Program Note
A boarding school with an unusual curriculum holds classes at night, based on neuroscience research showing that human concentration is maximized at night. Garid, the son of the prosecutor general, and his friends, Jirgee and Yavuu, and Enerel, an honors student, are about to take a law exam, when they come face to face with the truth behind the boarding school.
Disorder is a genre film that utilizes many of the conventions of the horror genre, such as isolated and closed spaces, scientists with hidden madness and malice, and teenagers as scapegoats. Without relying on the horror of supernatural elements, the film maintains the tension of suspense through the oppressive order that crushes the students’ individuality, the atmosphere of the darkened space, and the mystery structure, while also attempting to become a kind of allegory for education in the modern world. One of the rare examples of a Mongolian film that offers a glimpse into the genre maturation of contemporary Mongolian cinema. (CHO Jaewhee)