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Simply A Masterpiece

Sadly Over-hyped

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Usually films that fit into the genre tend to sway towards 'what happened?' or 'why did this happen?', Thread of Lies takes the route of how it impacts those around her. While there is still the mystery on the side, it doesn't feel like the focal point. While still being a school drama (partly told through flashback), it is just as good as a character drama. And characters is it's strongest element. From the 4 lead actresses down to the supporting cast, everyone was good. Standout's for me being Kim Hyang-Gi (Cheon-Ji), Chun Woo-Hee (Mi-Ran) & Kim Hie-Ae (Hyeon-Sook). Credit to the writers and director too, I felt the pacing was good, easy to follow but always finding out more and more towards character motivations. And yes, being Korean it has a few quirky, lighthearted scenes. But it's never too crazy and fit's the characters personalities. And I'm fine with that, if not we would all be boarding the train to Depressionville. The score was decent too, it was kept soothing and it never went to overpowering levels.. even during emotional embraces and such. Which is a nice change of pace as there are many films which will try and burst your eardrums. Overall a very solid film from top to bottom. You will not find many schoolroom dramas better, I would recommend to any drama fan out there.

The Thread of Lies is a film based on novel "Elegant Lies" by Kim Ryeo-ryeong. Her novels are known for true to life portrayals of the behaviors of her characters and it shows on this film through the screenplay and the direction by Lee Han. Who also directed "Punch" a film based on a novel by the same author.The motivations and acting are believable which is difficult when dealing with a suicide that happens amongst teenagers. The set up for the suicide is prefaced with a mystery of why Cheon-ji killed herself and the reasons are carefully interlaced in nonlinear tale. Bullying might be the tallest nail to be hammered but the film delicately shows a more depth than just that reason alone.

Korean drama never ceases to amaze me. I got the Korean bug few years back and its kind of chronic now. I liked the premises of this flick and started watching it with moderate expectations. But to my surprise it blew me away right from the very start. The plot is very plausible and doesn't resort to violence/romance/ too many teary scenes to make an impact. The acting is seems to be a strong point of every actor involved. They fall into place easily and seem extremely natural. The plot too isn't very slow and unravels at perfect pace without hiding or disclosing anything too quickly. The behaviors of the kids when they think they are fault, the repentance of a mother and a sister seemed very appropriate and well placed.Overall a must watch film for everyone.

If there was a machine that could produce a film based on 1000's of others centered on family struggles or a family coping with the loss of a loved one but instead you got the Japanese bootleg version it would make this film. You don't need to watch a foreign film to watch this film. There is probably a film like this already out in theaters right now. The writer of this film must be an old out of touch douche bag that hates kids because these schoolgirls are unrealistically horrible cows who seem to have little to none character development that would give reasonable context as to why they would act the way they do. I felt as if I was just watching actors spout over used, clichéd dialogue that I've heard millions of times. The writers are so self conscious about how boring and underwhelming their screenplay is that they decided to add in as much unnecessary quirkiness just for the sake of being different. The soundtrack sounded like rejected piano music from Forrest Gump as it was forcibly used to squeeze out as much drama as possible. The film's over sentimentality aggravated me as this film had the potential to be an intriguing mystery drama yet fell flat on its face. The production aspect of the film was done very competently and the performances were pretty good but overall this film is an extremely disappointing dud.