Sunday, February 03, 2008

TIME

Watched the first 30 minutes of the Korean film "TIME" directed by Kim Ki-Duk.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zQE-CSzodg
Synopsis of the movie: http://www.seoulselection.com/screening_dvd_view.html?pid=1200
Kim Ki-Duk's brief profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-Duk

It's superb.

How the female character is paranoid of the whole relationship, how her emotional insecurity leads to paranoid behaviour and drastic measure to go for a plastic surgery.

How the devil of love can cause such harm to couples.

How events can twist when the woman loves her bf more than her bf loves her and decides to take drastic measure to leave him before he leaves her.

It's all been clearly presented.

Quite often, in a scary way.

It maybe only that 30 minutes after the show starts, but it's good enough for me to stick my butt on the sofa.

The movie evokes a very strong theme of human insecurity and loneliness. To me, it's a form of mockery of human being defeated heavily by own's insecurity and loneliness. Just within that first 30 mins, the quote "We're just humans." has repeated twice.

The 7 sins, I believe?

But definitely, insecurity drives people taking drastic measures to secure themselves emotionally and mentally. And loneliness lures people trying to find means and ways to fill up that hole. It may not be intentional, but it's the subsconsiousness which controls the thoughts and behaviours of human.

Ha..and this shows how fragile human can be.

Maybe I prefer hearing "We're just humans." as a form of excusable reason.

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