... we are all empty houses... waiting for someone to come unlock and free us
today i went to watch the korean movie 3-iron with my hyung-su... it's been a while since i've watched something intriguing.. something that makes me think.. and definitely, this movie is the most abstract thing i've seen recently.
loosely translated.. the title is actually "empty houses" in korean.. jae hee is a man who breaks into houses, living like he lived there.. he would fix the broken stuffs and wash their clothes.. so far he'd never been caught until he went to this big house... and met a badly abused wife... confronted by her violent husband... jae hee uses his favourite golf club, 3-iron... hit golf balls at the husband and brings her out of that place. they lived from houses to houses... until..
some things are really special about this movie.. the guy never talked. NOT ONCE AT ALL. the woman did.. only "i love you" at the end.. that's all.. the movie was quiet.. silent without a single line for probably four-fifth of it. i guess i have no complaints... because i would need subtitles anyway if they spoke too much. lolz...
jae hee acted well.. as the college graduate who strangely chose to live a life like this... no explanations were given.. i don't think any explanation would be good enough though... some things are better left unsaid. the lady in question.. lee seung yuhn was the one who sparked the whole controversy because she shot a series of pictures, portraying those "comfort women".. i was surprised to see her in a major film release after the incident.. but the director.. acclaimed now for all his works and he got the best director for this movie at the venice film festival or cannes.. i don't remember... he said that he casted her because she was truly an outcast in the society..
at the very end of the movie.. it said .. it's sometimes hard to see if the world you're living is a dream or reality.. true enough... i often wonder if my life is a dream... maybe one day i would wake up to something else and everything i thought happened didn't happen at all. what would i do? what would i change? lolz...
although my life sucks now... i hope that doesn't happen.
and by the way... i think jae hee at the end was unreal.. because the weighing machine was zero.. but then again.. the woman may have fixed that. lolz...
listening to: 3-iron ost -- gafsa
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