Watch: 아이들… 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – The film is based on a true case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the “disappearance of the frog children.” In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs. They went missing..
Plot: On March 26, 1991, five boys set off to the mountain to go frog hunting and never come back to their family. While a documentary producer, detective and professor try to solve the mystery of the incident, one of the boys’ parents is a suspect.
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A thriller with integrity and soul- Amazing exploration of Crime
I am a big admirer of Korean cinema. It has its distinct style of screenplay, characterization, storytelling and a definitive panache of humor. Movies like Memories of Murder, The Chaser, Mother, Voice of Murderer and Oldboy etc. There are several movies which has the cinematic tenets at its best.Based on the true events, ‘Children’ depicts a case of 5 missing children in 1991. There begins a series investigations to search the children through many clues and clicks. The revelations are well timed and keep you at the edge of your seat.
The screenplay is water-tight which never loses the focus. Characterization is the key feature and it allows the viewers to connect with the characters, every character is so believable that you will feel their agony. The story has many folds and all the serendipitous discoveries are top notch.
The direction is perfect, it explores every occurrence immaculately. The desperation of media and incompetency of the police are portrayed flawlessly.
Acting is at its peak, every actor has played the part with utmost honesty and tangibility. The emotions, distress and panic of the characters are just believable.
A thriller like this is a benchmark for this genre.
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Shattering Drama
Another example of fine filmmaking from Korea, Children begins with elementary school boys playing together, like kids everywhere, running and laughing, without a care in the world. The mood changes quickly when they are reported missing, and a search involving thousands of volunteers is undertaken with no results. The parents quit their jobs to look for their sons full time. A television producer who has won a prize for his nature documentary gets into trouble when his boss finds out that he faked some of the scenes in his film, and he is demoted and transferred. He wants to regain his reputation, so he teams up with a college professor to solve the case of the missing boys. They come up with a theory that one boys parents were involved and they get the police to help dig up the fathers property to find the buried bodies. Nothing is found and the TV man and the prof are disgraced. Ten years after the original disappearances, a monsoon and flooding reveals some bones, which after forensic exams, turn out to be the five boys. The police quickly try to rule the cause of death as hypothermia because of embarrassment in not solving the case, but the coroner concludes that they were murdered. The TV producer returns to follow up and becomes tied up with a possible suspect. The ending is somewhat ambiguous and I was left wondering about the real story that the movie is based on. The acting is superb, but at over two hours, Children could have been edited by fifteen minutes, as it is too slowly paced. Even with the small criticisms, it is a shattering drama.
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Genre Mystery, Thriller
Director Kyu-maan Lee
Writer Hyeon-jin Lee, Kyu-maan Lee
Actors Yong-woo Park, Seung-ryong Ryu, Dong-il Sung
Country South Korea
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