The 2009 Korean film BREATHLESS
is dizzying, overwhelming, fantastic film making. It’s a powerful tale of the cycle of violence
that never lets up.
The two leads are
superb. Their chemistry is perfect, it
feels very real, and the decision for them not to have a sexual relationship
(she is a school girl, he is a man in his late 20’s) was an excellent one by the filmmaker.
While one may be inclined to
say that this film overstates its point, it never feels over the top despite
the constant violence which until the end is never really gory. The violence here is stomach churning and
unpleasant no more so than the scene where the anti-hero lashes out at total
strangers after an issue involving his father.
How violence works its way
down to the next generation is really the point here.
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