Comments on: Beat (1997) Movie Review http://www.beyondhollywood.com/beat-1997-movie-review/ Hollywood, Indie, Asian, Foreign, Horror, and Genre Movie Reviews and News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:21:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jessie Marksman http://www.beyondhollywood.com/beat-1997-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-79417 Jessie Marksman Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:03:47 +0000 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1594#comment-79417 I don't think this movie is average because it the storyline wasn't original. The storyline may have been told in America but not in Korea. Cultures are so different throughout the world I thought it was interesting to see what a gangster's life might be like in South Korea. Immigrants living a life in America struggled because of oppression and dealing with culture clash. Many second generation immigrants struggled the most, being smack in the middle of a culture clash. This caused quite a number of people to rebel and turn towards the dark path to substitute for family connections, brotherhood, and to find a sense of belonging. "Beat" shows a totally different situation, not of oppression, but within it's own culture dealing with the dark side of life. Seeing the utter importance of education and feelings of desperate fear of ghosts are not included in other gangster movies. For younger generations in Korea, I'm sure this movie impacted their hearts and minds. So please, don't compare movies to other movies in other countries!! Grr... Even the same movie shown in one country and another could mean something or impact a person completely differently.... Geez. I don’t think this movie is average because it the storyline wasn’t original. The storyline may have been told in America but not in Korea. Cultures are so different throughout the world I thought it was interesting to see what a gangster’s life might be like in South Korea.

Immigrants living a life in America struggled because of oppression and dealing with culture clash. Many second generation immigrants struggled the most, being smack in the middle of a culture clash. This caused quite a number of people to rebel and turn towards the dark path to substitute for family connections, brotherhood, and to find a sense of belonging.

“Beat” shows a totally different situation, not of oppression, but within it’s own culture dealing with the dark side of life. Seeing the utter importance of education and feelings of desperate fear of ghosts are not included in other gangster movies.

For younger generations in Korea, I’m sure this movie impacted their hearts and minds.
So please, don’t compare movies to other movies in other countries!! Grr… Even the same movie shown in one country and another could mean something or impact a person completely differently…. Geez.

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