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Allan has seen a film that I have not um
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which I want to hear about it's veteran
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2i executioner Allan tell me about this
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film well this is from uh South Korea it
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is the sequel to the very popular
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veteran uh it's called I executioner
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veteran refers to a team of uh of Major
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Crimes investigators so uh I think what
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I like about this movie
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uh is well yeah what I like about the
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movie is um South Korea and United
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States I believe are very similar in
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their taste in how stories are told uh
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especially crime stories and uh I
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executioner I the Executioner is one of
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those crime stories that's going to be
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feel fairly familiar to you but you're
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going to kind of see it through uh the
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South Korean cultural lens but what's
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Happening Here is there's a serial
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killer on the loose but this serial
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killer kills uh bad people for example
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the movie opens with a professor who uh
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sexually assaulted his uh one of his
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students uh I think it was like a a
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teacher's aid and she wound up unal
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living herself and uh so uh this serial
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killer grabs him throws basically uh
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puts him in a chair films IT issues a
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warning to the entire world uh virally
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uh and then throws them off the roof uh
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to crash to the the ground and die and
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and the interesting thing about this is
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uh uh this this vigilante uh like Batman
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like the Joker maybe even uh gets a
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following uh it it raises a social
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question of if the police and the
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justice system a is incompetent
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prosecute these bad people then maybe
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someone else should go and prosecute
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them prosecute criminals for them or B
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is the justice system and uh and the law
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enforcement so corrupt that they're not
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a and therefore we need a vigilante to
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do this and this is kind of the the Crux
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the theme of the story that goes
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throughout this uh we follow the major
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crimes uh uh department just chasing
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this guy uh you know when they find out
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his Mo they they they figure out who the
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next Target will be and they put this
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guy into protective custody hoping to
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flush out the uh the serial killer
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um and two things happen one they flush
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him out and B the guy gets killed
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anyways uh and um and then what's also
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interesting is the revelation of who who
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the serial killer is which happens
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halfway through the movie and once that
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Revelation occurs the entire movie
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changes um when I say it's similar to
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American films you got your chases you
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got a good CH car chase a lot of Parkour
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that's where a lot of the action comes
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in there's a tumble down a very long
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flight of stairs that is very brutal um
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at the end when the serial killer uh
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basically goes after government um it
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becomes kind of like saw type traps you
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know a decision has to be made uh you
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know do you want to protect a loved one
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or do you want to save these criminals
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you know and that's uh that's that's
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this movie um it's fairly long it's
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about two and a half hours long it is in
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theaters at the moment played at Toronto
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International Film Festival um I
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recommend it like I said I I like South
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Korean movies because they feel like
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American movies uh they're just
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unencumbered by uh by political
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correctness and wokeness um there
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there's to women in this that you know
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you know a Hollywood studio exec would
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say you can't have that and that's what
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I mean by unencumbered are they
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okay I'm just yeah I I agree with you I
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love Korean films um and it's like they
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you're right they don't care about um
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woke nonsense they just they do I'll say
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this Korean films do American movies
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better than America does American movies
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Thrillers crime Thrillers like
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this you know I mean it's fairly
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standard when it comes to a crime
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Thriller but I think it's better than
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what you'll see it's uh you know it's
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you know I'll liken this to Bad Boys the
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last one we saw um it's less Swagger
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less stars in it but uh it's a you know
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there's a light tone of this movie U but
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there's a deadly tone of this movie as
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well um and then you know like violence
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against women they're not doing it for
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the sake of just being able to do it but
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it plays a part in the story and it
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makes sense because you know if uh if
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you're running from the cops and you're
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running for your life and a woman is in
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the way um you're G to do what you need
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to do to survive and uh you know that's
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what I mean by they don't care about
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correctness well I love that so now you
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convince me because I saw I could have
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seen this but now I want to that's great
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so uh you recommend it I recommend it
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it's you know I've seen gritty Korean
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films this one's a little bit tends to
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be a little bit lighter um like I said
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it's kind of got that uh bad boys kind
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of humor to it uh but it's still still
