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Save the Green Planet, 2003

Starring: Shin Ha-gyun, Baek Yun-Shik, Hwang Jung-Min, Ha-kyun Shin

Directed by: Jang Jun-Hwan

Written by: Jang Jun-Hwan

Language: Korean

Country: South Korea

Runtime: 118 min

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Rating:7.4

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Save the Green Planet can be described as offbeat, exciting, and humorous. The plot revolves around antiheroes, kidnapping, and a race against time. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor and satire. Save the Green Planet's main genres are foreign, comedy, and sci-fi. In terms of style, it is surreal. In approach, it is fantastical. Save the Green Planet has received attention for being critically acclaimed.

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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.

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Language:	Korean
Country:	South Korea
Release date:	14 August 2004
Runtime:	118 min

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Shin Ha-gyun

Baek Yun-Shik

as Kang Man-shik

Hwang Jung-Min

as Su-ni

Ha-kyun Shin

as Lee Byeong-gu

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San Francisco Chronicle

A very human story. Full Review

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by: Ruthe Stein

Variety

Though certainly not to everyone's tastes, this looney-tunes pic about a deranged serial killer who thinks he's helping Earth by killing off supposed aliens works on a variety of levels, from gruesome slapstick comedy through social critique to... Full Review

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by: Derek Elley

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It has the shock and awe of a Miike film, the cleverness of usual Suspects, and a pure sadness that underlies the whole film. In the begining, I htought it was just a black sci-fi comedy, but this movie just kept revealing more and more of itself. Read and rate it

11.June.2010
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by: sonicblue99
sonicblue99 rated this movie0/10

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