2013 Directed by Park Chan-wook
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
慾謀, 私房吓, 欲谋, 스토커, Tajemství rodiny Stokerů, イノセント・ガーデン
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imagine being the director that thinks of the idea for nicole kidman’s hair to transition into a field of grass. imagine pulling it off too. can’t tell park chan-wook nothing
Does for belts, sand castles, staircases, pianos, pencils, pencil sharpeners, ice cream, freezers, phone booths, shoes, duck hunts, dinner, garden shears, shovels, metronomes, and showers what Psycho did for showers.
seems like park chan-wook is definitely holding back with this one. but that said it’s still spicier than most of what’s out there. has to be one of the best edited films i’ve ever seen. would have gone feral over this movie in high school. everyone in this movie is in desperate need of some eye drops!
things Stoker invented:
- the word "hello"
- freezers
- blood splatter
- slow fades
- piano duets
- garden shears
- visual ingenuity
- saddle shoes
(this film only gets better and better when you rewatch it)
"I've often wondered why it is we have children..."
the rare film that's grossly UNDERappreciated at Sundance. Nature vs. nurture as a woozy gothic battle royale. Ecstatically good. also features one of the most clever instances of single-shot misdirection i can remember (it involves curtains).
Park Chan-wook is the filmmaker that Lee Daniels so desperately wants to be.
“just as the skirt needs the wind to billow... i'm not formed by things that are of myself alone”
my favorite coming of age film and a most important entry into the cinematic goth girl hall of fame
At 98 minutes, this is my dream length of movie. I have said it all my life.
After leaving this screening, and using the facilities, I could quite easily have jumped straight back in to watch the whole movie again. That doesn't happen to me often.
Stoker is phenomenal.
It's as dreamy as it is taught. As beautiful as it is horrific. It's The Tree of Life with A screenplay. An outstanding screenplay at that. It has been said that the director Park Chan-Wook has made a Hitchcock movie. You can't make a Hitchcock movie without a Hitchcock screenplay, and Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida have made one. It's my favourite scenplay in recent memory. It keeps enough under wraps…
India, actual daughter of Amy from Gone Girl, and an icon for people everywhere.
Tonight, India joins the hunt.
Gothic, surreal, unsettling, and of course, tremendously gorgeous. Not surprising since I expect nothing less from the master Park Chan Wook. A frame is always connected to the next, transition between scenes are so smooth they're almost invisible. Every shot seems to have a life of its own. Instead of being a medium to carry the plot, they gracefully became the story itself. Mia Wasikowska gave her best and so does everyone else. Without a single doubt, I say Stoker is as good as an English debut gets.
