Starring Kim Nam-gil and Kim Young-kwang, this dystopian drama in which firearms flood Korea alludes to America’s mass-shooting problem
2/5 stars
Lead cast: Kim Nam-gil, Kim Young-kwang
For the longest time, guns were a rarity in Korean media. Beyond the odd hunting rifle, classic films such as Park Chan-wook’s Lady Vengeance (2005) had to contrive elaborate ways to introduce even a single pistol into a story.
Twenty years later, we live in a very different Korean media landscape, one that believes global audiences are clamouring for Korean genre content to become more violent and audacious with each passing season.
