The sad spectacle of a sick mind

Rating: 5/10 (12 April 2020)

Why is everyone ignoring the most obvious this film is strange to most people? Why do we all feel ill at ease with this foreign movie? Well exactly because of that. Because it is a foreign movie made in a cultural mindset that is alien to most of the world. It is a Korean movie made by a Korean director for a Korean public. As as such, much is lost in translation. incest between brother and sister, between a father and his daughter are the subject and are not only consumed on screen they are in a way condoned by the director who views them as to love stories that deserve to be let to blossom. The plot holes and inconsistencies that defy common sense are too many to even bother listing and my in themselves be enough to make the movie risible but you also have to add to them the numerous sadistic as well as masochistic scenes that leave you with a sense general malaise. Not a single character in this movie has an interesting arc or motivations that make sense and the revenge plot quickly appears to be a weak pretext. Although well photographed and scored, this movie is disgusting and evil at its core and one feels dirty after watching it. Don't let anyone fool you with a supposedly artistic nihilist approach. This movie is simple the brain child of a disturbed man with access to a camera and unlike true artists there is nothing poetic about his vision, only the sad twisted spectacle of a disturbed mind.