How to Become a Tree One day, young and physically healthy Yong-hye found herself unable to eat meat or even tolerate his presence. Not beliefs, but smells and strange dreams pushed the main character on a strict plant diet.
In this story, most resembling a medical history, the accents placed by the director are surprising. The insistence on the tragic nature of events is accompanied by an attempt to take the place of Yong-hye. As a result, the bifurcated position of the director turns the story of a girl dying from schizophrenia and anorexia into a kind of feat, with the necessary suffering on the way to a plant state and beauty in the form of a floral ornament on an emaciated body.
Oddly enough, the behavior of Yong Hye fits into the framework of Eastern philosophy. Vegetarianism becomes the road to a new state, freeing the main character (and half of the director’s consciousness) from the differences between modern art and pornography, dreams and reality, life and death.
3 out of 10
Original