Misery Loves Fantasy: Kim Ki-duk’s Arirang (2011)
“Kim decided to retreat into an interior world where he does not need to confront or take but where his time can be sucked up by shitting in fields, smoking fish, getting drunk, and singing.”
Author: Jonathan McCalmont
Jonathan McCalmont is a former academic turned freelance critic working out of London. Continually exploring new forms and narratives, his work has been published at such venues as Strange Horizons, The Escapist and The New York Review of Science Fiction as well as Futurismic and Gestalt Mash, where he has regular columns dealing with video games and graphic novels. He also maintains a blog named Ruthless Culture where he habitually writes about film.
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