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Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is...( read more 
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MCT:August 5, 2008very Creeping film.....with the budget it was made it is good...
TWO SCENES ARE MUCH CREEPEER THAN SAW MOVIES... -
MCT:June 3, 2008Ki-duk kim has a thing for twisted love storys,and this one is no exception...wow...However it really does not come off that way. In fact it actually seams like one of his lighter films. A down on his luck guy with nothing to live for meets a quiet recluse in charge of a fishing lake. You even really like the main characters. The girl is done really well in a way that be easy to mess up or overdo. She doent speak(at all) but she is MORE then able to be heard or understood. Witch fits the film really well actually. Even in the silence, whole volumes are being said. Thats kinda the point of the story I think. Its not what you say ,but what you do/feel/show that matters really. This is a tragic love story though. One of our lovers has lost his faith in love. The other has not really felt it in so long shes kinda fuzzy on what it is anymore. In its own quiet way this film draws you in and makes you really feel for the characters. Be warned though, that is just the bait on a fisherman's hook here. Letting you eat the bait and really sink you teeth into this film. For when this film jerks, it jerks HARD. Leaving you writhing and gasping for air on the dock wondering WTF? just happened. Great film, but not for the sqeemish.
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MCT:May 17, 2008Beautifully disturbing film about the painful relationship between a mute girl and a man on the run. Although the film moves at a slow pace it kept me interested. I often find the films that have the least dialog can be the most intriguing.
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MCT:May 15, 2008This is a painful and gorgeous film. Not sad. Painful. And gorgeous. And painful. Be advised that there are a couple scenes in this film that rank up there as a couple of the most difficult scenes to endure in cinematic history. You don't actually see anything, but it's clear what's going on and it is essential to the meaning of this movie. You will squirm in your seat. Guaranteed. And if animals being harmed in the making of a film bothers you, and you consider fish and frogs animals, stay away.
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MCT:March 21, 2008
A creepy, gruesome, gorgeous, obsessive, violent, nasty relationship.
A harsh love story between two people beaten down by life and unable to express themselves except through pain. It hardly relies on just the shock value, which it has plenty of, but shows the acts commited as an ultimate expression of need.
Great cinematography and Ki-duk Kim's direction are the main reasons I enjoyed it. -
MCT:December 5, 2007The movie isn't bad, but the ending is all artsy and symbolic and... well, dumb. The rest is similar in feel to Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring, but a little more... twisted. Ultimately, it's pretty boring and not much happens, but like I said... it's not a bad movie. There just wasn't much reason to make it, in my opinion.
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MCT:July 28, 2007
Apart from the notorious self mutilation (fish hooks put where fish hooks were never meant to go) there isn't an awful lot to recommend about this movie. It's themes have been explored better elsewhere.
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MCT:July 24, 2007
Truely bizarre! But really quite beautiful in it's own way....I just never want to think of fishing hooks in 'that' way EVER AGAIN!
I'd reccommend...if you're not easily bored and you understand hidden meanings. -
MCT:June 9, 2007
I watched Kim Ki-Duk's The Coastguard about a year before watching The Isle. The latter disappointed me but not the former. What I like about The Isle is that the inner turmoil of the characters is brought out quite successfully. It's like a Wong Kar Wai film in that respect - it's not so much about the destination than it is about the feeling of the journey. However, the characters' lack of dialogue did seem a little forced and artificial. I think Ki-Duk wanted to portray a feeling that can't be described, but that doesn't mean you can't have dialogue that inadvertantly brings across those feelings in the viewer, without actually plainly saying what the feeling is. This film tries very hard, the 2nd part of the story is where it really hits the nail on the head. However to me it was just a good effort rather than a great film.
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MCT:April 29, 2007
this film was hard to follow as you don't know much of the characters... but you can still feel their misery and pain, which is a recurrent theme in ki-duk's movies. i prefer spring, summer... to this one, but i guess i should give it another try.
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MCT:April 5, 2007
My synopsis: sport fishing, prostitution, murder, love, jealousy, murder, sado-masochistic love and err... more murder.
Again this follows the Ki-Duk style of having minimal dialogue. Actually fairly artistic in the end. Worthwhile but not brilliant. -
MCT:March 21, 2007
entre dos desequilibrados se da una extraña historia de amor sin palabras, desgarradora (literalmente) en fin.. recomendable.. aunque no para todos. :P
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MCT:March 9, 2007A semi-horror film which proved too gory for me. A couple of scenes were visually powerful, but otherwise it was painfully out of focus and tiring to watch.
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MCT:February 25, 2007
Another very sick Korean movie, shot out-of-focus, and with very little dialogue about a group of people living on floats on a lake.
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MCT:December 9, 2006
Facinating film. Very well shot. This director loves telling stories with little dialogue. Watch all his films.
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MCT:October 14, 2006
One of my favourites! Contains some real sick stuff mixed with beautiful scenery, and the unique atmosphere that this film gives out keeps you hooked. A very underrated film indeed.
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MCT:September 12, 2006
This really disappointed me, I like Ki-duk Kim's other films, but I hated this one. A lot of people talk about the fish-hook scene but frankly after what they did to the animals (fish and bird especially) I could care less what the people pretended to do to themselves with fish hooks. I didn't watch the credits but I bet there wasn't anything about "no animals were harmed in the making of this film."
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MCT:September 1, 2006
Ki-duk Kim has emerged as a director to watch with his Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring as well as 3Iron which was at the Auckland film fest last year. This is the first of his movies i have had a chance to watch but based on this one i will probably check out the other two. I was pretty tired from watching it but it displays that trademark macabre humour that we have come to love from Asian cinema. This is a pretty disturbing one though so i wouldn't recommend it to everyone. It felt a bit slow but that could have been the fact i watched it at 3am in the morning.
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MCT:May 2, 2006
Slow, dream-like & well-acted, this is a Korean oddball about a floating fishing village, the people who pass through it and the love & jealousy that affect them all. Slow-going but worth seeing.
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