Borderland
2007USA★ 5.54 pt match
Like The Chaser, this one is rooted in feeling powerless. The world both films live in revolves around poverty. Both move the same way too, bleak, brutal, and escalating.
The Chaser
추격자
2008South KoreaLanguage: koDirected by Na Hong-jin★ 7.8
Available in English: subtitled
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Themes and style
Tone
bleaktensebrutalhaunting
Pacing
relentlessescalatingslow build to explosion
Story
pursuitsurvivalinvestigation
Emotion
feeling powerlessguiltrageinjustice
Themes
corrupt institutionsmen and women navigating expectationspovertyclass and money
Feel
exhaustinggut punchdiscussion starteremotionally wrecking
Violence
graphicWhere to watch
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