1999
(Pusan) Busan International Film Festival
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觀眾票選獎
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Some choose to change society through words. Some release pressure through acts of violence. Others exile themselves in sex. When values and beliefs collapse, what remains—ghosts or humans? In a world spiraling out of order, they descend into collective ecstasy and moral decay— yet also rise in fierce, unrelenting debate. They may be revolutionaries from Japan’s student movement era, a gay man reenacting the Oedipal tale of desire and patricide, or men and women consumed by the thrill of power and lust. But beneath these extremes of reason and emotion lies a common thread: a desperate, lucid critique of existence itself. Giloo presents six handpicked films from East Asia— each delving into a raw and radical human struggle on the edge of belief, where the urge to live collides with the desire to disappear.
A wealthy scion whose life is taken over by a mysterious doppelgänger, a lonely young wife who encounters a peeping tom, an alien monster crawling out of an ancient tomb, the gradually dissolving boundary between human and machine... Cult master Shinya Tsukamoto uses his wildest imagination as raw material, seasoned with body horror, to present a blood-soaked feast that leaves audiences squirming.
Humans pride themselves on being "rational animals," yet in waving the banner of reason, how often do we overlook the passions and turbulence that defy reduction? Are our actions truly as orderly and logical as we believe? At what point does the pursuit of order and truth tip into the realm of madness? Perhaps "strangeness" is an essential part of being human — and the boundary between reason and insanity is far thinner than we imagine.