Persona: Sulli

Choi Jinri was a child actress who came to prominence as a member of the k pop band f(x) where she took the stage name Sulli. She left the group in 2015 and pursued acting and a career as a single artist but tragically took her own life in 2019. Persona Sulli is in two parts, the first is a short film which is a project she was working on at the time of her death and the second part is an in depth and candid interview which was also filmed in 2019. It is heartbreaking to watch as you can clearly see what a fragile soul she was and how the online bullying may not have been a direct cause for her decision it may well have contributed. The world would be a better place if she was still in it.

It can feel at times a bit ghoulish and other times very sad to watch such an intimate portrait of a recent suicide victim, but this multi-talented woman has important things to tell us, and she expresses herself with profound elegance.

There are 2 episodes of Persona here. They consist of the first of what would have been five short art movies, followed by a feature-length documentary based on interviews with Choi Jin Ri, who has left us a great legacy here.

The short is a kind of surreal fantasy, full of grotesque humour. The documentary is one of the most moving pieces I've watched in a long time.