Man on High Heels is a good muscular and engaged dramatic thriller. Korean ingredients are there: it rains all the time, it fights with brutality and aestheticism, it cries, it laughs, it screams ... A little long and suffering from some weaknesses in the scenario, Man on High Heels is enough audacious and a damn good fist against man virility and machismo !
Man on High Heels
2014 [KOREAN]
Action / Drama
Plot summary
Ji-wook is a virile detective with a reputation, but deep down in his heart, he always considered himself as a woman and finally decides to get a transsexual operation. However, his plan falls apart as vicious gang members start their revenge on him.
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Movie Reviews
Good Korean action/thriller and a damn good fist against man virility and machismo
Violent and strange the elements don't mix well
A cop who kills well bad guys with no guns. Change to his cross dressing. Wants to get a sec change. When the bad guys go after the people
he cares about he comes back as bad cop. The things seem awkwardly juxtaposed.
Skip this one. Just shock tactics.
Absolutely loved it.
This movie makes my gay little heart very very happy. This one is especially a very good movie. I loved it because its captures very well the feeling and heartache of someone who was born in the wrong body.
I actually think its very rare for to find a movie this good created from an Asian entertainment industry. Movies like this doesn't appealed much to mainstream audience. But its means the world to those that lives that life, a life that is not so easily accepted by society. I love every inch of the movie.
The movie captured the pain of what it meant to be different, and to hide it, and live a double life. To be put on a mask to the world, and to hide your real self behind close doors. To suffer silently and to struggled with one identity. It depicted these emotions very well. It showed how LGBT individual are bullied, self harmed, and hold self hatred. Its depicts a man torned between his life as a man, and his desired to be true to himself, and become a women.
One last thing, my favorite part of this movie is how it summed up a very special theme: We can't change. This things are intrinsic to our very heart and soul. Our sexuality and our identity is every part that make us complete.