Jong-su watches from a distance as Ben (Steven Yeun) reveals to Hae-mi that he burns down "useless greenhouses" every two months. Hae-mi dances a "Great Hunger" dance to a jazz track, then cries. Ben yawns. Why it matters: It is the most chilling depiction of class sociopathy ever filmed. Ben isn't a monster—he’s bored. The ambiguity of whether Hae-mi’s well exists or not haunts the rest of the film.

The abolition of censorship in 1996 and the success of big-budget action films like

: The first domestic film, Righteous Revenge (1919), was a "kino-drama" where live actors performed against a projected backdrop.