This is a daring experiment and also a vastly repulsive film. Hard to believe that it was made by Kim, whom I like for his poetical films. Also the underlying theme, an exploration of the connection between lust and pain is far from what I like to see.
We don't need subtitles, as nobody is saying anything in this movie, yet it is action-packed. Man cheats wife, wife wants revenge and tries to castrate him. Husband can defend himself, so instead she castrates their only son and eats his willy. At this point 10 minutes of the film have gone - what more in there?
The mother leaves the house and roams around the city. The father also castrates himself. The former mistress of the father gets a crunch of the son, who, of course, cannot answer her flirting. When a street gang rapes that mistress, the son is sent in to rape her also and then he fakes an assault.
The father is looking for sexual satisfaction and finds a web site that explains that pain also can induce orgasm (the whole body is a genital). They practice that kind of self-content. The boy also gets a penis transplantation, but still isn't capable of intercourse. One day the bell rings and the mother returns. Now an incestuous relationship with the mother is about to begin, but the father first shoots his wife and then himself. The boy castrates himself again.
Take that! A rough world, a world without words. There may be heaps of hints to mythology who cares? It may also be equipped with a thick layer of Freudian junk, but I still don't care when the central message is that pain is lust. I just don't agree (and maybe this is why I have a problem with Haneke and especially The Pianist). And I am not interested in the subject of incest either.
However, in terms of story telling there is a lot of praise here. It's an action-packed movie without words, but with lots of grunts, moaning and screaming in agony in this bleak world.
A beautiful disgusting movie.
5/10
We don't need subtitles, as nobody is saying anything in this movie, yet it is action-packed. Man cheats wife, wife wants revenge and tries to castrate him. Husband can defend himself, so instead she castrates their only son and eats his willy. At this point 10 minutes of the film have gone - what more in there?
The mother leaves the house and roams around the city. The father also castrates himself. The former mistress of the father gets a crunch of the son, who, of course, cannot answer her flirting. When a street gang rapes that mistress, the son is sent in to rape her also and then he fakes an assault.
The father is looking for sexual satisfaction and finds a web site that explains that pain also can induce orgasm (the whole body is a genital). They practice that kind of self-content. The boy also gets a penis transplantation, but still isn't capable of intercourse. One day the bell rings and the mother returns. Now an incestuous relationship with the mother is about to begin, but the father first shoots his wife and then himself. The boy castrates himself again.
Take that! A rough world, a world without words. There may be heaps of hints to mythology who cares? It may also be equipped with a thick layer of Freudian junk, but I still don't care when the central message is that pain is lust. I just don't agree (and maybe this is why I have a problem with Haneke and especially The Pianist). And I am not interested in the subject of incest either.
However, in terms of story telling there is a lot of praise here. It's an action-packed movie without words, but with lots of grunts, moaning and screaming in agony in this bleak world.
A beautiful disgusting movie.
5/10
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