Like the cult hit The Matrix, Sun-woo Jang's latest sci-fi work The Resurrection of the little match girl contrived an exquisitely woven web of ruthless reality and subversively violent fantasyland in which our heroes and heroines had alternated from being manipulated by game players to manipulating one another by themselves. Combining such game-within-game plot with the original idea of the well-known Danish fairy tale by HC Andersson, the director captures fatuous egotism and unreasonable superciliousness of the X-Generation.
This time his approach appears much closer to the heart and mind of the contemporary Korean young groups. They have seemed so lost in their real society that they have been consuming time and money in the internet world in order to find the release. It is, therefore, quite natural that frequent abusiveness, pervasive violence, sardonic cartoonized characters take up the major part of the movie. The most refreshing point is owed to utilizing the "little match girl", who is pathetic in the beginning and becomes a revengeful lady in the latter part.
Unlike the cult hit The Matrix, the obviously obnoxiousness of this movie lies in the lavish minor characters, most of whom could not function effectively or contribute to the development of the complicated plot but trivialized and metamorphosed into an enervating mess.
Recommend it to those who like Director's previous anarchist work Bad Movie and Lies, then put it away if you're a fan of cult classic.
