TIMELESS BOTTOMLESS BAD MOVIE
Dir. Jang Sun-Woo, 1997
South Korea, 144 min.
In Korean with English subtitles

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Offering more than a few glimpses of pure transgressive brilliance, TIMELESS BOTTOMLESS BAD MOVIE has many layers of depth among its distinctive stink. Using documentary footage and reenactments, BAD MOVIE is about the alienated youth who riot for they have the energy and the disfranchised homeless who are just too tired to do anything about it. BAD MOVIE’s constantly shifting and warped narrative is never jagged, tired, or acts like it’s fucking around. Many vignettes come off as a classier Gregg Araki without the urgency, cheese, and panic, or even a pessimistic Wong Kar-Wai without the wonder and twee. Balancing between scenes of the two subjects first strike as lofty and loose, but as the film closes, their parallels turn into staggering segments of revelations full of perceptiveness. In a decade of laziness but heightened awareness, Jang Sun-Woo has crafted the nearly perfect Generation X version of a New Wave film.