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Ddongpari

Breathless

South Korea 2009
produced by
Yang Ki-Joon for Mole Film
directed by Yang Ik-Joon
starring Yang Ik-Joon, Kim Kot-bi, Jeong Man-shik, Lee Hwan
written by Yang Ik-Joon, music by The Invisible Fish

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Sang Hoon (Yang Ik-joon) is a money collector with underworld ties as violent as can be, and he doesn't only beat up those who owe his organisation money but also his colleagues and at times even his kind-hearted boss (Jeong Man-shik).

Why is he like that?

Probably because he saw his dad kill his mom. Still, he does take care of his dad (who has only recently been released from prison), even though he hates him, and of his sister and her son, though he would rather die than to show gentle feelings towards them.

One day on the street he meets schoolgirl, Yeon-hee (Kim Kot-bi), and he bullies her mainly out of habit - but she's not in the least bit impressed, since she has to take too much abuse at her own home from her confused father and her no-good brother to not be able to counter everything Sang Hoon says or does. Yeong-hee's attitude is like nothing Sang Hoon has ever encountered, and he becomes fascinated by her and starts asking her out, and their relationship does indeed soften him up enough to see that he is caught up in a vicious circle of violence that only creates more violence, and when his father tries to commit suicide on top of that and he notices he loves his old man despite everything, he decides to quit his money collector-job. Unfortunately though, on his last day a rookie who goes on collecting rounds with him - and who just happens to be Yeong-hee's brother without him knowing it - can't take the abuse hurled at him by Sang Hoon any longer, and he beats up and kills him ...

 

A film that falls into two halves: The beginning, with the totally unsocial Sang Hoon and the schoolgirl who knows how to handle him, is just great in its rawness, its spontaneous outbursts of violence, and its ambivalent humour. This could have led to something great, but unfortunately, somewhere about half way through, writer Yang Ik-joon for whatever reason decides he wants to deliver a message as well, and both the message - violence only creates more violence - as well as its execution are too blunt to really result in anything but a kitschfest,and not even director Yang Ik-joon's rather subtle mise-en-scene can save the affair from utter pointlessness. Rather a pity, actually, as I really loved the beginning.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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