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Sangjoon (Yeon Je-wook) is one of the most notorious serialkillers of
South Korea, having killed between 18 (according to authorities) and 25
(his own estimate) people, and he's not 30 yet. And the police can't get a
hold of him, but he has managed to contact Soyeon (Kim Kkobbi), his
childhood friend turned reporter and has promised her an exclusive
interview at a secret location if only she brings a Japanese cameraman -
Tashiro (Koji Shiraishi) - who films the whole thing in one uninterrupted
take. When they're with him in an abandoned building, Soyeon and Tashiro
get a first-hand picture how far gone Sangjoon is, ever since he and
Soyeon have lost a childhood friend in their pre-teens, he has turned to
God and God has answered him and told him he has to kill 27 people by a
certain date and his friend will be restored to life. Of course, Soyeon
and Tashiro think he wants to sacrifice them as the last two to reach 27
but he swears to leave them alive if only they do his bidding - even if he
injures and ties up Soyeon when she acts up. However, his actual victims
are soon here, a Japanese couple, Tsukasa (Tsukasa Aoi) and Ryota (Ryotaro
Yonemura), who he has set up a date with at the building and who he
believes symbolize true love. They're overcome soon, too, and all tied up
and ready to be killed ... and then all falls apart, as the two are
actually sick perverts, and when Sangjoon threatens to rape Tsukasa, Ryota
only eggs him on, and she enjoys the experience which was always a secret
fantasy of hers, and manages to overcome Sangjoon after the act. And
things start to really getting out of hands for everybody from there on
... Now there's one weird little movie that really manages to
defy all (genre-)expectations. Basically it starts out as a rather
conventional found footage psycho thriller not unlike many other found
footage movies you might have seen, but once the path of these movie seems
to be laid out, it starts to twist and turn wildly into all directions
(including fantasy!), putting the narrative completely on its head more
than once, and actually exhibiting an infective joy of pure storytelling -
and the found footage approach that's never abandoned throughout and
really tells the story in just one take only gives the whole thing an
immediacy, something ironically only rarely achieved by this style of
filmmaking. In all, it's a wild ride for sure, but if your minds a
little warped (like mine), you'll probably quite enjoy it.
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