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notcoming.com - 10/27/2008
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NYFF coverage – The latest in a long line of emasculated protagonists, Sung-nam is certainly the most negative manifestation of masculinity yet in Hong’s filmography. Sung-nam is spared no embarrassment or pity as he fumbles his way into unwanted relationships with women: his ...
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Night and Day (Bam gua nat) (2008)
Cineholla Collective: Cullen's Blog —
"Hong’s latest film, Night and Day, extends his career-long preoccupation with the confused male psyche—though, at this point we could almost say that Hong’s films are exercises in ritual emasculation: social experiments in which his male protagonists are given center stage to exercise their libido, only to expose (or, in some cases, to reaffirm) their impotency and inadequacy. At the start of Night and Day, several successive intertitles set up the context for the story: Sung-nam, a forty-something Korean artist, smokes marijuana (for the first time) with an American exchange student, who is ...
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