Today is a Friday and it is 4:15 PM and I really don't want to celebrate Bastille Day.
Received in the mail:
-Steam, by Sandra Simonds
-the latest issue of BOTH BOTH, guest edited by Jessica, featuring work by Derek Beaulieu and Justin Katko.
Watched Plastic Tree (Korea, 2001), directed by Eo Il-seon. No screenshots of the movie, as I forgot to press the C key when I was watching it. Basically the descent in hell of a couple of lowlives (their description) living in Pusan, Su, a hairdresser, and his girlfriend, Won-young, a motorcycle delivery girl abused by her customers and her co-workers. The two live with little luxury and Su is impotent. All of this changes when Su's childhood "friend" Byong-ho comes back from military service to live with them for a few days. A "holy shit" moment at the end of the movie that will bring to mind Miike Takashi's Audition, but not as gratuitously gory, yet more shocking and better directed. I didn't think you could do that with a pair of scissors. And yes, Su is certainly more disturbing than Audition's Asami. His psychological disintegration is foreseen in the movie, but I didn't expect such brutality from him.
Received in the mail:
-Steam, by Sandra Simonds
-the latest issue of BOTH BOTH, guest edited by Jessica, featuring work by Derek Beaulieu and Justin Katko.
Watched Plastic Tree (Korea, 2001), directed by Eo Il-seon. No screenshots of the movie, as I forgot to press the C key when I was watching it. Basically the descent in hell of a couple of lowlives (their description) living in Pusan, Su, a hairdresser, and his girlfriend, Won-young, a motorcycle delivery girl abused by her customers and her co-workers. The two live with little luxury and Su is impotent. All of this changes when Su's childhood "friend" Byong-ho comes back from military service to live with them for a few days. A "holy shit" moment at the end of the movie that will bring to mind Miike Takashi's Audition, but not as gratuitously gory, yet more shocking and better directed. I didn't think you could do that with a pair of scissors. And yes, Su is certainly more disturbing than Audition's Asami. His psychological disintegration is foreseen in the movie, but I didn't expect such brutality from him.
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