This is a claustrophobic drama crosscutting between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, and the other a kept boy of a married businessman stiffing in a swanky apartment. Tough seemingly different, these two are linked by their common loneliness and desperation.
The director uses three fixed shots for three scenes, which include things like a balcony, the sky, and a deck chair with cats hovering around. With gradually changing natural elements in the backdrop such as wind blowing, rainfall, or even the horrific sounds in the last scene, the film contrasts the inner peace of the observer.
A transsexual midway through the transformation to become a woman has been contemplating how the "New Seoul" is quickly rising from the city's detritus while strolling by the river, where s/he encounters a talking dog. They strike up a conversation, and it guides him through a strange journey.
Unrequited love. It is sex without sex, that a body becomes someone else’s than mine, and the subject of illusion becomes its object. The state is somewhat similar to the boundary between screened images from a DV tape and a 16mm print.
The film captures a disturbing hotel room tryst between a domineering married man and a teenage boy, a claustrophobic bedroom scene interrupted by an animated fantasia, and an enigmatic confessional coda by the director, making the work a fascinating, disconcerting examination of psychosexual alienation and self-exposure.
This autobiographical short depicts the life experience of a gay boy who confronts his childhood past. For him, playing with dolls is not merely as simple as a playtime choice. The director captures lots of daily objects in real life, portraying them in a realistic manner but also creating an intense, unique effect.
