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Three... Extremes

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Three... Extremes	comment	Three... Extremes is an Anthology Film directed by three Asian filmmakers from different countries; Fruit Chan (Hong Kong), Park Chan-wook (South Korea) and Takashi Miike (Japan).It was predated by the earlier anthology Three; the film's international release came after this one and was thus called 3 Extremes II. The three short films are: "Dumplings": An aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient. Directed by Fruit Chan. "Cut": A successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife's fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes. Directed by Park Chan-wook. "Box": A soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected. Directed by Takashi Miike."Dumplings" would later receive a feature-length adaptation in 2004 under the same title.
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Three... Extremes / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: The Extra cuts off several the fingers of the Director's wife.
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Three... Extremes / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Three... Extremes / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The dumplings are made from aborted fetuses.
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Three... Extremes / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Three... Extremes / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: A lot of it throughout the short, reaching its culmination in an absurd dance scene of the Extra that comes out of nowhere, all in the wake of a situation where the lives of several people are at stake.
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Three... Extremes / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Three... Extremes / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: The entire segment revolves around this. The Director knows he has to act fast to stop the game, as we can only imagine what the Extra intends for his wife after she runs out of fingers.
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Three... Extremes / int_3a6cebbd	type	Circus Brat
Three... Extremes / int_3a6cebbd	comment	Circus Brat - The sisters grew up working at the circus.
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Three... Extremes / int_48da1453	type	Gender Reveal
Three... Extremes / int_48da1453	comment	Gender Reveal: As it turns out, the young girl set up as part of the game is actually a boy in a wig and not only that, but he's the Extra's own son.
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Three... Extremes / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Three... Extremes / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Mei may be a morally bankrupt Back-Alley Doctor who sells aborted fetuses as food and performs fatal abortions without her client's full knowledge, but she's a very energetic and smooth-talking saleswoman who relates to her clients. She even sings for you!
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Three... Extremes / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
Three... Extremes / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: Mei performs black market abortions.
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Three... Extremes / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Three... Extremes / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: The Director suffers this over the course of the segment, and by the end of it, confuses the Extra's son and his wife with one another, leading to him strangling his own wife instead. Maybe.
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Three... Extremes / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Three... Extremes / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Except for the beginning, the whole short takes place in one room and real-time.
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Three... Extremes / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Three... Extremes / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Black Comedy, disturbing violence, Mood Whiplashes, and surreal imagery with amazing photography all are tropes heavily used in several other films by the same director.
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Three... Extremes / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Three... Extremes / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The child the director is forced to kill is actually the son of the Extra who couldn't bring himself to go through with it himself after killing his wife.
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Three... Extremes / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Three... Extremes / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Director gives one to both the Extra and to the Director's own wife.
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Three... Extremes / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Three... Extremes / int_9053903	comment	She later has another emotional breakdown in the bathtub, crying over what she has become after seeing her young and innocent self on tv. Again, she goes back for more.
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Three... Extremes / int_9141fba3	type	Fountain of Youth
Three... Extremes / int_9141fba3	comment	Fountain of Youth: Eating the dumplings helps one retain a youthful appearance. Mei looks thirty, but is in fact sixty-four years old.
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Three... Extremes / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Three... Extremes / int_930e1bd4	comment	Absurdly High-Stakes Game: The Extra threatens the Director's wife with the loss of a finger for every five minutes he doesn't strangle a young girl he has prepared for him.
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Three... Extremes / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Three... Extremes / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Mrs. Li runs away in shock and horror and nearly vomits after witnessing the reality of the dumplings first hand. She returns for more later though.. She later has another emotional breakdown in the bathtub, crying over what she has become after seeing her young and innocent self on tv. Again, she goes back for more.
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Three... Extremes / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Three... Extremes / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The film goes from horror to absurd comedy.
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Three... Extremes / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Three... Extremes / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Mei is an Affably Evil version of this. Retaining her youthful energy and charm while doing heinous deeds.
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Three... Extremes / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Three... Extremes / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The Director is told to strangle a child to save his wife. In the end, the now-insane Director ends up strangling his wife, thinking that he is strangling the child to save her.
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Three... Extremes / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Three... Extremes / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: We see a vampire film by the Director, foreshadowing one of Park's later films Thirst (2009).
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Three... Extremes / int_c3ae786a	type	Recut
Three... Extremes / int_c3ae786a	comment	Recut: The extended cut has additional subplots and a different ending not present in the original short. Anything regarding Mrs. Li's pregnancy is removed in the extended cut.
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Three... Extremes / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Three... Extremes / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: The Extra's whole motive of going after the Director and his wife is because he is rich, handsome, and nice while the extra himself is poor and ugly (in his head at least), and the Extra feels it's not fair because of how in the movies it's the other way around.
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Three... Extremes / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: All four major characters in this feature go unnamed.
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Three... Extremes / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Three... Extremes / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Extra is killed by the Director's wife after he trips on the ring that was on one of the fingers he cut off, and gets trapped into the wire trap he put the wife into.
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Three... Extremes / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Three... Extremes / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Subverted with the Director and his wife. They are cheating on each other and the Director gives his wife a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech. However, the Director still continues to try and save his wife, to the point to where he starts to seriously attempt murder on the child in order to save her.
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Three... Extremes / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Three... Extremes / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The film starts with one, the first cut being when the title ''Cut'' is shown.
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Three... Extremes / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
Three... Extremes / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: Kate's mother murders (or at least tries to murder) her husband out of revenge for getting Kate pregnant which also lead to Kates death
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