#padak eel

[glass-conger]

Fish movie go brrrrr

[marinerainbow]

Alright.

I h a v e to know what Padak is about XD

Oh... Oh you sweet summer child, you don't know?

Well I'm glad I can tell you instead of you like, stumbling on this movie and having all of it jump out at you XD

Ok ok, I genuinely love this film and I'll admit, I really want to take a moment to geek out about it. But that would involve in me getting into spoiler territory. So, in case you decide to look for this film yourself, I'll just give you the generalized story here.

The movie is about a lone mackerel, later in the film named Padak for trying to 'padak padak her way to her death' (she jumped out of the tank and was flip flopping on the ground. I'm guessing Padak is Korean for Flip-Flop? It's a good thing this film wasn't Australian, or else she'd be named Thong. I'm sorry) is fished out of the sea and dropped into a tank at a local restaurant, and has to escape back to home, all while trying to convince her new tank-mates to escape with her. Simple plot, right? Well... Here's a quote from the YouTube review that introduced me to Padak that pretty much sums up the whole movie perfectly.

"Imagine if you took the fish tank setting from Finding Nemo and mixed it with the graphic violence from Watership Down, drizzled it in the depressing tone of Plague Dogs, and gave it a garnish of that sushi scene from The Isle of Dogs. That's basically this film on a plate."

Steve Reveiws, Padak

Now, why is the sushi scene prevalent? Because this film takes place in a Korean restaurant where their food is as fresh as possible. Meaning that the fish are prepared and even eaten while still alive. And this film pulls zero punches in showing the horrors of this kind of delicacy (no, I'm serious. A fish is literally cut up and dissected on screen. This movie takes off the kid gloves and throws them in the God damn incinerator). So yeah, there are a lot of images in this film that will be upsetting to veiwers. But this film isn't gorey just for the sake of gore. It tells a genuinely very sad story and will wring out emotions from your heart, and can also be breathtaking with its musical and 2D animated segments.

I'd recommend checking out this reveiw before trying to find the film, though. Even if watching a reveiw is not at all like watching the movie, this guy does censor some of the more extreme gore (like the scene I mentioned above). He doesn't censor all of it, but I think this video is still the best introduction to this movie.

However, if you want to check out the movie, I could only find it on this website https://online.potlockermovies.com/full-movie/padak/ it's free, and it does have English subtitles (the movie doesn't have an English dub), but there are a lot if pop up adds and it's probably going to get frustrating clicking off of them, but this site was still the best I could find to watch Padak.

It's interesting to note that this film does not go in the direction you might expect it to. If it weren't for the fact that I had watched the video above before the movie itself, I would have been just as shocked with how it ended and what happened to our characters as Steve was. But at the same time, the film does establish right away that it's going for more... For lack of a better term, realistic approach. So although the film goes in an unexpected direction, it's also hard to say that it cheated you out of your time to view it.

Again, to try to keep this as spoiler free as possible, I'm only going to sum up the third act in lyrics from the last song of the movie that speaks mountains once you realize it.

Destiny tricks us like fools.

He also gives off a kind of viscious cunning vibe in the movie? Like he's the second in command character that's a bit of a bastard. I think you might like him if you watch this movie. And the old Flatfish who is 'The Master' of the tank.

Oh yeah also, there's this eel (who I think is named Anago? Or Jooldom? His name is never mentioned in the film, however the video above calls him Jooldom, and I've seen people on this site argue his name is meant to be Anago. There isn't much information for this movie online, unfortunately.) who everyone wants to become the next tumblr sexyman. All because of his voice. To be fair, it is a nice voice.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

yall should watch padak. great animation. extremely disturbing, but interesting philosophical themes. compelling narrative. the talking eel is a tumblr sexyman. go watch padak

[chainsxwsmile]

Whatta bastard. I love him.

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

Nothing spells self-indulgence like day-dreaming impossible scenarios with your favorite character as a roommate.

[sepialunaris]

Me at the end of Padak: Oh no!!! Anago, Snapper, Sea Bass and Bream you;re douchebags but you dont deserve this RIP

Anago, Snapper, Sea Bass and Bream in the deleted scenes: *starts a literal cult*

[style-and-kyman]

Think About It

Everyone wanna freak this eel and tbh I don't blame them

[kingkreeps]

Frankly, I couldn’t help myself

[cat-soap-opera]

has anyone made a map using a song from padak (2012)

[pythox]

Padak - Swimming To Sea (2012, dir. Lee Dae-Hee)

[plaguedogs123]

So recently I watch this very obscure animated Korean movie from 2012 called Padak. I found out about it thanks to Steve Reviews on YouTube :D when I first saw the cover I thought it was going to be one of those awful Finding Nemo ripoffs... boy was I wrong LOL it’s definitely not kid friendly, it’s dark, weird, depressing, violent, and feels realistic and I Love it lol  

[wayward-delver]

Full-rendered Deleted scenes from Padak: Swimming to Sea. 

(Can someone please translate)

[yaspup9000]

Umm here I drew this eel from padak  

Please tell me what you folks think 

[chainsxwsmile]

I like that you're broken—

Broken like me.

Maybe that makes me a fool.

// I love drawing up impossible but comforting scenarios featuring my comfort characters, including Anago

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

Me: haha yeah Anago is such a little bastard eel. An apathetic and fatalistic dumpster boy.

Also me: *in tears as I watch Whitespotted conger eels on YouTube*