End of Animal: This thoroughly weird and original first feature from Korean director Jo Sung Hee takes a pregnant girl, her cabdriver and a third, uncanny stranger deep into a kind of sudden purgatory or lateral zone and leaves them there. Because the film maintains its allegiance to life's ordinary surfaces, its dead cellphones and stalled cars, torn maps and broken heels, we identify easily and so are all the more disturbed by what unravels on the human plane. Its weirdness speaks, that is, to some unspecified fear we all share, something immediate and unconscious. But the film is not without its humor or irony either. A truly surprising, unsettling, and odd experience. Don't miss it.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
SFIFF54: 'End of Animal'
End of Animal: This thoroughly weird and original first feature from Korean director Jo Sung Hee takes a pregnant girl, her cabdriver and a third, uncanny stranger deep into a kind of sudden purgatory or lateral zone and leaves them there. Because the film maintains its allegiance to life's ordinary surfaces, its dead cellphones and stalled cars, torn maps and broken heels, we identify easily and so are all the more disturbed by what unravels on the human plane. Its weirdness speaks, that is, to some unspecified fear we all share, something immediate and unconscious. But the film is not without its humor or irony either. A truly surprising, unsettling, and odd experience. Don't miss it.
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