Holy Night is an atypical, experimental film containing a confusing jumble of fact and fiction, dream and reality, the author as creator of fictional characters and real criminals and victims, the personal space of novel-writing and the public space of crime. Times and spaces that cannot intersect in real life continually cross into one another through compulsive editing. One day, mystery writer Se Won is visited by the characters in her own novel. But these characters are also the actual victims and parties in a murder that took place in Gyeongju. The stories they tell Se Won become clues to solving the real-life murder. In a way, her creative ability as a writer allows her to predict the future and see into the past. But doesn’t that mean the murder is also of Se Won’s making? Or, like the fantastic dream sequence, is her novel being written by the real murderer through Se Won? In fact, such questions are not answered at the movie’s conclusion. Even the most puzzling of them—how Se Won came to write a serial novel whose plot is identical to a real murder case—remains unexplained. The process of discovering the murderer also depends obscurely on Se Won’s creative inspiration and a sage’s predictions. Her confusion does not end even when the case is solved. When her relationship with her lover enters the dream realm as well, her identity as creator, justice-seeking detective, and everyday individual becomes scattered along the road to Seoul. Se Won’s struggle as an intellectual tormented by the burden of creation is impeccably embodied by CHANG Mi Hee. (CHO Hye Young)