Funny, refreshing and original, if a bit gory.

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2018)

I am saving the second half of this for another day.
It is marvellously funny, and not a little peculiar, even for a Korean film.
Eating an octopus alive isn't the most obvious way to remedy a vitamin deficiency, and relying on your ability to distinguish one particular dumpling from hundreds to get your revenge is uncommonly optimistic.
I'd have gone for kimchi soup myself, even though it has fewer tentacles.
Having a remote control to your pacemaker so you can stop your heart when you feel like it might be quite a popular option. I think my father would have liked such a remote, near the end of his life.
Then there's the case of the third chopstick.. and the homage to 'Marathon Man".
...and to Kafka, though seeing an empty carriage on the Seoul underground is probably the bigger surprise.