In Korean. 148 minute running time which means it was ONE HOUR too long … I don’t know what it was about, it’s forcefully mystifying, I have no idea what was really gong on (SPOILERS), but it’s about a poor countryside kid and a rich city kid and a girl they both (?) fall in love with (love triangle thing, you know, jealousy), then she disappears. The countryside kid wants to be a writer but is unemployed and completely inarticulate and constantly looks blank and dumb (loves Faulkner though), and the rich city kid is smarmy and easy to hate and may be a serial killer, but then again maybe not, you’re never really sure, but country kid (SPOILERS) ends up murdering him anyway. The end. Kind of interesting from a class hatred angle, but not really. This was a John Farr reco. It should be one star given it’s extreme length, but it I’m going to give it two stars (not terrible but not recommended either).

Peter Bradshaw is right about this: “He is great at showing the numbness and stunned, cowed acceptingness of Jongsoo’s existence.”