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Korean Fantastic: Shorts 2

The Extreme Nightmare

LEE Tack

Korea201820min Color World Premiere

Synopsis

A man in a vegetative state, escapes from reality and then goes to refuge in an island of dreams. When he comes and goes between the two worlds, he realizes the correlation between dreams and reality. So he decides to die, but it doesn’t go as planned.

Program Note

What happens to the consciousness of the patient in the vegetative state? The background in the dream world of The Extreme Nightmare is an island where you can feel relaxed. The main character desire is to die comfortably here, while his consciousness is affected by shock his body is receiving. The main character is stimulated by those shocks and recovers the will of life. The shouting in consciousness is revealed in the form of SOS. (HUH Nam-woong)

Diretor

LEE Tack

The Extreme Nightmare (2018)

Credit

Producer
LEE Tack
Screenplay
LEE Tack
Cinematographer
KIM Junho
Editor
LEE Tack
Music
CHOI Hyelee, SUZO