‘A Killer Paradox’ review: retribution rules in this anti-hero tale
nme.comA Killer Paradox’s Lee Tang (played by Choi Woo-shik) is an average university student. He spends his free time watching YouTube travel vlogs, dreaming of leaving his boring hometown and fantasising about heading off on a working holiday.
He’s unmotivated in class and is unperturbed at the idea of missing his exams – he can always retake them in the summer. Outside of class, he works in a convenience store, where he’s nagged over his punctuality by co-workers and, on the night shift, has to deal with drunk customers ordering him about.One night, after cleaning up after a drunk old man and his friend, the student heads home and finds the intoxicated shopper passed out on the side of a backstreet.
The next block over, he encounters the man’s companion, who is initially nonplussed by Tang’s urges to help his mate, but soon becomes annoyed and aggressive.
Rather than leave him to his ranting, Tang grabs the hammer he’s borrowed from the convenience store from his bag and commits a very out-of-character murder.Back home, he’s wracked with guilt and considers turning himself in and even taking his own life.
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