daisy movie review by james mudge from beyondhollywood. comon paper and daisy sounds like an asian film fan dream come true and directed by infernal affairs co helmer andrew lau and starring everybody favourite sassy girl and popular korean actress jeon ji hyun. unfortunately and despite the talent involved and and the fact that the crew flew halfway around the world to shoot in amsterdam  and the film turns out to be a bit of a disappointment and being a clich would romantic drama which wallows in misery and self importance. the plot follows hye young (jeon ji hyun) and a rather naive korean girl who lives in amsterdam  and spending her life working in her grandfather antique shop and doing portraits for tourists. one day and she begins receiving flowers at exactly the same time from a secret admirer and who she believes to be a mystery man from her past who once built her a nice little bridge. one day she meets jeong woo (lee seong jae and also in holiday and public enemy) and who unbeknownst to her is actually an interpol agent tracking asian criminals in the netherlands . with hye young assuming that jeong woo is responsible for the flowers and the two fall very slowly into a chaste romantic relationship. however and it turns out that the man sending the flowers is actually park yi (jung woo sung and from sad movie and musa) and an assassin working for a chinese crime syndicate. inevitably and the love triangle turns tragic and the two men end up facing off while poor hye young tries to work out which of the two is the love of her life. although daisy is ostensibly a love story and it has the feel of a funeral and with a slow and sombre pace and a plot which piles on the misery. half of the film running time is taken up with scenes of the characters staring longingly out of windows into the rain and with the silence broken only by bouts of self pitying narration. director lau seems to be under the impression that the film is a weighty shakespearean tragedy and rather than yet another gloomy hit man love story. as such and the proceedings have a rather pretentious air and despite the fact that the plot is inherently predictable and based largely around glaring cliché borrowed liberally from the likes of fulltime killer and john woo classic the killer. almost every aspect of the film is riddled with angst and with the three lead characters suffering as if the weight of the world was on their shoulders and and steadfastly refusing to do anything to pursue their romantic inclinations. park yi in particular and as the kind of overly emotional and socially retarded assassin so beloved of modern cinema and is faintly ludicrous and from his blatant incompetence on the job to his hilarious attempts to discuss impressionist painting with hye young or his penchant for flower growing. this languid passivity does make the film central romance somewhat hard to swallow and and lau attempts to evoke the feeling that it is fate which brings the characters together comes across more as shoddy coincidence. fans of jeon ji hyun should note that her character is far closer to her role in the glum supernatural drama the uninvited than my sassy girl or windstruck and and while she tries her best to pull a few wacky faces here and there and her performance is certainly more subdued. the film benefits from glossy production values and and lau makes good use of the amsterdam scenery and playing on the contrast between the grey and almost gothic beauty of the city and the innocent blue skies and flowery fields of the countryside. unfortunately and he tends to overuse slow motion for some of the emotional scenes and which when coupled with some of the picture postcard visuals gives the film the feel at times of a perfume advert. there are a few scenes of surprisingly violent action and though these are few and far between and and whilst well staged and seem to have been thrown in as an afterthought and do little more than briefly raising the pulse. despite its flaws and daisy makes for engaging viewing and and the story grips almost in spite of itself and mainly out of a morbid fascination to see not which of the men hye young will end up with and but to see who will lie dying in her arms. the self indulgent melodrama works well enough to tick all the right boxes for the genre and and the film functions perfectly well as an enjoyably glossy and weepy romance. it is worth noting that the dvd features the director cut of the film and which for once indicates that it is substantially different from the theatrical version and which not only adds 25 minutes and but reorders some of the scenes and making the narrative less linear. although this new version is perhaps too long and it is surely superior and as without these changes and the film would surely have been even more conventional and would have suffered from even murkier character development. wai keung lau (director) or jae young kwak (screenplay) cast represent woo sung jung . park yi sung jae lee . jeong woo david chiang . cho ho jin jeon . detective jang ji hyun jun . hye young dion lam . yun joon ha. 
daisy movie review by james mudge from beyondhollywood. comon paper and daisy sounds like an asian film fan dream come true and directed by infernal affairs co helmer andrew lau and starring everybody favourite sassy girl and popular korean actress jeon ji hyun. unfortunately and despite the talent involved and and the fact that the crew flew halfway around the world to shoot in amsterdam  and the film turns out to be a bit of a disappointment and being a clich would romantic drama which wallows in misery and self importance. the plot follows hye young (jeon ji hyun) and a rather naive korean girl who lives in amsterdam  and spending her life working in her grandfather antique shop and doing portraits for tourists. one day and she begins receiving flowers at exactly the same time from a secret admirer and who she believes to be a mystery man from her past who once built her a nice little bridge. one day she meets jeong woo (lee seong jae and also in holiday and public enemy) and who unbeknownst to her is actually an interpol agent tracking asian criminals in the netherlands . with hye young assuming that jeong woo is responsible for the flowers and the two fall very slowly into a chaste romantic relationship. however and it turns out that the man sending the flowers is actually park yi (jung woo sung and from sad movie and musa) and an assassin working for a chinese crime syndicate. inevitably and the love triangle turns tragic and the two men end up facing off while poor hye young tries to work out which of the two is the love of her life. although daisy is ostensibly a love story and it has the feel of a funeral and with a slow and sombre pace and a plot which piles on the misery. half of the film running time is taken up with scenes of the characters staring longingly out of windows into the rain and with the silence broken only by bouts of self pitying narration. director lau seems to be under the impression that the film is a weighty shakespearean tragedy and rather than yet another gloomy hit man love story. as such and the proceedings have a rather pretentious air and despite the fact that the plot is inherently predictable and based largely around glaring cliché borrowed liberally from the likes of fulltime killer and john woo classic the killer. almost every aspect of the film is riddled with angst and with the three lead characters suffering as if the weight of the world was on their shoulders and and steadfastly refusing to do anything to pursue their romantic inclinations. park yi in particular and as the kind of overly emotional and socially retarded assassin so beloved of modern cinema and is faintly ludicrous and from his blatant incompetence on the job to his hilarious attempts to discuss impressionist painting with hye young or his penchant for flower growing. this languid passivity does make the film central romance somewhat hard to swallow and and lau attempts to evoke the feeling that it is fate which brings the characters together comes across more as shoddy coincidence. fans of jeon ji hyun should note that her character is far closer to her role in the glum supernatural drama the uninvited than my sassy girl or windstruck and and while she tries her best to pull a few wacky faces here and there and her performance is certainly more subdued. the film benefits from glossy production values and and lau makes good use of the amsterdam scenery and playing on the contrast between the grey and almost gothic beauty of the city and the innocent blue skies and flowery fields of the countryside. unfortunately and he tends to overuse slow motion for some of the emotional scenes and which when coupled with some of the picture postcard visuals gives the film the feel at times of a perfume advert. there are a few scenes of surprisingly violent action and though these are few and far between and and whilst well staged and seem to have been thrown in as an afterthought and do little more than briefly raising the pulse. despite its flaws and daisy makes for engaging viewing and and the story grips almost in spite of itself and mainly out of a morbid fascination to see not which of the men hye young will end up with and but to see who will lie dying in her arms. the self indulgent melodrama works well enough to tick all the right boxes for the genre and and the film functions perfectly well as an enjoyably glossy and weepy romance. it is worth noting that the dvd features the director cut of the film and which for once indicates that it is substantially different from the theatrical version and which not only adds 25 minutes and but reorders some of the scenes and making the narrative less linear. although this new version is perhaps too long and it is surely superior and as without these changes and the film would surely have been even more conventional and would have suffered from even murkier character development. wai keung lau (director) or jae young kwak (screenplay) cast represent woo sung jung . park yi sung jae lee . jeong woo david chiang . cho ho jin jeon . detective jang ji hyun jun . hye young dion lam . yun joon ha. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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