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Crazy Koreans. I can say that because I'm both crazy and Korean, but hearing whispers throughout the theater at the AFI Fest from purported film buffs was a little disconcerting, and funny.
At any rate, never has the phrase "this movie isn't for everyone" been more accurate.
Allow me to break down the plot. But the movie is really so much more than the story.
Man cheats on wife. Wife attempts to cut off husband's man parts while he's sleeping. Man catches wife, so wife goes to teenage son's bedroom and cuts his off instead.
Father takes son to hospital. Unfortunately, they can't re-attach the thing, because mom ate it. Mom goes wondering the streets. She cray!
Father, in act of solidarity, cuts off his. Actually, he has it surgically removed. But he's also planning on giving it to his son for a transplant, assuming they can find a capable doctor.
After a gang a baddies save the boy from some jerky high school classmates who are trying to see the boy's nub, the boy gets roped into a gang bang. Boy pretends to rape the shop girl, the same woman his dad had an affair with, who incidentally, is played by the same woman playing the mother. The gang gets caught and thrown into jail.
Meanwhile, the father tries to figure out ways he (and his son) can get sexual pleasure without the goods. Pain is the way. The boy comes of age with the shop girl, but not in the way you think.
When the head baddie gets out of jail, the shop girl seduces him. She cuts off his phallus, and the boy helps her. A chase ensues. The thing drops and is run over by a car. Eventually, the castrated baddie comes back for some more painful loving.
Father finds a doctor who can do the transplant. But boy still can't get it up.
Mother comes back, and for the first time, the boy has pitched a tent. Mom sees this and wants to lend a helping hand. That's the least she can do, considering. Father's irate, maybe even jealous.
Boy gives the shop girl another try, but it's still not working.
So that's most of it. I'm reserving the denouement for your sadistic viewing pleasure.
Did I mention not one word is uttered during this entire time?
It's a powerful movie, and strangely beautiful, terrifying, and so sad. If you can handle the basics, you will be able to appreciate this as a visceral experience with tremendous heart and inexorable pain.
score 9/10
MonicaK1971 12 November 2013
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