The lamb in “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” introduced in this movie is an animal fruit born in a plant stem similar to the umbilical cord. If the stem is cut, the lamb dies. This creature lives as part of a plant and of an animal. This movie poses a question about human life that can’t be answered decisively. Exconvicts are brought onto an island due to a government project. Some of them worry if their pasts will be revealed, while others reveal their criminal records freely. An old man from the Yakuza asks a young Yakuza to keep his hands clean. Some of them terrify themselves for what they did, while others stay true to their desires. We try to identify who they are, but there’s no definite answer. As the legend of the island says, between the two sacrifices offered to Nororo monster, only one can survive. Or as the story says, the wolf that has eaten up the vegetable lamb knows the taste, we never know what the taste of life is like. The movie shows we can’t discern good from evil easily. (CHAI Heesuk)