'The Isle' tells a tale of a beautiful woman who lives on an eerie remote lake selling food to fisherman by day and her body by night. When the woman becomes obsessed with a suicidal former police officer haunted by the murder of his unfaithful girlfriend what develops is a perversely intriguing love story... Visually arresting shocking visceral and original Kim Ki-duk's 'The Isle' is extreme Korean cinema at its very best!
Visually stunning "The Isle" is set on a tranquil and beautiful fishing lake dotted with colourful little floating huts. Set against this backdrop is the intense and haunting story of Hee-Jin the guardian of this fishing oasis. Hee-Jin has some issues and the balance between sanity and the dark and twisted reaches of her mind is a tight one, these issues also stretch to her being mute but is it self imposed? Running away from his life and a terrible mistake is Hyun-Shik, he hires a float but his own mind is not what it should be with suicidal thoughts running amok. There is a meeting of somewhat crazed minds amongst the emotionally charged bitter events that slowly unwind, sometimes brutal but then twisted with a perverse sense of humour. We watch almost voyeuristically as the two contrasts of visual beauty and psychosis of the mind entwines, delivering an excellent viewing experience and one that won"t be forgotten quickly. This is an extremely good film which can be watched many times and still leave you with something different after each viewing. Tremendously acted so that you feel the minds of the two leading characters as they struggle between madness with what you feel is a longing for peace. Slow moving but perfectly in tune with it"s self and as half the main characters are mute the subtitles are few and far between, so please don"t let subtitles put you off this treat of a film.
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Disturbing Korean psychological horror. By a remote South Korean lake, Hee-jin (Seoh Jung), an enigmatic and mysterious young woman, runs a bait shop for the fishermen who moor their rafts there. At night she prostitutes herself to the fishermen, but when she meets lonely and suicidal Hyun-shik (Kim Yu-seok), she begins an intense relationship with him. When Hyun-shik attempts to kill himself by swallowing fish-hooks, Hee-jin rescues him and begins violently removing all the competition for her favours.
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