Beautiful
It’s a conspiracy! The long dresses, her actually beautiful looks despite all “tried” crazy looking uglification… the wonderful acting by the main character so incredibly focused on her faces – This whole movie just looks, feels and smells so incredibly japanese?
I am not really sure what this portrait of men as monsters is supposed to do, most of all it makes me want to hate stalkers. But even without having all that much of a meaning, the making of the film itself is right up my alley. I like its style a lot, even the fact that all those men who want to rape the main actress are awfully attractive themselves. The film sounds crazy, in fact, it is very intense and doesn’t seem to have a single sane person in its scarily realistic looking, yet stylized world. (See the coffee pot, which I am totally in love with!)
I knew about the end, and the whole film was not suspenseful in a traditional way, because I knew what was happening. Yet I think that Eun-Young’s actress wonderfully played the terrorized girl (bearing a lot of similarity to the main character in Bin-Jip) and the story was gripping nevertheless.
I find it sad that such an amazingly well-made film has only grossed a total of about $9000, which probably didn’t even cover a single actor’s work. It feels like the internet has more reviews about the film than people who have seen it. However, as weird as it may sound now, I don’t think I would recommend the movie. No matter how much I like its style and directing, there is a certain pointlessness to the film that makes me vary of ever wanting to watch it again.
I didn’t know the end, so I was quite surprised and thus ended up liking the film. Apart from that I found the directing too artificial to make it even to Kim Ki-Duk’s own films.
Ahahaha, oh my god, the scene, in which the policemen tell her she’s responsible herself for being raped! So cynical!