Dynamite Man

2013

NEW CHOICE

JEONG Hyeok won | 2013 | Fiction | Color/B&W| DCP | 100min 59sec

SYNOPSIS

Two brothers try to break free of the gang life, only to be attacked in retaliation for their decision. The younger, Heuk-San, is seriously burned and dying in a hospital, which drives his brother, Jeok-San, to take vicious revenge. In the course of his cruel actions, the enraged brother kills the gang members one by one by tying dynamite to their bodies and detonating it. Just before the end of the revenge, Jeok-San meets a priest who spent childhood together with him and his brother. They talk for a long time, Jeok-San gives ashes of his brother, asks a last favor, and leaves for the last revenge. When Jeok-San kills the boss, he becomes a pure darkness which is far from the humanity.

DIRECTING INTENTION

- I attempted to show the process how one can become a pure evil, by completing a revenge for his brother.
- Hard-boiled, film noir, revenge, brothers, a choice of death: I wanted to make a hard-boiled film with these five themes.
- revenge/crime/action/drama

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2013 제18회 부산국제영화제

DIRECTOR
JEONG Hyeok won

JEONG Hyeok won

Three Swindlers (2010, HD, 25min)
Genre Film (2011, HD, 30min)
Gravity (2012, HD, 12min) 

STAFF

Director : JEONG Hyeok won
Producer : CHOI Se mi
Screenwriter : JEONG Hyeok won, JEONG Do won
Cinematography : KIM Hyo won
Editor : JEONG Hyeok won
Lighting : LEE Jeong a
Music : JEONG Jong im
Art Director : PARK Yong jae, JO Min kyeong
Cast : JEONG Do won, PARK Geon gyu, PARK Seong taek, CHO Yong seok, LEE Gyeong Heon, CHO Hye Hoon