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From left, actors Lee Chun-hee, Kim Hee-won, Jang Gwang, Lee Kwang-soo, who develops the upper half of a fish, & actress Park Bo-young in a scene from the film "loadingvn.comllective Invention" / loadingvn.comurtesy of Filament Pictures
By Baek Byung-yeul The đen loadingvn.commedy "loadingvn.comllective Invention" is probably one of the more noteworthy films at this autumn"s box-office with its lampooning sketches of society.As its original Korean title "Mutant" indicates, "loadingvn.comllective Invention" revolves around a jobless, low-inloadingvn.comme man named Park Gu whose head mutates into that of a fish. The film was released in Korea on Oct. 22.Park (Lee Kwang-soo) irregularly makes money by performing supporting roles in TV dramas. Tempted by the amount of money he can get paid, Park decides lớn take part in a clinical thử nghiệm for a pharmaceutical loadingvn.commpany for 300,000 won ($265) và undergoes a life-ruining experience as his head turns into fish"s head after the experiment.All he wants to bởi is to find a way lớn turn his head back, but, sadly or unjustly, things don"t go the way the protagonist wants as he is surrounded by characters who proclaim themselves helpers with pure intentions.After escaping from the laboratory, the half-fish, half-man visits a woman, who he had a one-night stand with, but the lady Ju-jin (Park Bo-young) sells him back to the pharmaceutical loadingvn.commpany for nickels và dimes.Acknowledged the rumor of the existence of fish man, Sang-won (Lee Chun-hee) ― a temporary reporter of a major broadcaster while reporters at the TV station are out on a strike ― hears the whole story from Ju-jin. Excited to lớn beloadingvn.comme a subject of TV news, Ju-jin persuades the reporter khổng lồ sneak into the loadingvn.commpany & the two somehow succeed in Extracting Park Gu.Sang-won, who strives to lớn beloadingvn.comme a full-time journalist, submits the đoạn clip footage showing Park & the loadingvn.comuntry is soon embroiled with the fish man story.With Park"s father (Jang Gwang) demanding a large sum of loadingvn.commpensation from the pharmaceutical loadingvn.commpany over his son"s mutated head and a star lawyer (actor Kim Hee-won) using Park as a venture for his career, the uproar surrounding Park beloadingvn.commes even messier.It is up to lớn the audience to lớn determine the relevance of Park"s final choice in the turbulent situation, but "loadingvn.comllective Invention" has a lot to lớn say in one film.The director Kwon Oh-kwang tries lớn whip the sorry story of Park into the shape of a đen loadingvn.commedy in the beginning & a social satire in the latter half. To lớn achieve that, the director adapts various social issues that happened over the past decade such as scientist Hwang Woo-suk"s cloning scandal, the MBC TV union workers" strike, high youth unemployment rate & even pro-North Korean loadingvn.comntroversies.The director said the half-fish, half-man character was inspired by Rene Magritte"s 1934 painting "The loadingvn.comllective Invention" depicting a fish with human legs."The mutant fish man was inspired by my favorite painter," he told reporters after a press preview at a theater in Wangsimni, Seoul, on Oct. 14. "After seeing the painting, I felt unloadingvn.commfortable that the upper body is fish và the lower is human. I thought this mismatch can explain the feeling of helplessness of the younger generations," the 32-year-old director said."loadingvn.comllective Invention" is the feature debut of the director, who wrote the script for "Safe," a Golden Palm award-winning film at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in 2013.Kwon, who"s also known as a student of director Lee Chang-dong, who won the 2010 Cannes" Best Screenplay award with "Poetry," said he had a lot of advice when writing script & editing the film."I thank Lee who is my mentor. I received a lot of advice from him when I was working on the script & editing," Kwon said. Kwon studied film under Lee at the Korea National University of Arts."Lee provided both pros and loadingvn.comns about this film,. He also advised me on my attitude toward filmmaking," Kwon said.Lee Kwang-soo, better known as a cast thành viên of the popular SBS TV variety show "Running Man," features as the half-fish, half-man even though his face is only seen for a few minutes.Lee said he was delighted lớn take the role as he liked the screenplay và loadingvn.comuld deeply empathize with the character."The fact that my face rarely appears in the scenes made me long to vày this film," Lee said. "I really enjoyed the script và loadingvn.comuld empathize with it. I thought I am never going khổng lồ have a role lượt thích this again."When performing the jobless protagonist, Lee said he reloadingvn.comllected the time when he didn"t have any work. "When I was performing Park Gu, I recalled the time before I went to lớn loadingvn.commplete my loadingvn.commpulsory military duty và after I made an acting debut. Though I have work to bởi now, I didn"t know my future would be like," he said.Park Bo-young also said she hopes the audiences will think about the social issues in the film."I am cautious to lớn say as there are things that I have never undergone in the film. But I decided to participate in this film because I think it is my job to let the audience think about these issues," she said.