Dustin Kiyeon Chang · @Dustin
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Some no good gang is holed up in a shady apartment, shooting people down in the street at random. A young photographer takes pictures of a man shot dead on the street by the same gang. A fiction writer is having a writer's block, but her supportive but meekly doctor husband doesn't understand what she's going through. The film is a puzzle piece that doesn't resolve neatly, yet done in smart, intriguing way, you can't help but admire Yang's skills as a filmmaker. On paper it reads like a sordid crime film yet Terrorizers is nothing but. Yang suggests that the wayward youth with no moral compass, who is the catalyst for everything that happens in the film might be the work of fiction, that her appearance is what people are wishing for in their daily tedious lives. With Haneke like double take at the end, the film puts an emphasis on the fiction overtaking reality overtaking fiction. Ambitious and seductive, is by far my fav Yang film.

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