SYNOPSIS:
Seh-hee and Ji-woo (Ha Jung Woo - The Unforgiven) have been
together for years, but their relationship is slowly dying
down, their love changing into a mere mildly pleasing familiarity.
To solve her problems, Seh-hee makes a drastic decision: change
her facial appearances completely through plastic surgery
and start a new life. Weeks later, Ji-woo meets a strange
waitress at a cafe. She calls herself See-hee (Sung Hyun Ah
- Cello) and, even though he's never seen her before, something
feels strangely familiar...
MOVIE
REVIEW
Time
has to be the least misogynistic movie from Kim Ki-Duk in
recent memory, and this has a lot to do with the director
turning his lens to the misanthropic instead. What self-loathing
and insecurity drives a woman to change her face completely
and leave a stylish editor with nice small eyes?
Therein
begins a hide-and-seek story about a lonely man who kisses
every girl he meets because he is “only human”.
The insecure lady resurfaces only to realize that she is insecure
still. In Time, the characters do not change with time. Reality
is similarly detached, where the protagonists’ hangout
cafe serves as a place without memories. Man and woman travel
to a little paradise of Freudian sculptures over and over
again only to re-enact the same courtship rituals. The conscious
and the instinctual: what gives?
Kudos
to the cover art really, for while asking these thematic questions,
Kim withdraws into one of his masturbation moods where interesting
storylines are boiled down and wrung of flavour; clinically
molded into disembodied visual essays that only serve to stroke
his ego.
SPECIAL FEATURES :
No special features.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
Nice and clean visual transfer with a clear color palette.
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by Lim Mun Pong
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