| Yang Dong-Kun, Kim Young-Min, Ban
Min-Yung, Cho Jae Hyum, Pang Eun-Jin , Myung Kye-Nam.
Following up on his hallucinatory meditation
on sex, death, and fish hooks in The Isle, Korean filmmaker Kim
Ki-duk spins this brutal exploration on the lingering anger and
exploitation of America's occupation of South Korea. Even though
all her letters are returned stamped "Address Unknown,"
a middle-aged woman nevertheless compulsively writes letter after
letter to the American soldier with whom she bore an African-American/Korean
child. Her son, named Chang-guk, is the object of societal scorn
and rejection and can only get a job as a dog butcher, a job he
executes with a certain amount of grim pleasure. He finds himself
attracted to a high school girl with a degenerative eye condition
who is trapped in an abusive relationship with an American G.I.
His love for the girl and his free-floating rage against society
fuels a violent outburst that changes everyone's lives. This film
was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
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