Time

"Time" cements Kim Ki-Duk's position as one of Korea's most interesting directors...
TIME (aka. Shi gan) is the 2006 offering of acclaimed Korean director Kim Ki-Duk (the Bow, The Isle, Spring Summer Fall..., 3-IRON). Kim's style of film-making usually involves limited dialogue, allowing silence to express the screenplay by way of unspoken emotional expression. Much of his films involve marginalized worlds or a way of life; he takes his audiences to that world, the main goal is to make us understand how it operates and see certain rules that may apply. In his film; "Time", he tackles the desire for youth and beauty, also the fears of love.

A young and attractive woman named Seh-hee (Ji Yeon Park) is worried that her boyfriend, Ji-woo (Ha Jeong-woo) is growing tired of her. She occasionally observes him looking at other beautiful women. She-hee is a jealous type and always insists that she doesn't excite him anymore during lovemaking. She-hee even goes as far as suggesting that he imagine her as someone else while making love. Seh-hee, takes drastic...

A Korean Culture Capsule.
Once again, Kim Ki Duk has produced another excellent movie showing the more sensitive nature of his korean culture, up close and personal. The photography is top quality and the images of surgery donot linger too long for affect but give just the right atmosphere of desperation to the story. Kim's treatment of love is unique in that he shows love is with us all the time but it can take many hardships to see it. Kim also shows that, like Deity, love has no limits known by man except for the limits man places on it which can never last. A great movie. Buy it!

Brilliant psychological film
This is a brilliant treatment of human insecurity and relationships, of loneliness and superficiality. Tension throughout, well paced, and leaving you with questions and dimensions, but no answers. Like his previous films, it will stay in your head, and you can see it several times over.

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