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Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the fi...( read more 
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MCT:August 12, 2008
It's difficult to recommend Ki-duk Kim's films. His movies are never complacent, but even the most passionate examples can be dull. Address Unknown is one such film, an explosive concept made dull by a director still learning his craft and working out the kinks. Fans of the director will still want to check it out, but this one is not necessary viewing.
The film also suffers from some truly terrible performances by the actors playing American soldiers. The American soldier has an important place in the plot, but the actor's performance is so cartoonish that it's distracting every time he's on screen. This portrayal may be the way that Koreans see the American soldiers stationed there, but it still doesn't line up with the rest of the film.
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MCT:May 20, 2008This one is probably for Kim Ki-Duk completists only. It is a remarkable film in its relentless presentation of pain. Every single scene in this 2 hour film involves pain, emotional or physical.
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MCT:February 18, 2008I'm a fan of Kim Ki Duk's films - I even liked The Isle. This one though - was hilarious. Some of it was so absurd, I couldn't contain my laughter. This one had sat on my shelf for years before finally giving it a spin tonight after watching Time.
Fuck it - there's going to be spoilers here... you don't have to read any further if you want to be surprised...
The film starts off with some animal abuse - there's a lot of it throughout the film and that's probably what polarizes people so much on this movie. I've come to expect this sort of thing from Kim Ki Duk having seen his other films... the thing people don't realise is that there's much more human abuse in his films than animal abuse and yet some people react more to the animal abuse. In any case - if you don't think you could handle watching dogs strung up and beaten to death or a puppy getting slapped in the face, then just stay away. The rest of it isn't really so bad.
As for absurd - I can't really list it all, but for example - a girl is blinded in one eye by a zip gun as a kid by her brother - it appears as a glazed eye. She is ashamed, so she agrees to let this American soldier bang her and feed her drugs if he takes her to get it fixed. They do some sort of 'surgery' on it which looked like it involved a Sharpie - the next day, she can see perfectly. Then later, she stabs her eye again to keep the solider from tattooing his name on her tit and the result is the same glazed contact lens.
I don't know - it's just a bizarre film with some really impossible behavior - especially with the American "actors" which were obviously not real actors. The only American actor that did a decent job was the boyfriend - the only problem was his character was completely retarded... abusive and insane one minute, crying for his mommy the next. It was so odd... perhaps that's how Americans are seen because we are quicker to cry than Korean men.
Anyway - this film was somewhat confusing... I think this half-breed killed his stepdad and then cut his mom's tattoo off her tit and then drove his bike off a hill and froze to death/drowned in a frozen wetland. Then his mom dug him up and ate him. Most of the characters plotlines dead ended or were left open and unanswered.
Your best guess is that everyone ended up miserable or dead... and you're probably right. Really, this film hasn't got much of a point. It's interesting, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's good. People seem to either love it or hate it. I'm somewhere in the middle. It felt like 4 hours of movie, but it was just under 2. In the end, I felt like going "what the hell did I just watch?" and I watch all of the most odd films I can get my hands on. This one was just... I don't know. I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it, but I also don't feel like I got anything out of it. -
MCT:January 11, 2008
Après réflexion, ce film se hisse à égalité avec 3-Iron en deuxième position quant à mon film préféré du réalisateur coréen Kim Ki-Duk. Le seul problème c'est que les comparaisons sont très difficile puisque l'on retrouve deux types de films chez Kim : Ses films pré-Spring,Summer,Fall,Winter and...Spring et ses films post-Spring,Summer,Fall,Winter and...Spring... Euhm euhmm... Address Unknown, contrairement aux trois autres films de Kim que j'ai eu le privilège de voir, s'inscrit dans la première période et laissez-moi vous dire que c'est tout un style de film. Très loin de ce à quoi il m'avait tant habitué (histoires d'amour avec personnages muets...), Address Unknown raconte principalement l'histoire unique de trois personnes complètement différentes qui verront leurs vies s'entremêler dans des relations d'amour, de haine et d'espoir. Bref, Address Unknown est un incontournable pour bien comprendre à quel point Ki-Duk Kim est un talentueux réalisateur.
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MCT:December 30, 2007Le moins bon que j'ai vu. Faisant partie de ce qu'on appel plus communément le "pré" Ki-Duk Kim. (^^) C'est le premier de cette partie de ses oeuvres que je visualisait et franchement quelle manière de voir la vie déprimante. Personne n'a réussit à survivre. Tous meurt d'une manière ou d'une autre. Sensible s'abstenir.
Par contre, la réalisation de Ki-Duk Kim est, encore une fois, merveilleuse malgré tout. Film daté 2001, au centre du film: les chiens. La seule chose qui me vient à l'esprit après l'écoute c'est une phrase de Marcel Dubé dans Un simple soldat: " Naître comme un chien, vivre comme un chien et mourir comme un chien. La vie est une chienne." (quelque chose du genre). -
MCT:December 5, 2007English actors make this movie unintentionally hilarious, but it's one of the more bleak films Kim Di Kuk has made.
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MCT:November 28, 2007
This is a story of an angry young man borned as a mixed Black-Korean dispised by the entire society he lived in. He lived in an abandoned school bus with his mother who wrote letters daily to her American lover; who always got her letters returned and stamped with "address unknown" from the US. He worked with a violent ex-militant step-father who brutally killed dogs for money. He tried not to learn to hate but still dispised himself and his mother's hopeless insanity of writing letters every single day. The young man later helped an often-bullied friend, also an outcast, who wished to go abroad and study English, to fulfill his long American dream. His friend then fell in love with a next-door girl who lost an eye but also wished to go to America. Later, she betrayed her love to be with a drug-abused American G.I., who's frustrated by this meaningless cold-war, so she could get her eye fixed. All four youngsters met tragic endings. This is a reflection of reality of all the scars that fills in a post-war and a divided country. Through the fictional but very possible reality of hatred and regrets, the movie is not to teach us to hate but to learn to stop hating before the chain and result of hate begins .
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MCT:August 8, 2007
Ki-Duk Kim a bel et bien essayé de se lancer sur les traces de Park, qui venait tout juste alors de réaliser JSA, mais on réalise vite qu'il faut apprendre à se détacher de la comparaison si on veut apprécier Address Unknown puisque la qualité des oeuvres se veut vraiment différente.
Le problème d'Address Unknown, c'est que le scénario est atrocement décousu. En quelques sortes, ça pourrait peut-être même devenir un avantage, puisque l'histoire n'en est que plus douloureuse à suivre. Toutefois, certains éléments restent incompris dans ma tête et je doute que Ki-Duk Kim ait accordé l'importance nécessaire à chaque petite histoire, quitte à ce qu'il dusse rallonger son film d'une demi-heure.
Toutefois, je dois avouer que je m'étais habitué au Ki-Duk Kim sentimental axé sur l'essence de la nature et que de le voir orienté dans d'autres directions me fend un peu le coeur. C'est tout de même agréable de voir les compétences diverses des réalisateurs, mais ça gâche un peu ma vision de Ki-Duk Kim de le voir réaliser une oeuvre que je qualifierais d'un peu vantarde.
Vivement que Mate s'achète d'autres classiques de Ki-Duk Kim, parce que j'ai encore la flèche de The Bow plantée dans une partie sensible de mon coeur. -
MCT:July 29, 2007
Like the majority of Kim Ki-Duk's films, this is hard going at times, but there are glimmers of genius.
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MCT:June 21, 2007
This film is immediately compelling and the masterful creation is clearly evident. This is probably my favorite Ki-duk Kim film I've seen thus far. It has the feel to perhaps place it among some of the best films in cinema, certainly in terms of vibe it captures and how extraordinarily well it does this.
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MCT:March 8, 2007
typical kim ki duk cast and "outsider" themed story. the bi-racial identity conflict [which looked extremely fake] and the one eyed girl were memorable elements. the scene where the dog catcher met his demise epitomizes kkd's knack for irony.
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