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Real Fiction (2000)
2K
Original name: 실제상황
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A repressed artist receives ritual abuse from those who pass him as he paints portraits in the park. Gradually becoming more frustrated, anger builds up within the artist, leading him to embark upon a quest to gain revenge on all those who have humiliated him.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic, experimental, avant garde
Plot:
mental illness, vengeance, rivalry, violence spree, chases and races, artist, asian, revenge, murder, performer's life, female nudity, one day, deadly, cmnf, crime, crimes
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, korea
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