SPY CAMERA

Spy Camera is a Korean variation and an unpdate of Dostoievski's Crime and Punishment, a story that has inspired many films and adaptations. It is set in a present where surveillance is all important.

1.A young Korean director? Style and content?

2.The title, use? Surveillance, espionage, personal spying? The confession?

3.The photography, high-definition video, exteriors, interiors? Memories? Use of the digital style?

4.Crime and punishment, reading it, acting it out, identifying with it, reflection? Kang and the crime? Raskolnikov? The police as Sonya? The chief? Dostoyevsky, issues of crime, justice and God?

5.The information at the end? The linear aspect of the film? Spying, the two years, the police, the communists? Information, the trial, hiding? Death?

6.The room and its confines, the corridor, the peephole? The effect – and no exit? Getting out, the suit, bashing? The end and the countryside – yet no exit?

7.Boredom and angst, for each of the characters? Idle, eating, games, the heat? Singing and drinking? The role of the girl?

8.The janitors listening in, the sexual aspects, the man and his being tormented, the girl and her behaviour, participation, raped? The memories?

9.The police, age? Divorce and reason, homophobia? Eating, the phone, the camera, the clashes, the intruders, the rape?

10.Kang, young, filming the room, reading, acting out, arguing, drinking, the girl getting out, the suit, the bashing? The return?

11.The picture of the janitors and their role?

12.The girl, her background, experience, victim?

13.The chief, the promotions?

14.The trip, the talk on the way, the woods, the end and the camera?

15.Themes of individuals, conscience? State, fascism, the imposition of terror?