-SPOILER WARNING- This is a very low, low, low budget film from South Korea, a country that for the last 5 years has experienced a boom in its film industry. Two years ago a film called Swiri defeated Titanic at the South Korean box office. Last year, Chingu, a film seen by over eight million people in Korea, became the all-time box office champion. The plot is very simple and the title is self-explanatory too. A teenage hooker gets pregnant by her teacher. He hires three killers who chop her to pieces. A mysterious onlooker takes the pieces away a reconstructs her as a cyborg. She then takes revenge on the four men. The teenage, wearing a typical schoolgirl sailor uniform represents the three archetypes of mother, whore and Madonna. The film starts as a really funny comedy. She asks a client if he wants to do it right there on the spot or go for a mile, this meaning playing a raping game where she runs for a mile followed by her customer and finally gets raped. To another customer she asks: Honey or Dad ?. She then meets her teacher and they start to dance to the rhythm of a song by a South Korean rock band. This is probably the funniest and also weirdest sequence in the whole film. John Travolta and Uma Thurman: GET LOST!!!. This is followed by the schoolgirl's announcement that she is pregnant and her desire to be a good mother. She wants to forget her days as a prostitute, including having recently had sex with her new stepfather. She also tells the teacher how much she loves him and reminds him of how even though she sucked every single penny from the Ethics & Biology teachers she never charged him. Just as she is being rebuilt into a killing machine there is a shot where she is seen with tubes connected to her body in a position that looks like the Madonna in numerous paintings. The halo of light surrounding her gives her an even more heavenly nature. This sequence borrows imaginary from the anime Ghost in the Shell. It also borrows from Test, especially in the final sequence where she kills her teacher with a mechanical penis gun. The film has an atmospheric but perverse feeling thanks to the use of surreal compositions, colour filters and wide angle lenses But it gets bogged down with the use of too many shots of the schoolgirls walking around the centre of Seoul. The music does not help much either, apart from the above mention rock song, as it levels the film down to a music video. Nevertheless is a reassuring film for filmmakers beginners'. Shot on DV on an ultra low budget, it has actually been shown at the London Film Festival this year.
