Resurrection of the Little Match Girl
Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996–2003
November 22 - December 12, 2019
Blurring the lines between cinema, virtual reality, and choose-your-own-adventure thrill ride, this postmodern, mind-warp techno-fantasy comes perhaps as close as film has to replicating the labyrinthine logic of a video game.
Blurring the lines between cinema, virtual reality, and choose-your-own-adventure thrill ride, this postmodern, mind-warp techno-fantasy comes perhaps as close as any film has to replicating the labyrinthine logic of a video game. Ju (Kim Hyun-sung) is a computer game–obsessed delivery boy who finds himself seemingly living in an elaborate video game based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Little Match Girl.” His morbid objective: to lead her into a peaceful death while thinking only of him. As he is plunged further into the hyperkinetic, bullet-riddled world of the game, this digital neon fever dream spins off into increasingly hallucinatory realms.
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