Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Early thoughts on Pansu
I absolutely loved this story. Between the sex-crazed, possessed Korean woman, the duo of pot smoking Exorcist experts, and the Korean restaurant owner who believes everything can be solved with food, I had no clue what to expect next. It starts off fast and never lets up. One question I had was why did the peach schnapps catch the demon? I thought this had to do with the discussion going on under the Supernatural post where we talked about how dragons haven't changed much over the years because possession hasn't changed much over the years either. From green vomit to body contortions and different voices there really haven't been any changes in how people are possessed. I think part of it is that possession is more of a real life thing than dragons, at least according to most people.
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I haven't looked it up, but maybe there's something about peach in the Korean mythology/demonology--the husband thinks that it should be made of peach wood but that's the best he can do. Maybe there really is an existing mythology about that--otherwise I don't know why the author would randomly choose that, except it was funny.
I found parts of Pansu oddly comical. Like as I read it I didn't know if I was supposed to be scared or laugh, and really I decided that I mostly wanted to laugh. As serious as the whole thing should've been, the TV guys are just hysterically calm and nonchalant. It was like the whole story was comic relief in the midst of our readings for this week.
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