Eight years after Warriors of the Dawn, director Jung Yoon-chul returns with a far more intimate project that is all the more powerful and impressive due to its small scale. Recalling Lars Von Trier's Dogville, Sea Tiger takes place almost entirely on a barebones sound stage. Initially feeling like a filmed play, it steadily becomes an immersive and richly cinematic experience as the engrossing and emotional story takes hold. The story, drawn from Kim Tak-hwan's novel 'Sea of Lies', recounts the experiences of divers who risked their lives to retrieve the bodies of the victims of the Sewol Ferry Sinking in 2014. Centered around diver Na Kyung-soo (Lee Ji-hoon), the action is split between the months after the tragedy, as divers searched the wreckage, and...
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