The 2002 World Cup Games and a serial murder... This unlikely pair gets entangled in Park Chong-Won′s brand new entry. Murders are committed in seven rooms during the 2-hour quarterfinal match between Korea and Japan. However, the occupants at this villa aren′t characters from a future world but are real, everyday people. They are: a young man who came to the villa to find the weapon he lost in an internet game; a teenager with the knack for having sex with someone her father′s age; delinquent high school kids making a buck by capturing carnal images on their candid camera; a couple engaged in an illicit affair; a fund manager slowly turning evil with his involvement in murders; and a sales lady who pours dirt into a water reservoir to sell her water purifier ... These are everyday people from the pages of daily news, and Paradise Villa depicts the revealing process of their lunatic and violent instincts. Perhaps the World Cup Games that are held every four years are just an elegant form of the same mass lunacy and violence. Park is known for his uncanny portrayal of concepts dealing with the essence of power and the duality of mankind, yet he attempts a brand new start by capturing images of our daily lives and seeking explanations afterwards. Such method brings out the intrigue from Paradise Villa. (Han Sang-Jun)