Three women, with the same love story,or perhaps one woman with three different love stories LA-A girl in her 20s, tries to find her way out of the city, by chance meets a police officer, and a fatalistic love story develops. Las Vegas-A woman in her 30s with dreams of being a fashion designer meets an artist. They are two lost souls, both leading lonely lives in the shadow of a dazzling city. Alaska-A woman in her 40s arrives in Alaska. Her dreams have faded, and she has come to fulfill a lifelong wish to see the aurora. She sees lights in the sky, and disappears into the darkness…
Cinematography
Three cities as characters — LA haze, Vegas neon, Alaska void
Writing
Ambiguous structure rewards multiple interpretations
Director
Kim Jeong-jung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kim Jeong-jung's obscure 2007 indie predates the 'multiverse' trend by 15 years, using geographic displacement rather than sci-fi to explore fractured identity.
The casting of Korean-American actors across all three segments suggests diasporic alienation as the unifying thread — each city represents a different mode of not-belonging.
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