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Save The Green Planet
on DVD (2003)
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Brief synopsis of Save The Green Planet
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.
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Radio Times
Although it adopts a magpie approach to its visuals and plumps for a plot twist that undoes much of its early good work, Jang Jun-hwan's ambitious debut is still a crafty combination of offbeat comedy, B-movie sci-fi and macabre thriller. Shin Ha-gyun (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance) excels as the movie-mad crank whose conviction that Earth is about to be invaded by aliens from Andromeda prompts him and his trapeze-artist girlfriend to kidnap industrial tycoon Baek Yun-shik. But, as eccentric cop Lee Jae-yong begins to investigate the abduction, an alternative motive for Shin's actions emerges and the tone becomes increasingly sombre — right up to the disappointingly extravagant denouement.
Time Out
Jang's debut feature is a dark comedy which takes pain and madness seriously and asks the viewer to empathise with a...
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A frantically stylish but ultimately bonkers film.
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