Outro Caminho (2017)

Tem uma vibe pesada

O filme começa com um bate papo entre duas pessoas usando nicknames e combinando uma melhor forma de se suicidarem juntas.
Sun Woo é agora um policial rodoviário, mas quando criança sua mãe se suicidou na sua frente e isso o deixou traumatizado.
Jung Won é uma jovem que trabalha em vários empregos de meio período, cuida da mãe que está paralisada e ainda é abusada pelo pai 😭

Gente, sério, esse é um filme com uma vibe tão pesada, os protagonistas fica o tempo inteiro com cara de enterro porque ambos estão quebrados, a vida vem lhes castigando mais a cada dia e eles simplesmente não aguentam mais o sofrimento.

Os dois acabam se encontrando na balsa rumo a ilha onde combinaram de acabar com suas vidas (mas eles não sabem quem é o outro). Eles acabam se "envolvendo" e nisso a gente entende que eles acabam se identificando um com o outro, nos dando a esperança de haver um salvação para eles, mas apesar disso eu achei que faltou mais profundidade e conexão com os personagens para passar aquela vibe do final.

"Another Way" não é um filme que recomendo para qualquer um porque é intenso.

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I understand why this wasn't subbed, the story kinda felt like an exotic foreign film that needs a required taste. You know like they are not really korean drama/movie fans but self proclaimed intellectual "film" fans?

The thing I had the most issues with was the texts xD I gathered that the 2 mains somewhat met as "online pen palls" who never met in person and when they met they didn't know they knew each other? I mean I might need to look at the names of the texts to be sure xD

Anyway. Both were broken souls. The ml was a cop who let a drunk driver through the checkpoint "for a reason or no reason -another missed subless context xD" and that guy got in an accident and hurt a woman and himself too so he was questioned and even got wrongfully accused by the victims husband for taking a bribe.

Now he had more trauma around him. 1 was his girlfriend breaking up on frozen Han River -and I don't know if it was implied that she killed herself? Or they were just talking about how thin ice was.
Anyway his other trauma was his mom cheating on his dad and his dad trying to commit suicide in front of him but he only got half paralyzed? though, the synopsis says it was his mom? so why was his dad sick too? ;)

Then we had the fl. Again things seemed really vague. Her mom was paralyzed and she had to take care of her, she worked for a party planning business(?) And the boss was her dad? Also from that knife scene I kinda felt like she wanted to kill him, because he was the one who hurt her mother?
And her mom telling her "next time take me with you on a vacation" was kinda a sign that she didn't want to stay alone and the fl cried because she knew she wasn't coming back?


fast forward to both ending up in the same island (?) Which both went to so they could kill themselves but then they met and randomly (maybe even wistfully hoping for a life line) they agreed to meet on the day they both wanted to commit suicide. But the ml tried to kill himself before that meeting time so he never went to her even though she waited until the last minute (because she didn't want to do it either!!!) And thankfully a little girl saw the ml drowning and he was saved so his 1st thought was to check on their meeting location and the fl was there locked in her car! But again he was able to help her out while the taxi driver called 911 and so both survived TT__TT it's kinda like a reversed Romeo and Juliet :(
And that was the message "they didn't want to die they just wanted to end the lives they suffered in" TTT____TTT


I feel like the story needed a little more depth and connection between them, like the texts felt too impersonal and maybe they both talked about going to that island to kill themselves and that's why the fl kinda looked like she "recognized" the ml after seeing him in the ferry, and also maybe she did tell him who she was -I blame the lack of subs for missing this- but it needed more especially since it was only 1 hour and 20min. overall I liked it

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