leave work and is suddenly kidnapped by Jun-ho. Jun-ho tells her that she just needs to spend Christmas Eve with him, but this is not normal. Furthermore, Young-woo wants to go home quickly because her daughter is waiting for her alone at home. Young-woo asks Jun-ho to send her home, but Jun-ho does not listen. Young-woo eventually runs away and is caught by Jun-ho again. Soon, Jun-ho heads somewhere with Young-woo in the passenger seat. However, there, Director Choi, the boss who sexually harassed Young-woo, and Min-hee, a subordinate, were tied up. Jun-ho pressures Young-woo to choose which one to spare. Young-woo begs to spare both of them, but Jun-ho ends up killing Director Choi. Min-hee is released, and Young-woo escapes while Jun-ho is distracted. After that, the tense chase between the chasers and the chased continues. After much difficulty, Young-woo finds the parking lot key and is about to go outside when Director Choi, who was thought to be dead, appears. After that, the story gradually becomes clear. Jun-ho and Director Choi were part of an organization that produced movies using CCTV. Jun-ho was filming a ‘romance movie’ with Young-woo. However, when things didn’t go as planned, he changed the genre to a ‘thriller movie’. However, Jun-ho ends up killing Director Choi and Min-hee. And the movie ends with Young-woo killing Jun-ho. Watching Ending and Impressions
The plot itself was a very unpleasant movie. It seemed like they were trying to make a creepy twist at the end, but it didn’t make me goosebumps. It’s a movie that fans of actress Kang Ye-won won’t be able to see, and only fans of actor Lee Hak-joo will be able to see. If you just take your brain off for a moment while watching the movie, it’s pretty good. There are many scenes where actor Lee Hak-joo is wearing a suit and shedding ‘blood, sweat, and tears’. And in the early scene where he calls Young-woo ‘Young-woo noona’, I even smiled. Of course, it only ended briefly. Jun-ho keeps using the ‘-haessyo’ tone, and this also becomes addictive at some point. It’s a suffix that I often think of even after watching the movie. On the other hand, the ending says that all of this ‘live show’ was part of the movie production. I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to interpret the fact that such a movie came out these days when ‘molka crimes’ are rampant. I had given up on the idea that it would be a movie that criticized reality from the beginning. This is because I couldn’t find any context in the movie that criticized ‘molka crimes’. In fact, if I wasn’t a fan of actor Lee Hak-joo, I would never have pressed the play button on this movie. I wish they would edit out the scenes with Lee Hak-joo separately.
