Roxannecvm Review of The Isle

The Isle (2000)

SPOILER: It is hard to understand disturbed attraction. - I might SPOIL it for you.

[5/10 · 2 August 2004]

Seom is quite unique. Not quite as brute as Audition, to which it is often compared, yet much more subtly menacing. I cannot claim to have fully understood this film, yet it does seem to me that the attraction between the mute care taker and the fugitive is purely violent. The parallelism between her muteness and him swallowing fishers hooks (note that he does not speak thereafter), and his attempted rape of the care taker and her inserting the fishers hooks into her genitals (you do not see them intimately thereafter) seems to resolve all issues between them. They have somewhat become equal, and choose to live in solitude. Having become the same, there is no reason for them to continue their desperation though - they are not alone anymore, finally. That is why (and how I disagree with other comments) it is necessary for them to die in the end (I do assume both have committed suicide).