Crazy Bullet (film, 1961)

Seoul , a year or two, how the Korean War ended . The entire film takes place on the background comparison of the social inequality of the rich and the poorest areas of the South Korean capital.

The petty clerk, Son Chol Ho, is going through a worse, probably, period of life. He huddles with his family in a miserable shack and barely makes ends meet to feed an elderly sick mother, a pregnant wife and two teenage children. His younger brother, Young Ho , a veteran of the past war, who was unable to find work, drinks out casual incomes with former fellow soldiers. Sister caught by the police in prostitution with American soldiers. Finally, the acute toothache and the lack of money for the dentist finally make it impossible for him to think sensibly.

Yong makes a desperate attempt to wrest the whole family out of poverty: he makes an armed raid on the bank. The police manage to detain him. Cholu give a date with his brother. The unhappy clerk endures a farewell meeting and, exhaustedly, goes home. But even there, there is no comfort: the sister reports that his wife was taken to the hospital, and, assuming possible medical expenses, she gives her brother a wad of money. Their origin Chholu is understandable, but he is forced to accept them. In the hospital, he is beaten by the final blow - his wife and child died in childbirth. Mad and having lost everything, he goes to where he can deal with the last problem available to solve - to pull out a bad tooth. His soul needs bodily agony, he requires the doctor to remove each tooth, sick and healthy, to the last, without anesthesia .

Chol's final monologue: “I tried to be a good son, a good husband, a father, a brother, a clerk ... How many good goals have I chosen? Did the Lord let me out like a stray bullet without giving me a goal? But I have to move somewhere, in some direction, at least somewhere ... ”

• Kim Jin Gyo - Son Cheol Ho
• Mun Jung Suk - his wife
• Choi Mo Ryong - Yong Ho, his brother

• Professor Jeong, Dongguk University ( en: Dongguk University ): “The characters in the film are very complex, the best way to understand them is to follow the plot, imagining that this is a dream. When you look at the characters in the works of Yu Hyun, you need to remember that many moments are drawn from his life ... That is why the inner world of the characters is so expressive ” ^[4] .
• Internet resource Koreangrindhouse: “Given the powerful social realism, one would think that the film is a product of North Korea. But at the same time, it is difficult to present a picture of this country with such a depression and without communist codes ” ^[5] .

• Roman Volobuev, “Poster”: ““ A stray bullet ”is such a clearly alcoholic and at the same time anti-capitalist noir of 1960. He came out (or rather, he did not, censorship banned him) almost simultaneously with Kim Ki-Young's “ Maid ”, with whom they are now vying for the title of the main South Korean film of all time. And if the "Maid" gave birth to the beloved mannerist-Freudian pop-pathology - in the range of, excuse me, Kim Ki Duk to Pak Chan Vuka - more or less new South Korean noirs came out of "Puli", about how people got life , from “ Memories of a Murder ” to “The Persecutor” or “The Last Drunk of the President” ” ^[2] .

• “Stray Bullet” (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database  
• “Stray Bullet” (eng.) On the Allrovi website  
• "Stray Bullet" (eng.) On the site Rotten Tomatoes