Nocturnal atmosphere, violence on the surface, characters of patibular mobsters reigning over trafficking of all kinds in a Korean city plagued by corruption: Hopeless, Kim Chang-hoon's first film ventures into the land of film noir without blushing or batting an eyelid. You'd think that with the gangsters of Scorsese, Coppola or Brian De Palma, you'd seen it all. We are far from it. Hopeless provides fans of bloody crime novels with a new, visceral, grimy, almost organic flavor. Even if it would have benefited from being shortened, the film presented is akin to an uppercut. Some fight sequences are breathtaking.
In Hopeless, we first meet Yeon-gyu, a lost, somewhat obtuse high school student. In a flash, we discover from the beginning the stakes of the film. The playground filmed flush with the asphalt. A close-up of a sneaker at the end of the race. When the shoe comes out of the screen, it reveals a large pebble...
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