Address Unknown (수취인불명) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk. It was the opening movie of the 2001 Venice Film Festival.[1]
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Address unknown is a relentlessly bleak film (apart from the odd moment of humor). Based on real life stories from the Director's life, and those known to him, it is set in the Korean countryside around a US army base, and particularly involves misfits that are affected by its presence. This includes an unstable, near psycotic American Soldier who survives on a diet of LSD and rage, before becoming ensnared with a one eyed Korean girl called Eun-Ok.
Another story involves half caste Chang-Guk, who lives in an old US army bus with his mother. She has taught Chang-Guk english in an attempt to prepare him for their new life in America, reunited with his father who she mails regularly, although the letters are always returned "address unknown".
These are only some of the tragic stories told in this place, a seeming bath of misery, where life seems to revolve around beating dogs, drinking, sexual misadventure and violence (in that order).
The movie opens by onimously telling us that no animals were harmed in the making of the movie. The viewer however, may feel as if they are being hit with a blunt instrument.
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