Saturday, March 16, 2013

Twitch: Review: PERFECT NUMBER Is a Handsome but Frustrating Adaptation

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Review: PERFECT NUMBER Is a Handsome but Frustrating Adaptation
Mar 17th 2013, 04:30

I originally saw Bang Eun-jin's sophomore film Perfect Number at the Busan International Film Festival last October. I am a big fan of the Japanese book (The Devotion of Suspect X by Higashino Keigo) that it was based on and as I felt that the story would be a great fit for Korean cinema my expectations were very high. Too high it seems as I found myself a little disappointed by a film delivering something I wasn't expecting. A reclusive math teacher is smitten with his next-door neighbor who lives with her niece. One day her ex-husband comes to visit and a violent altercation ends with his lifeless corpse hitting the ground. The teacher has heard what transpired and knocks on their door. Quiet, composed...

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