PEPPERMINT CANDY (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 2001). THEMES: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SUICIDE. Arresting story of the roots of a suicide. An agitated 40 year old man disrupts a reunion of his old friends, then suicides as we watch. Long flashbacks then sequentially review the prior 20 years of his life, the most recent epoch shown first. Gradually the circumstances and personal misconduct leading to the suicide are revealed. Fine performance by Sol Kyung-Gu as the protagonist. (In Korean). Grade: B (02/01)
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