Kim Ki-Duk is one of my favorite directors. 3 IRON and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring are included into my top 50 movies list, among the thousands i have watched. And i like a lot many other movies of his.
SAMARIA is probably my least favorite Kim Ki Duk movie. It was so unexpected;y mediocre that make me want to revisit other movies of his, because many years have passed since i watched his movies, and now i think there is a chance i overestimated him as a director. Yes, SAMARIA is that mediocre.
The premise seems dumb and unrealistic. But i bought it because his movies overall are not that realistic. Still, i couldn't connect with this. A terrible thing happened without any reason and then, another thing happened, even more outrageous. But still i could roll with it, until the movie changed its perspective, and then, the protagonist was different. It was even more ridiculous.
And i couldn't understand what Kim Ki Duk was trying to say. Or i did understood it, but it was so shocking and dumb that i prefer to pretend it's vague.
In any case, it's well acted, it's interesting and it's so unpredictable that make want to see where it goes.
Sadly, it goes nowhere.
SAMARIA is probably my least favorite Kim Ki Duk movie. It was so unexpected;y mediocre that make me want to revisit other movies of his, because many years have passed since i watched his movies, and now i think there is a chance i overestimated him as a director. Yes, SAMARIA is that mediocre.
The premise seems dumb and unrealistic. But i bought it because his movies overall are not that realistic. Still, i couldn't connect with this. A terrible thing happened without any reason and then, another thing happened, even more outrageous. But still i could roll with it, until the movie changed its perspective, and then, the protagonist was different. It was even more ridiculous.
And i couldn't understand what Kim Ki Duk was trying to say. Or i did understood it, but it was so shocking and dumb that i prefer to pretend it's vague.
In any case, it's well acted, it's interesting and it's so unpredictable that make want to see where it goes.
Sadly, it goes nowhere.