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Beauty Water

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Beauty Water means that you can freely change your face as you would with makeup without having to undergo plastic surgery. Due to her appearance, Yeji has suffered terribly. One day, she faces an incredible temptation and she changes her face and body, literally from head to toe, to become popular. She just wants to keep her new appearance and life, no matter what it takes or what sacrifice must be made. This film is a feature animation based on Beauty Water an episode of Oh Seongdae's webtoon Tales of the Unusual. While keeping the original's eccentric imagination and atmosphere, the film adds a new story with high-quality drawings and movements. Voice actors were also added, doubling the bizarreness and entertainment. This work satirizes the absurdity of modern society's obsession with appearance through the protagonist, who is swept by the beauty standards of the world that ends up driving her to catastrophe.

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Panos Kotzathanasis HanCinema The concept of beauty and how has come to dominate the modern world and particularly the contemporary Korean society is a very serious issue, and "Beauty Water" presents one of the most realistic depictions of its consequences Oct 25, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jamie M Satire on the beauty standard's of Korea but much more extreme! Not super gorey, but enough for me to cringe. I love how this was animated so they could push beyond the boundaries of what people would do for beauty. Had me on the edge a few times; wondering how far they would go. The normal people actually looked like normal (Korean) people, and the _beautiful_ people looked like kpop stars. Hilarious. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/18/23 Full Review minty w if you guys love psycho-horror, beauty water is one i would recommend. despite its odd animation style, switching from 2d to cgi at times, the story is, in my opinion, pretty good. it touches on the topics about pretty privilege, greed and consumerism pretty well, and also how being pretty can lead to both positive and negative affects. not sure what else to say, but it is a good movie. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Beauty Water means that you can freely change your face as you would with makeup without having to undergo plastic surgery. Due to her appearance, Yeji has suffered terribly. One day, she faces an incredible temptation and she changes her face and body, literally from head to toe, to become popular. She just wants to keep her new appearance and life, no matter what it takes or what sacrifice must be made. This film is a feature animation based on Beauty Water an episode of Oh Seongdae's webtoon Tales of the Unusual. While keeping the original's eccentric imagination and atmosphere, the film adds a new story with high-quality drawings and movements. Voice actors were also added, doubling the bizarreness and entertainment. This work satirizes the absurdity of modern society's obsession with appearance through the protagonist, who is swept by the beauty standards of the world that ends up driving her to catastrophe.
Director
Cho Kyung-hun, Kyung-hun Cho
Screenwriter
Oh Sung-dae, Lee Han-bin, Oh Sung-dae
Production Co
SS Animent, Studio ANIMAL Co. Ltd.
Genre
Horror, Animation, Foreign
Original Language
Korean
Runtime
1h 25m