The Korean From Seoul
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Review by danport

The Korean From Seoul 2021

★★★★

I've watched this movie three times and I feel like I don't have any better an understanding of it than I did after one.

This meanders through a conventional workplace narrative but has sporadic lightning strikes of surreal postmodern almost "vapor wave" levels of computer-based imagery. It is very possible that Steven Whatmough's The Korean From Seoul is a surrealistic modern deconstruction the likes of which we may have never seen before. And I mean that.

I'm torn on whether this is really a "good" movie but I find it so goddamned interesting that I can't give it fewer than four stars. I would recommend that everyone check out the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCoGMMBrUeo So give that a watch and see if the disjointed nature of it all is something you'd be on-board with.

This movie could be completely forgotten in a few years or become an underground cult classic or a weird little footnote in the career of a blossoming eccentric filmmaker and none would surprise me.

See this movie. It's on Amazon Prime and Tubi (USA) as of 7/26/21.

EDIT: If you found this from Simon Barrett, he found it from Justin Decloux. And if you found it through Justin Decloux, he found it from me. I'm proud... and sorry.

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