This film floored me. I was not expected to be transported to a dystopian world I had never been to before. This film is an amazing achievement.
Set is a post war world, where North Korea and South Korea are one and where there was a horrible environmental tragedy that has left the world polluted. Suijin is over seeing some Omegas, human mutants with three toes and fins, who are being used as slave/cheap labor. The Omegas mutations look like the effects of Thalidomide. The Omegas also have the ability to kill with their voices. She finds that an Omega named Mia is hiding out in a fishing store. As she investigates, she finds that the official government story is not what she has been told.
I loved this film. I loved that the world the film creates feels real. It feels well thought out or is thought out enough that outside of everyone looking dirty, it feels real. My saying this means something since I have seen several films this year set in their own worlds, and they collapsed because the worlds didn't make sense.
This is a film that feels oppressive. While it's far and away and several tomorrow away the film's examination of how people relate to the government feels of the moment. Also of the moment is the examination of class and of the outsider ("the immigrant"). This is film that is very much an unapologetic social commentary.
The visual elements of the film are both gorgeous and depressing. This is a world we don't want to visit and one we don't want to leave. The film making that makes this real it top of the line with everyone using whatever they can to make it work and make it real.
I know, I'm babbling. Forgive me. This is the wort of film where I want to grab each and every one of you and drag you to a theater to see this.
Just go- this is amazing.
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