{"id":19126,"date":"2026-10-23T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:02:48","slug":"three-extremes-2004-miike-park-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/19126","title":{"rendered":"Three Extremes (2004, Miike &#038; Park &#038; Chan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Dumplings<\/em> (Fruit Chan)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bai Ling of <em>Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow<\/em> is abortionist-chef Aunt Mei, and her latest rich customer is from <em>Don\u2019t Go Breaking My Heart 2<\/em>.  I once watched the feature-length version of this on bootleg DVD, which defeats the point of bathing in all the lovely green shades brought out by Christopher Doyle, shooting a WKW movie without the blurry slow-mo.  The movie&#8217;s other point is to gross you out with all the baby-eating, which evokes Monty Python&#8217;s crunchy frog sketch.  Customer wants to look youthful forever so her bigshot husband Tony 2 will keep liking her, and maybe eating babies is the answer?  Nice peek into early-century medicine, doctor handing out mood-altering pills to pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Cut<\/em> (Park Chan-wook)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opening long-take of a vampire film-in-the-film, the camera doing that post-<em>Fight Club<\/em> thing where it has to float through objects.  Later, the vampire film&#8217;s director (the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18190\">No Other Choice<\/a><\/em> guy) has been tied up on the same set, while an extra from his films explains his class resentment while chopping off fingers from the director&#8217;s pianist wife (the chef\/daughter of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15888\">Oldboy<\/a><\/em>).  The extra has got an overcomplicated revenge plot (and a nice dance routine), and everyone ends up confessing too many things until the wife gets close enough to bite her kidnapper&#8217;s neck off, then the director strangles her while she&#8217;s still immobile.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Box<\/em> (Takashi Miike)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer dreams of a man burying a box, then has a long, slow conversation with her agent.  Writer is near-catatonic, flashbacks reveal she was half of a contortionist circus act whose act involved two sisters who could fold themselves into two small boxes.  One night she locked her sister in the box and attacked their keeper with a dart, then the place burned down.  Sorry to make the movie sound exciting &#8211; it&#8217;s mostly her moving very slowly while feeling trauma, reliving the fire again and again, until her dreams\/visions allow her to apologize to the dead sister in the box after being berated by the circusmaster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/extremes7.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumplings (Fruit Chan) Bai Ling of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is abortionist-chef Aunt Mei, and her latest rich customer is from Don\u2019t Go Breaking My Heart 2. I once watched the feature-length version of this on bootleg DVD, which defeats the point of bathing in all the lovely green shades brought out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,532,955,741,218,91,3079,3058,104,3569],"class_list":["post-19126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-anthology-film","tag-cannibalism","tag-chan-wook-park","tag-circus","tag-filmmaking","tag-finger-trauma","tag-fruit-chan","tag-takashi-miike","tag-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19139,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions\/19139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}