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Comments on Friday 17 May 2002:
On a vaguely related note, I saw an excellent Korean movie a couple of days ago, thanks to Rogue; "Attack The Gas Station". It has a certain element of Rebel Without A Cause and Tarantino about it, except that it doesn't suck. It is an odd montage of short entertaining scenes, completely sequential and connected but easily separated into "the scene with the police", and so forth. There are clear dividing lines between scenes, but almost every scene is entertaining in its own right. The story is of four young men who, being bored, decide to rob the titular gas station. A short while later they rob the same gas station again; this time the owner claims that he sent the money away with his wife. They decide to hold him and the gas station hostage until he can contact her and have her bring the money. In the meantime, they amuse themselves by ripping off the customers, beating up the local gang who come round asking for protection money, and so forth. It's a very difficult movie to describe without describing individual scenes in excruciating detail. It's also a surprisingly good movie, much better than any description (given its theme) could depict. [09:59]

Kyle
I will have to go searching for this movie, it sounds amusing.
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