Another Sundance Film, another case of terror, chills up and down my spine, and a little twisted after watching Kim Ki-duk’s Samaritan Girl. Wow, what a flipping intense film. The story starts off with two teenage schoolgirls who have gotten into the roles of prostitute and pimp. The premise for this situation has something to do with getting plane tickets for the two of them to travel from Seoul to Europe, but it’s never fully fleshed out. The seemingly younger girl is having sex with adult men and charging them for it. Her friend is making the calls, setting the price and location, and waiting for her friend. Such waiting includes watching for the cops who (a) bust prostitution and (b) especially go after underage girls having sex with adult men.

Okay, if you’re not creeped out yet, the film gets creepier as the “pimp” girl confronts her conscience and feels like she’s doing a bad thing and making her best friend have to do horrible things. Her friend, however, seems to take joy in living life right here and right now, without any thoughts to the consequences or future. This carefree attitude because a major crux of the plot and involves themes of mourning, reconciliation, and ties that bind family and friends and strangers.