Mago (aka Naked Paradise) is a Korean film dealing with the rape of
the earth through heavy-handed symbolism. It’s pure exploitation
depicting hundreds of naked men and women and the slaughter and
butchering of many animals.
With a truly sickening opening scene of a street full of frogs being
trampled underfoot and run over by vehicles, it gains your attention but
also blows its own credibity (as a serious piece of art with a positive
ecological message) by way of its hypocrisy. A gruesome slaughterhouse
scene had one disturbing moment as you witness a dog splattered with
blood having a rope put around its neck.(the film depicts rape scenes
and over 800 actors and actresses nude–no crotch though)and Lots of
shots of pollution and dying animals and also, (rather disturbing) real
footage of real animals being slaughtered.
Long ago when the Earth first born, on a happy land Mago, Han-Woong, an
Adam, mated with the Mother of Earth, Mago, the woman transformed from
the 12 spirits, and Men were born. A day came when someone else ate the
forbidden fruit filled Men with green and being controlled under
desires; Mago then gradually turned from a paradise into a desert. Not
only everyone was leaving, the greed of Men had also hurt the innocent
spirits and revenge was taken. Years later, the Han-Woong who had gone
through metempsychosis realizes from astrology and dreams that Mago was
his own Mother, and all the sufferings are originated from him...