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dazzling-niam
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Hwal (2005)
"The same procedure as every year, James..."
4 August 2006 - 11 out of 32 users found this review helpful.
An elderly fisherman lives with a young girl, he wants to marry on her 17th birthday. But shortly before that day the girl falls in love with some student and that ultimately leads to problems in the relationship between her and the old fisherman.
In beautiful pictures the movie reflects on the dialectics of refuge and prison, tenderness and sadism, love and violence. The 12th Kim Ki-duk-picture comes up with the same metaphors and symbolisms his older films were filled with, which (at least for me, as I've seen all of Ki-duk's works)leads to a déjà-vu-like experience and therefore to slight boredom.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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