Actors Park Yong-woo, left, and Eum Tae-woong star in the thriller ``Hand Phone.’’ Coming to theaters Feb. 19, the noir thriller shows how personal information in a lost cell phone can be used in all the wrong ways. /Courtesy of SK Telecom``Paradise Murdered’’ director Kim Han-min brings yet another unconventional thriller, ``Hand Phone.’’ But unlike his previous work, the setting shifts from an isolated island to the big city and, like its title suggests, revolves around every urbanite’s essential hardware, the cell phone
The cell phone, which South Koreans commonly call ``hand phone’’ and thus the title of the film, has appeared without fail in recent thrillers such as ``Seven Days.’’ ``Hand Phone’’ also has the victim running around as the perpetrator whispers orders from the other line. It capitalizes on the familiar anxiety of looking for a charger when the battery starts dying out on an important conversation. It also shows the perils of losing one’s personal information held by cell phones.
The beauty of the film lies in its haunting revelation of the grotesque in things mundane and the unleashing of the latent beast within individuals, including the most docile, under-pressing or unexpected situations. The movie is all about character development, and Park Yong-woo’s (``Once Upon a Time in Corea’’) skin-crawling yet sympathy-provoking performance is the reason for watching the film. >>More
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