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Title: 2 stars for "3 Extremes"
Review: I was looking forward to seeing this film due to the good reviews I'd heard and the sterling reputations of Takashi Miike and Park Chan-Wook (I'd never heard of Fruit Chan before), but I was very disappointed. Miike's "Box" is the best of the bunch, a surreal psychological portrait of guilt with a startling image at the end. Chan's "Dumplings" is an obvious, simplistic morality play with an ending I could see from a mile away. (I wonder if it plays better for Chinese speakers. It occured to me that this segment could function as a commentary on China's "one child" policy, but this is not evident from the subtitles.) Park's "Cut" is a bizarre set piece that provoked much discussion among the people I saw it with about exactly what happened and what it meant; the only thing we could all agree on was that this contrived mess wasn't worth the energy of the debate.
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