Synopsis
The only joy for Roman, a welder who leads a rather reclusive life, is to sneak a peek at a beautiful lady in his neighborhood everyday on the way back home after work. One day, he accidently runs into the woman, but a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to murder. What has started out as an ordinary romance movie turns into a bizarre thriller. This movie is reminiscent of by Alfredo HITCHCOCK as it deals with a man who suffers from fetish-like obsession, and a relationship between two women connected by death. Just like Scottie who is obsessed with his fantasy woman Madeleine, Roman is obsessed with the corpse of a woman whose name he doesn't even know. After her death, another woman, who is ironically fascinated by the phenomenon of death, approaches him. Between the two axes of women who are dead and who are in pursuit of death, Roman is trapped in his harsh destiny as if caught in a spider web. It feels as if the movie put motives of necrophilia directly forward, which were only secretively allusive in Vertigo . The movie hurtles toward a simpler and more shocking ending. Roman's director Angela Bettis played the main character May in directed by Roman's main actor Lucky McKee. With its interesting attempt at changing roles between the main actor and the director, tells a rather simple storyline with tension using a series of fantastic montages that reveal Roman's state of mind. Roman is a sexual movie and is a masterpiece that effectively combines a lyrical story with gore imagery. (CHOI Eun Young)