Fantastic Parasuicides (2007)

Three emerging Korean filmmakers pool their talents to create this omnibus film divided into three chapters and exploring the topic of suicide from three unique perspectives. Director Park Soo-Young gets things off to a start with a story entitled "Hanging Tough" and focusing the mental malaise experienced by a young schoolgirl who has overslept for her exams. Convinced that the misstep will forever remain with her, the inconsolable student takes a deadly leap from the school rooftop. Upon landing on terra firma unharmed, she discovers that she's not alone in her misery. The second film, directed by Cho Chang-Ho and entitled "Fly Away, Chicken!" follows a suicidal policeman as he makes his way to the beach with his uniform and gun. Upon witnessing the sexual assault of a young woman by three men, the nihilistic lawman represses his instinct to intervene. The following day, however, he comes face to face with the three criminals and realizes that he has three bullets to spare. The trilogy winds to a close with director Kim Sung-Ho's short "Happy Birthday." A pensioner preparing to celebrate his seventieth birthday realizes that he has no one to share the special moment with, and decides to throw himself in front of a speeding train rather than becoming a secluded septuagenarian. Just as he is preparing to take that fateful step onto the tracks, however, he spies another man fleeing from gangsters, clutching a bag, and about to make take that same leap into oblivion. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi