Judgement

Description: Park Chan wook draws on a disaster that took place in South Korea to ironically criticize the greed of rampant capitalism In 1995 in Seoul a huge shopping centre the Sampung department Store collapsed killing about 500 people and injuring many others This tragedy was caused by human negligence Half a million dollars were offered in indemnity to the victims relatives and this triggered a merciless looting made by unscrupulous people In a morgue where the lifeless body of a girl lies waiting to be identified a man and a woman who introduce themselves as the parents of the victim are distraught over the loss of the young girl However after a moment s hesitation a morgue employee claims the body of the girl The grotesque controversy about who is the real owner of the corpse and the legitimate beneficiary of the money starts here Between turn of events and paradoxical punishments of fate the ending leads to a tragic and ironic conclusion In black and white the whole story is set in the cold morgue where the characters absurd and pathetic dialogues take place like a journalist and a police detective who keep on squabbling Halfway between Hitchcock and Polanski Judgement reveals all Park s irony about a shabby ignorant and greedy humanity that does not hesitate to come to vile compromises for money

Country:  Korean

Released: 1999

Genre: Drama Short

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