‘Gook” opens with an arresting black-and-white image: an 11-year-old girl dancing with abandon in slow motion in front of a fiery blaze. It looks ominous — a Los Angeles house on fire with no one else around — but the girl delights in the scene, moving as wildly as the flames.
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