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So much average

As Good As It Gets

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Diary Of June tells the story of Detectives Chu Ja Young and Kim Dong Wook, who must solve a puzzling murder case involving a string of deaths at a local high school. Their investigation eventually leads them directly to a middle school student who has long suffered abuse at the hands of school bullies. In fact, each murder occurs just as it is described in the student's diary. On that evidence alone, one might think the detectives have an open and shut case. However, there's one problem. The student is already dead!The movie was above average. Not great but no ordinary as well. Typical Korean psychological thriller.

If you are not that familiar with Korean movies/cinema, you might be in for quite a surprise. But for me, it didn't really work. The English title does play a role in the movie, which is apparent almost from the get-go. But of course, that's not all there is to this movie and quite a few things happen.A pretty decent movie, that I can only recommend, if you have an affection for that sort of movies. Still there are better (Korean) movies out there to watch. So it's up to you, if you want to take the time and watch this over other movies. Just read another comment on here and then decide, before you waste your time.

This movie is being advertised as a mystery or thriller! That is not entirely true! While there is a mystery that has to be solved it is more a drama dealing with social issues! I will not tell what the topic is because that will spoil the plot quite a bit! I can tell however that the topic is a problem that every country on the world has to deal with! The cast is great! Yunjin Kim from "Lost" again was able to touch me! I actually could feel her emotions! "Diary of June" ("Bystanders) can be boring at times because of the slow pace! The first 75 minutes there is almost no tension! It even got to a point that I thought that this movie was going nowhere and that I could predict the outcome! But then the twist comes and shows what the whole movie actually was about! And I have to admit it really is a powerful message! A movie that has to be seen only if it was to make people aware of the problem discussed in the movie!

"Middle school student Inwoo is stabbed to death on the street. When his classmate Kangtae commits suicide, a capsule containing part of a diary is found in his stomach saying "June 13th, I killed Inwoo on the street". In Inwoos body another note is found: "June 15th, I killed Kangtae, disguising it as a suicide." Tough detective Chu and her partner Kim suspect that the killer belongs to the school but they soon discover that the owner of a mysterious diary has already died in a car accident long ago...An original attempt to rewrite some od the clichés of police procedurals and serial-killer pics... What makes the pic so different is its soft-pedalling of the usual cinematic mechanisms of serial-killer movies, from action sequences to grisly detail." (Variety) Great performance by Kim Yoon-Jin (Lost) and Shin Eun-Kyung!