Peppermint Candy 2000 123movies

Watch: 박하사탕 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – Young Ho is a depressed middle-aged man. At his old friend group’s reunion, he grows increasingly aggressive until he rushes to the railway to commit suicide. As he screams in regret, we follow the train in reverse, observing the six chapters of his life that led up to his suicide..
Plot: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho’s depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho’s past flood his mind.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 9,640
	86% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 174 Popularity: 11.136 | TMDB

Reviews:

This movie was really beautiful.
“Peppermint Candy” was really a nice surprise of a movie. Initially it started out a little bit strange and slow, but the story quickly kicked in and got under my skin. And once that happened, the movie just swept me away.

The movie starts out where we see a very trouble man at a reunion of sorts and he ends up committing suicide at an oncoming train. Then the story leads us back in time, lettings us travel to crucial points in the man’s past, seeing what caused the man’s current state of mind at the suicide point. So this was a reverse travel, seeing how the man’s psyche changed gradually.

I must say that “Peppermint Candy” was really a beautiful movie, and it was a real visual treat to watch. Especially the train scenes, watching the train drive on the track, but it was filmed in reverse (just pay attention to the surroundings around the tracks, and you will see), and that was a major important factor to the movie, as it was metaphorical for taking us further back in time, to another milestone in the main character’s history.

“Peppermint Candy” is a strong story-driven movie, but it is also driven by some amazing acting performances. The actors and actresses really did great jobs with their given roles, and they made the movie really come to life on the screen. Especially Kyung-gu Sol (playing Yong-ho) did an amazing job with his acting, just as what he did in the 2002 movie “Oasis”. He is phenomenal at this kind of serious acting.

This is another great movie from Third Window Films, and they do deal in movies that are not mainstream Hollywood types of movies. So these movies might not be suitable for the average audience, but appeals to a more sophisticated and mature audience, who want more than just mindless entertainment, but prefer something with depth and meaning, something to challenge us and make us think. And “Peppermint Candy” is just that kind of movie.

If you like Korean movies, and like movies that are heavy on the story-driven aspect, then delve into “Peppermint Candy”, because it is really a breathtakingly beautiful movie, and the story is so well told that it will stick with you for a while. And the reverse chronological order in which the story is told was just a touch of genius.

Violence
‘Peppermint Candy’ is an ambitious movie with a protagonist directly involved in important political (a dictatorial regime, the Gwangju Massacre, torture) and socio-economic (trade unionism, the business world) issues. It is a strong meditation on the history of South Korea, its political problems and the violent repression of democratization movements by the government through the army and the police. These authoritarian interventions demoralized the population and broke the idealism of the South-Korean youth, with the protagonist of this movie as a pars pro toto. He is forced as a soldier to participate in the repression of a student and trade union uprising (the Gwangju Pro-Democracy Movement) and as a police officer in the torture of trade unionists.

For most non-Korean viewers the socio-political events in this movie are probably not well known. A (second) more explicit title for the various episodes would certainly have helped their understanding. Lee Chang-dong used brilliantly very effective symbols, such as people with disabilities (the destabilization of the population), a train for flashbacks or the title (and the distribution of mints during the different ‘bitter’ episodes) as a contrast with the fate of the main character.

This second feature film by Lee Chang-dong is very representative for the movies which could be shot in a freer and more open South Korean society from the 1990s on. Highly recommended.

Other Information:

Original Language ko
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Lee Chang-dong
Writer Lee Chang-dong
Actors Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Yeo-jin, Moon So-ri
Country South Korea, Japan
Awards 17 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm