Judgement (1999 film)

Judgement is a 1999 short film by South Korean director Park Chan-wook.

Judgement
Film poster
Hangul심판
Hanja審判
Revised RomanizationSimpan
McCune–ReischauerSimp‘an
Directed byPark Chan-wook
Produced byPark Chan-wook
Written byPark Chan-wook
StarringGi Ju-bong
Koh In-bae
Kwon Nam-hee
Park Ji-il
Choi Hak-rak
Myeong Ji-yeon
CinematographyPark Hyun-Cheol
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
26 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Plot

Park Chan-wook draws on a disaster that took place in South Korea to ironically criticize the greed of rampant capitalism. In 1995, in Seoul, a huge shopping centre, the Sampung department Store collapsed, killing about 500 people and injuring many others. This tragedy was caused by human negligence. Half a million dollars were offered in indemnity to the victims' relatives, and this triggered a merciless looting made by unscrupulous people. In a morgue where the lifeless body of a girl lies, waiting to be identified, a man and a woman, who introduce themselves as the parents of the victim, are distraught over the loss of the young girl. However, after a moment's hesitation, a morgue employee claims the body of the girl. The grotesque controversy about who is the real "owner" of the corpse and the legitimate beneficiary of the money starts here. Between turn of events and paradoxical punishments of fate, the ending leads to a tragic and ironic conclusion. In black and white, the whole story is set in the cold morgue, where the characters' absurd and pathetic dialogues take place, like a journalist and a police detective who keep on squabbling.

Cast
  • Gi Ju-bong
  • Koh In-bae
  • Kwon Nam-hee
  • Park Ji-il
  • Choi Hak-rak
  • Myeong Ji-yeon
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