"Kim Ki-duk’s unusual point of view on ordinary life is carried to yet another extreme in his eleventh film, 3-Iron, a story of freedom found within the dull, domestic prisons erected by power, money and social convention and of a love that dispels the horror vacui of emotional emptiness."
- Giovanna Fulvi
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I don't get it, did you even see the film?
shareIndependent director Kim Ki-Duk is part of the most successful period the nation's film industry has ever known, the so-called Korean Wave that has swept overseas and led more than 100 Japanese fans to fly into the southern port city just to catch a glimpse of heartthrob Lee and screen siren Kim.
At appearances across the city, a host of South Korean stars were greeted by a Beatles-like frenzy of screaming women, from girls to middle-aged housewives. Yet director Kim, who had one of the standout successes of the Pusan International Film Festival in Busan with The Bow, a beautifully filmed and characteristically abstract look at love, life and death, cringes at the thought of such popularity.
He doesn't even want many people to watch his films. If a lot of people watched my movie I don't think I would have a lot of interest in it either, the 45-year-old arthouse darling told a small gathering of foreign press at the plush Paradise Hotel. I wish my movies could be like a virus -- it's not seen but it's all over the place.
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Identity is the main theme.
Now, rewatch the film and figure it out. The intrinsic payoff is worth it.