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The Man Who Saw the Future: Lee Chang-dong’s Peppermint Candy

Two years after announcing himself to the film world with Green Fish, a noir that used the genre’s bleak markers to scaffold the erasure of place, Lee Chang-dong honed in on what he’d become great at: transposing a nation’s soul onto one person. If Green Fish interrogated what it meant to lose your home to urban sprawl and upward mobility, his follow-up zeroes in on the minds broken to achieve it. Peppermint Candy (1999) is a story told in reverse. At...

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