2023-05-10 08:10:36
A mess involves the life and death of many people, a magnifying glass leaning on the multi-ethnic society and the art of getting by
«The clash» (Beef), 10 episodes of about 30 minutes each, is a series that conquers quickly because behind the dimension of the thriller it is populated by various figures, it shows the hysteria of today’s world, the amorality and also the new way of looking at family life. Above all it shows adoration for the god Dollar, conjugated in many senses. It is interesting how the series conceived by Lee Sung Jin, directed by Jake Schreier and Hikari, produced by A 24 the house awarded by the Oscars with «Everything, everywhere… », is also the not so hidden diagram of the Asian population in the USA today , particularly in a Californian region, Orange County, formerly home to a successful comedy.
The Clash can be read in many ways: it is a comedy imbued with black humour, it is a yellow that comes from the famous gesture of the middle finger that is used as a car insult, because the mess that will involve the life and death of many people starts right here; if it were filmed in another way it could be an amusing outline for a romantic story, as we see it is a magnifying and deformation glass leaning on multi-ethnic society and the art of getting by, always keeping a reserve card on the human factor. And there is also a social discourse because some characters are poor, humble: Danny Cho, a Korean, is an unfortunate real estate contractor who would like to help his family, lives with a dumb brother, Paul, and has a cousin on his heels who better lose him in addition to two scumbag gangsters.
It is he who is involved in the near-miss car accident who consumes everything with his finger, but makes him swear eternal revenge towards (he will find out later) a rich Chinese woman who has a business in a plant shop that she is selling for an enormous sum, has a pseudo Japanese artist husband and a little girl, plus a mother-in-law who can’t stand her. But in the story, very intricate also on the family level because it follows an internal emotional and sexual history and parallel to the economic one, anything goes. The lives of the characters always fit together according to an unfortunate fate, the Gods of Chance play against, causing accidents, fires, mystical and banking crises, trips to Las Vegas like the Hangover, prisons, thefts, everything and more with the police than always arrives late.
When, in the ninth episode, it would seem all dramatically resolved, after a family has fallen apart over nothing, the tenth episode is different, almost shocking because it uses other styles, it becomes almost metaphysical, definitely desperate, but we can’t reveal more: there is the loss of the path and loss of consciousness, plus another fight this time real. An hallucinatory state that becomes the final figure of a curious film, very well acted by a very fierce crew, and of a series that will perhaps have an encore.
May 10, 2023 (change May 10, 2023 | 08:10)
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