First thing coming to my mind after having watched Adress Unknown was: would this guy (I mean, Kim) prefer to be living right now in a unified country ruled by Kim Jong-un?, because the odds for this would be extremely high should the American army happened not to be around there. Well, I do not want to discuss on Kim Ki-duk political ideas, but regarding cinematography this is very likely his worst product, which is a pity since I highly appreciate some of his other films, mainly Pietà and Moebius.
Cinematographic manipulation hardly can go that far as in this film, we should turn to Soviet cinema from the 20s-30s to find something of a similar level. But even getting rid of any contextual historical and political issue does not improve the film in the least: it's not much more than a piling up of rough (bordering disgusting), senseless violent and dim-witted scenes in a bleak, desolate landscape (which seems to actually honour the equalizing merits of the plot and execution of the film).
Sadly, my opinion on Kim Ki-duk cinematography has received a strong blow with this film... anyway, I'll give him another try, maybe he just had a bad day when decided to film this thing.
Cinematographic manipulation hardly can go that far as in this film, we should turn to Soviet cinema from the 20s-30s to find something of a similar level. But even getting rid of any contextual historical and political issue does not improve the film in the least: it's not much more than a piling up of rough (bordering disgusting), senseless violent and dim-witted scenes in a bleak, desolate landscape (which seems to actually honour the equalizing merits of the plot and execution of the film).
Sadly, my opinion on Kim Ki-duk cinematography has received a strong blow with this film... anyway, I'll give him another try, maybe he just had a bad day when decided to film this thing.