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"A
story about life and love - although love is not always spectacular. Love
is, in general, stylized in films, but only a small change in angle is
necessary to discover all of its absurdity and hopeless. This is, also,
a story about the dream of living, eating, and making love without having
to work. Social orthodoxy has it that all of the world has the right to
work and to lead a decent life and, for this reason, I find it most amusing
to show a point of view to the contrary".
This
is the definition given by Jang Sun Woo to the obsessive and sadistic
relationship established between a girl of eighteen years and a sculptor
of thirty-eight, which results in a film of radical eroticism.
In
the first encounter, she gives herself and her virginity to him. In the
second, sex becomes more intense. In the third, he brings along a whip
- violence becomes a central element of their sexual encounters. When
her brother discovers the truth about the relationship, she decides to
leave home and to live from motel to motel with her lover. She only returns
when she learns of the death of her brother, and breaks off the unhealthy
romance. Later, however, she seeks him out for she wishes to see him one
last time, before moving to Brazil.
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