Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2003, South Korea)
Ju delivers food for a Chinese restaurant and dreams of becoming a video-game champ like his friend Yi. One night, on the roof above his cramped family apartment, he starts playing 'Resurrection of the Little Match Girl' – or does he just dream it? The object is to make sure that Hans Christian Andersen's forlorn heroine freezes to death on the mean streets with your image in her heart, which entails saving her from assorted predators.
But there are bugs or viruses in play: Ju loses his game ID and his ammo, while the Match Girl goes AWOL and starts taking her defence into her own hands. Made with all the wit and visual flair that you’d expect from Jang and his cinematographer Kim Woo-Hyung, this is brilliantly cast (legendary Chinese transsexual Jin Xing as a lesbian angel, Pierre Rissient as the eyes and voice of The System) and superbly paradoxical: a Buddhist-Taoist thriller with the option of a serene, materialistic happy ending.
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