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Stateless Things

Country: South Korea, Language: Korean, 115 mins

Original Title

Jool-tak-dong-si
  • Director: Kyung-mook Kim
  • Writer: Kyung-mook Kim

CGiii Comment

2 hours of unadulterated tedium.

Perhaps, this is a mood piece - the mood is so low that battling to stay awake becomes a chore. Succumb.

Poor, illegal immigrant resorts to prostitution to pay his way...then, there is the young man kept in opulence by his sugar daddy...these two disparate souls meet - after what seems to be an eternity. And, nothing much happens.

Unimpressive to say the least.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Jun (Paul Lee) is an illegal immigrant from North Korea, working in a gas station under an exploitative and abusive boss. Hyeon (Yeom Hyunjoon) is the kept boy of a married businessman, who has set him up in a swanky apartment near the government's headquarters in Yeouido. Both young men are in trouble. Jun's lack of an official identity and papers limits him to dead-end jobs (the gas station, handing out flyers, and eventually male prostitution) and leaves him always in fear of arrest and deportation. Hyeon, who is supposed to be available whenever his sugar daddy "needs" him, stifles in his up-market "prison". These two finally find each other through an Internet site, with disastrous results. The sudden convergence of their opposite lives gives Kim the cues he needs for a series of reflections on the implications of "statelessness".

Cast & Characters

Hyeong-gook Im as Seonghoon;
Sae-byeok Kim as Soonhee;
Paul Lee as Joon;
Hyun-Joon Yeom as Hyun