Guns & Talks (2001)

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my new favorite movie. something about these 2000 era korean movies are fanatastic. great casting, heartfelt stories, gritty violence, endearing characters...

upon further analysis, this movie works (for me in particular) because of the combination of lovable characters, cold-blooded violence, humor and heart.

It reminds of Greek comedy: "Aristophanes lampooned the most important personalities and institutions of his day..." by humanizing the divine (which Jang Jin also does in his movie Good Morning President) -or in this case the seemingly ruthless world of assassins- and showing them as incompetent or clueless or emotional in other parts of their lives creates the comedic core of the movie.

And the dialogue is hilarious: For example, while in the confession booth talking about having killed 5 people, the priest responds that that makes a basketball team.

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