Rough Cut or Real Fiction or The Movie is a Movie.
Korean; 2008.
The Fiction is celebrated as a hero.
Reality is denigrated as a gangster.
The fictitious hero craves for realism, a real source to Appear more realistic, like a convincing real-life hero. He is proud and cannot rest till he can be as good as the real for his fans. He wants to be the most realistic actor, as good as the real, better than the best.
The shady gangster feels more heroic than the biggest star and craves for one chance of recognition, amidst the dark reality of his underworld life of crime and murder to show the world for what he really is. A hero. Something so sub-par standing-in for the real deal feels like an affront to his ego.
Reality and Fiction collide.
They each want to see it to the end for their different reasons.
But try as it may, the noumenon cannot keep up with the phenomenon, which spills beyond the frame of safety and morality and our human constructs. It is indifferent and beyond good and evil.
The hero realizes his heroism ends at the sound of Cut and the Pharmakon is no substitute for reality; he has to live with this knowledge he can never be a hero in real life amidst the clamour of success and celebration.
The gangster knows he cannot fake it and ever be an actor and stop at Cut; his dreams crash in the tragic knowledge he’ll never get that recognition, be seen for what he is.
What starts out as so black and white is not so black and white at all…
Yet, things are not so relative.
Because for the ones on the perilous poison path, the question always hangs, how much reality can you affirm?
What is Real?, and What is Reel?, when you do not discover the box where your heroism stops…?
And you can’t find that till your Pride pushes you to seek and test yourself against higher degrees of reality… the fiction is the hero.
But your Pride pushes you because you cannot fake it… the gangster is the hero.
White and Black and White and Black…
Heroes do not fight in wars.
It is the kind of war that engenders a hero.
Real-Fiction is the site of catharsis.
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