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01-07-2010, 11:32 PM
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Time aka Shi gan
Running time: 97 minutes
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Starring: Jung-woo Ha
IMDB rating: 7.3
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497986/
I like to start a film at the same time I begin a meal. Not sure why, but that's my favoured routine, which I realised was a bad idea in this instance when the film opened with footage from plastic surgery operations, meaning that I was sat there watching people being sliced open as I tucked into my lunch. Yum.
This is a story of a woman who, feeling that her boyfriend has grown bored of her, decides to get plastic surgery so that she looks like a completely different person. Not surprisingly, this doesn't turn out as well as she'd hoped.
The film begins with Ji-Woo meeting his girlfriend for lunch, where she starts talking about how he seems to be getting bored with her and how she thinks he doesn't like her as much as he used to. After someone crashes into his parked car outside, he goes to sort out the insurance details with them, and him and the woman from the other car exchange contact info for insurance purposes. His girlfriend is unhappy about this, and starts to shout at him, then approaches the woman and calls her a slut, causing a big scene.
Later on, they're in bed together and his girlfriend is still insecure about his feelings and attraction to her after the two years they've been together. As they lay there, she tells him to imagine that it's the girl from the café touching him, and then they start to have sex. Afterwards, she asks if he was thinking of the girl from earlier, and when he says that he was she ends up biting his lip hard, then covering her face with the bed sheet and crying(women, eh?)
When he goes to her apartment the next day, no one is there. He goes to the guy who runs the place and is told that she's moved out. He approaches her friend, who has no idea where she is. He tries to carry on with his life, but isn't able to move on. He meets one woman, but as they are about to have sex, someone throws a rock through the bedroom window. Another changes her mind about him for unknown reasons. Then he finally meets someone and they begin a relationship.
I didn't know too much about the director, other than that he'd made several highly-regarded films and had a reputation for sometimes including extreme scenes and not much dialogue. Perhaps this was a change of pace for him, as (aside from the surgery video) here's nothing graphic here, and there's no less talking in this film than the average movie.
One of the key locations is a sculpture park, which has some cool statues such as a man wanking, a man having his dick bitten (or sucked) by a dog, and a couple having sex. This made for a visually interesting setting for some of the films, as can be seen on the film poster above.
One of the films key theme is the nature of identity and how we view ourselves and others in the modern world, how we change with time and how connected or disconnected we are with the person we used to be.
I liked this. An unusual story with some depth to it + an interesting character who doesn't seem to be the sanest of individuals = my kind of film.
7.25/10
Time aka Shi gan
Running time: 97 minutes
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Starring: Jung-woo Ha
IMDB rating: 7.3
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497986/
I like to start a film at the same time I begin a meal. Not sure why, but that's my favoured routine, which I realised was a bad idea in this instance when the film opened with footage from plastic surgery operations, meaning that I was sat there watching people being sliced open as I tucked into my lunch. Yum.
This is a story of a woman who, feeling that her boyfriend has grown bored of her, decides to get plastic surgery so that she looks like a completely different person. Not surprisingly, this doesn't turn out as well as she'd hoped.
The film begins with Ji-Woo meeting his girlfriend for lunch, where she starts talking about how he seems to be getting bored with her and how she thinks he doesn't like her as much as he used to. After someone crashes into his parked car outside, he goes to sort out the insurance details with them, and him and the woman from the other car exchange contact info for insurance purposes. His girlfriend is unhappy about this, and starts to shout at him, then approaches the woman and calls her a slut, causing a big scene.
Later on, they're in bed together and his girlfriend is still insecure about his feelings and attraction to her after the two years they've been together. As they lay there, she tells him to imagine that it's the girl from the café touching him, and then they start to have sex. Afterwards, she asks if he was thinking of the girl from earlier, and when he says that he was she ends up biting his lip hard, then covering her face with the bed sheet and crying(women, eh?)
When he goes to her apartment the next day, no one is there. He goes to the guy who runs the place and is told that she's moved out. He approaches her friend, who has no idea where she is. He tries to carry on with his life, but isn't able to move on. He meets one woman, but as they are about to have sex, someone throws a rock through the bedroom window. Another changes her mind about him for unknown reasons. Then he finally meets someone and they begin a relationship.
I didn't know too much about the director, other than that he'd made several highly-regarded films and had a reputation for sometimes including extreme scenes and not much dialogue. Perhaps this was a change of pace for him, as (aside from the surgery video) here's nothing graphic here, and there's no less talking in this film than the average movie.
One of the key locations is a sculpture park, which has some cool statues such as a man wanking, a man having his dick bitten (or sucked) by a dog, and a couple having sex. This made for a visually interesting setting for some of the films, as can be seen on the film poster above.
One of the films key theme is the nature of identity and how we view ourselves and others in the modern world, how we change with time and how connected or disconnected we are with the person we used to be.
I liked this. An unusual story with some depth to it + an interesting character who doesn't seem to be the sanest of individuals = my kind of film.
7.25/10