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The Isle
Why this pick
Kim Ki-duk’s sparse, hostile rural world similarly turns isolation, damaged longing and sudden brutality into a bleakly poetic emotional experience.
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MOVIE2001 1h 57m KOR
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Bad Guy
Why this pick
Its abrasive, almost wordless power struggle and marginalized urban characters echo Address Unknown’s willingness to make emotional damage feel raw rather than comforting.
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Oasis
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
It is set in the South Korean countryside around a U.S. military base, and particularly involves the villages that are affected by its presence. This includes an unstable, near psychotic American soldier (Mitch Malem) who survives on a diet of LSD and rage, Eun-ok, a girl with one defective eye, Jihum a lonesome boy and Chang-guk, who lives in an old abandoned U.S. Air Force bus with his mother. She has taught Chang-guk English in an attempt to prepare him for their new life in the United States, reunited with his father who she mails regularly, although the letters are always returned "address unknown".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Yang Dong-geun
Chang-guk
Cho Jae-hyun
Dog Eyes