Our Town (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
Jung Gil Young (Director)
| Ryu Deok Hwan (Actor)
| Oh Man Seok (Actor)
| Lee Seon Gyun (Actor)
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March 10, 2008
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The Fatally Disconnected
The Fatally Disconnected
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In certain everyday circumstances, like traveling to work or moving around shopping plazas, we can become simultaneously and instinctively aware of the happiness around, but also a detached coldness that permeates our society. It doesn't effect us, but can sadden the heart sometimes, especially if you smile and you don't get a warmth of return. We do live in our own personal zones - work, friends, family, country, etc., and have limited integration (even with age), but naturally and subjectively accept and perceive the 'stranger' as alien, the outsider of our personal zones. Each to the other. For most of us, this is the natural aspect of things, and only causes mild effect by over sensitivities. Most likely, too, what we see in negative unspoken communique in others at times, can be our own negative traits projected onto others, that we reject. In a nut shell, we can be to subjective. Still, our worlds, our towns can feel like a sad cold place to live and find love in, sometimes, and a mirror world of indifferences due to jaded cynicisms about human conduct (unusually sexual), can produce a sense of despair and loneliness to our souls. We are all integrative creatures, that all need love in what that really means, but when love and caring is made absent, can steel the soul. Sometimes, too, as in this movie and of the blighted characters here, where one becomes a serial killer and another a murderer, that sense of loneliness, love rejection and loss is seen as an overdrive, and effects the soul too far - contorting that sense of lost love into anger, numbness, rage and drastically towards cold blooded actions. Certainly by this movie's ending, does it describe a bad snapshot of the hell they both fall into, and of its "Nowhere to Hide" type rain finale. Its the same similar scenarios as in the Vengeance films - Lady / Mr and Oldboy, and although the characters there had 'reasons' to fulfill, they still shared the nature of the two lost souls in this film, who have been 'plugged out' of the normality of society, and the love and comfort that all human beings should be having. Well, that sounds a bit of a cold description of what this is all about, but certainly a warm heart is not what you are going to encounter here. This is a dark and tragic murder thriller about a crazed and calculative serial killer, who murders 4 women and then displays their bodies in crucified form on railings, leaving an effigy of them on wooden crucifixes. As like similar films with Christian religious leanings, this also features a pseudo religiosity of themes about twisted aspects of the cross and Christ's split blood (although doesn't really go beyond the basic symbolic really, to any form of deeper psychological sense). This is how the film opens, with a school caretaker attendant going about his business, only to grimly discover such a macabre form on one of the school railings of the inner yard, arms outstretched like a crucified Christ. The film's introductory description also mentions that another three women were also killed in the same manner. This all then moves quickly onto the morose and moody Kyung Joo, a young man with a tragic past of losing his parents in a house fire, and of him then living alone in a flat, with his only objective in writing murder thriller stories on his computer, as a means of trying to have them published and earning some money. Money that Kyung Joo doesn't have, and owes his landlady fees for his lodgings, which she persistently asks him for. This causes constant angst and rage in Kyung Joo, as he bangs his fist frustrated, on the neighboring wall at the loud pumping music vibrating off them. You can also tell by the green tinge filtered into the colour of this film, too (similar to the Japanese "Pulse" and "The Matrix" films), that you can expect by the atmosphere of moodiness , angst and tension, that a raging and jealous vengeance is lurking around the corner. Kyung Joo rarely shows much self humiliation or compassionate feelings either, that could possibly re-new his soul, and the only warm sense of things is when he gets to meet his old school friend, Jae Shin, who is, ironically, a police man working on the serial killer murders. As a murder thriller, this displays quite a lot of gory and violently nasty killings. Kyung Joo is certainly keyed in as the prime suspect as the movie gets under way, even near the beginning, but after 35 minutes or so, you find a double shift of possibilities of what is going in here. There are in fact two killers. Kyung Joo as a psychotic nature that you are aware of right from the beginning, and a nasty encounter of him and a young couple, (even though only the workings of his own mind), reflect the tragic past of his life and the nature of his unbalanced mind. He is also not the only one 'at large'. Another unusual young man, who works for himself at a convenience store, sells Kyung Joo a new photo frame to replace his smashed and broken one, that contained his lost mother and father's photo. Here this young man learns of another murder that has just happened in the town on a news report, featured on the TV in his shop, and feels that Kyung Joo is the killer. He sends him an instant message to his phone, asking why he killed her. After frowning and quizzically looking at his phone message, Kyung Joo then leaves the shop with his photo frame. The young lad then enters his living quarters in the shop, where he discovers that his dog has decided to eat his dinner. As this brings about a following scene later on, with him eating a freshly made lunch opposites his now dead and stuffed colley, you realize that he may also not be quite right in the compassion department. There is then a story thread of these two primary suspects to the murders of the 4 women, and from then on you begin to learn, by constant flashbacks of these two characters as children and teenagers, of what caused them to become sinister killers. Although justification is a word not to be used here. More murders, happen of course, relating to their grim pasts. Although this film deals with blighted and bad life starts with the two main protagonists, its difficult to find a great deal of compassion for them by their deeds. Especially with one of them (its plain obvious in this film that you don't get a big twist at the end, and of who is doing what), where his 'block mind' and absence of any sense of compassion could save his soul, and of the last 'hellish' snapshot in the rain that concludes in sex and death. This certainly does not have a pretty ending whatsoever. Acting to all of this, though, is brilliant as always, and the young actor Deok Hwan Ryu who also featured in the movies "My Son" and "Like a Virgin" is excellent in his role. I don't want to say as what, as there are two possibles with this film. This is a very good movie of its type, that isn't your run of the mill type killer thriller, and could become a firm favorite in future. Certainly not an easy watch (and I'm not always into watching this serial killer stuff......I much prefer ghosts!), and heavily disturbing is indubitably not for the faint hearted. |
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