Showing posts with label Jee-woon Kim. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

DOOMSDAY BOOK (2012) movie review


Doomsday Book (2012) d. Kim, Jee-woon / Yim, Pil-sung (South Korea)

Most anthology films announce themselves through a wraparound story of some sort, however flimsy or contrived, and are the work of how many ever directors there are stories. But this South Korean horror-sci-fi effort colors outside the established lines, with no connective narrative tissue and two of its three segments directed by a single individual (Pil-sung Yim) with Jee-woon Kim holding down the center slot. These minor breaks with convention are in service of three tales about the way the world ends, and the means by which humanity seems bent on handling the job itself.