Short Cuts: Joint Security Area (2000)
First feature-film from Korean director Park Chan-wook's (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy). Set on the border between South and North Korea, J.S.A. is a wonderful, smart, emotional, action-packed film that never betrays the intimacy of story and the depth of character at the expense of its slickness and assured flashiness. It also proves that Park was the real deal from the get-go. Can't wait to see Sympathy for Lady Vengeance which was just released in Asia at the end of July.
Nightmare Town is the last stop before the long dark takes over, the city where logic is usurped by the infernal that lurks within us all. The inhabitants who walk these lonely streets hold no pretense of good taste or propriety. Nor do the inhabitants wander here out of fashion's sake. They have no choice but to dwell here.
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