[South Korean] Save the Green Planet! - Joon-Hwan Jang (2003)

Save the Green Planet! (Jigureul jikyeora!)
from Joon-Hwan Jang

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Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world.

This is one of those very good surprises. I don’t know if that happens to you a lot but sometimes I buy a movie without knowing at all what it is, never heard of it, don’t know if it’s good, and just by looking at the cover, I buy it
Ok you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (oups sorry “a movie” ) and you should defenetly not do this too much else you end up with a big collection of crappy movies but sometimes out of all the crap, you can discover very rare and interesting pieces
(thanks to Boudisque )

Save the green Planet is one of these very rare and interesting pieces
I loved it
This movie is unclassable simply because it contains all genres
It is a comedy, drama, thriller, horror, sci-fi, a satire… as well as a social critisism
It has everything, carefully thought and bloody entertaining

And it is really good, surprising till the end (which you wont expect lol) and very well done
A must see




WATCH IT

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This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is actually an alien from the planet Andromeda. Lee's frumpy acrobat girlfriend (Hwang Jung-Min) helps him abduct the "alien" and torture him into confessing. Meanwhile, a hangdog detective is following a trail leading to Lee's hideout high in the mountains. Let the timid be warned: this is not the antipollution comedy that the title might indicate. Man's inhumanity to man is certainly depicted - as in events like Korea's 1980 Kwangju riots - but there's more going on here than any one summation could describe: bees attack, a pet dog named Earth dines on human remains, alternate theories of evolution are posited (i.e. Noah's Ark was a deep submarine carrying DNA samples); an entire lifetime of films, political turmoil, anime and manga are boiled down and distilled into one profound, multi-textual allegory. Adventurous viewers will be in for one hell of a ride, as this film dares go where few have gone before, yet it does so with heart and intellect to match its wicked humor and headlong momentum.

wow...

I'm going to order it tonight!!!

oh...and yeah, I do that a lot, buying movies because "the cover looks awesome"...

then again, I have a large quantity of crappy movies (I must admit, that's what you get when you buy up people's old VHS collections )

And here is the trailer

AWESOME!

I'm gonna see this one!