Lee Sung-gong (Nam Yeon-woo) is a wiener. That’s the long
and the short of it. As the protagonist of South Korean director Lee Don-ku’s
new revenge drama “Fatal” (“Ga-si-kkot”), he is the kind of character that the
entire world takes a giant crap on. Everyone, including his so-called friends,
pushes him around; he has a glum, dead end, demeaning job; buses don’t even
stop for this guy when he stands there waiting to get on. Even little dogs pick
on this man. As you can imagine, “Fatal” is a story of him gaining a spine for
the first time in his miserable life, and exerting a modicum of power upon the
world around him. But it is also a mediation of guilt, compliance, and the
lasting effects our actions have on each other.
