| Plot: | After a psycho kills and eats six women, he is taken to trial, where lawyers argue for and against his sanity, even going so far as to suggest that he may be possessed.
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| Overview: | The film starts out with a bang, with the capture of Cho Myong-gu (Jeong Wung-in), a multiple murderer who has feasted on six women. A painter by trade, Cho likes to draw colorful abstract patterns on his victims' bodies before his meal.
So what makes this artistically inclined cannibal tick? The movie spends a large part of its 110 minutes on that question, with the attorneys arguing over the killer's sanity. The prosecutor (Kang Su-yeon), a tough no-nonsense woman who literally butts heads to get her way, is aiming for the creep's death sentence.
The defense attorney (Chon Chae-ryong), on the other hand, makes a rather unusual argument on behalf of his client. He contends that Cho is possessed by the soul of Gwang-rim, who in the 1930s was involved in a deadly affair with a ``kisaeng'' (Korean for geisha). In his attempt to convince the judge, the attorney seeks the help of psychics, hypnotists and a wealth of circumstantial evidence that would be thrown out of most courts.
Courtesy of Joon Soh, Korea Times.
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