Cinematography:
Chan-min ChoiCast:
Ho-jin Chun, Hae-jin Yu, Hyo-rim Seo, Seo-hyung Kim, Jeong-heon Lee, Mi-ran Ra, Sung-bum Kim, Yeong-seok Lee, Won-hee JoPlots(1)
Is it possible to create a viable thriller with only two main characters who spend most of the time in one room and are barely capable of moving? Starting from this absurd premise, the director created an inspired and superbly suspenseful movie, an original genre experiment whose plentiful black humor brings a touch of objectivity to the undertaking. A paralyzed man lies in a hospital bed and would just as soon die. But after a new patient is assigned to his room, the hero quickly recovers his zest for life and his desire to rehabilitate himself because he realizes that the other man, similarly paralyzed and suffering from amnesia, is the one who murdered his wife. In addition to numerous twists that gradually reveal the adversaries’ common past, the film keeps the audience in suspense via the bedridden hero’s ingenious plans to kill his opponent using hospital equipment. Enemy at the Dead End presents one of the most original genre debuts to come out of the South Korean film industry last year. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Ho-jin Chun
South Korea
Best movies:
Dawn (2010) (series)
The Snow Queen (2006) (series)
City Hunter (2011) (series)
Hae-jin Yu
South Korea
Best movies:
Once in a Summer (2006)
The King and the Clown (2005)
A Taxi Driver (2017)
Hyo-rim Seo
South Korea
Best movies:
Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) (series)
Red Sleeve (2021) (series)
That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013) (series)
Seo-hyung Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
SKY Castle (2018) (series)
Over the Rainbow (2002)
Desire to Kill (2010)
Jeong-heon Lee
South Korea
Best movies:
Crying Fist (2005)
Big Bang (2007)
Strokes of Fire (2002)
Mi-ran Ra
South Korea
Best movies:
Hope (2013)
Late Blossom (2010)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)
Sung-bum Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017) (series)
Garden of the Wind (2008) (series)
Oh My Ghost (2015) (series)
Yeong-seok Lee
South Korea
Best movies:
The King and the Clown (2005)
Mother (2009)
Time (2006)
Won-hee Jo
South Korea
Best movies:
Desire to Kill (2010)