This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-.. Read more
| Starring | Shin Ha-Kyun, Paek Yun-Sik, Hwang Jeong-Min |
|---|---|
| Director | Jang Jun-Hwan |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is actually an alien from the planet Andromeda. Lee's frumpy acrobat girlfriend (Hwang Jung-Min) helps him abduct the 'alien' and torture him into confessing. Meanwhile, a hangdog detective is following a trail leading to Lee's hideout high in the mountains. Let the timid be warned: this is not the antipollution comedy that the title might indicate. Man's inhumanity to man is certainly depicted--as in events like Korea's 1980 Kwangju riots--but there's more going on here than any one summation could describe: bees attack, a pet dog named Earth dines on human remains, alternate theories of evolution are posited (ie Noah's Ark was a deep submarine carrying DNA samples); an entire lifetime of films, political turmoil, anime and manga are boiled down and distilled into one profound, multi-textual allegory. Adventurous viewers will be in for one hell of a ride, as this film dares go where few have gone before, yet it does so with heart and intellect to match its wicked humor and headlong momentum.
| Starring | Shin Ha-Kyun, Paek Yun-Sik, Hwang Jeong-Min |
|---|---|
| Director | Jang Jun-Hwan |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2003 To Rent: DVD: 21 Mar 2005 |
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Jang's debut feature is a dark comedy which takes pain and madness seriously and asks the viewer to empathise with a... read more on Time Out
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Wow!
What a film! This is a funny, crazy, harrowing and intense film from Korea about the local nut who is convinced that his rich ex-boss is an alien planning to ... read more »
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Kinda funny, kinda sad and very weird...
I loved this. A bit weird at the beginning but once you tie all the threads together it's a goody. Kinda funny, kinda sad and very weird...
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Beware the Bees
Save the Green Planet is the directorial debut of Jang Jun-hwan and stuns with its wildness and audacity of imagination. The film is a strange mix of assured ... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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barking
Sadistic and psychotic violence with a quirky veneer. The packaging was slick, but who would be impressed by that? The nut-case of a main character really was a... read more »
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