Time (2006)

"Time" is a new foray Ki-Duk in his usual cinematography, depicting youth possessed by an amour fou that exceeds, sometimes, the imagination.

The movie can be divided in two parts, according to their level of interest. The first half is quite rich in suggestions and is a violent kind of introduction to a history dominated by passion and desire, translated into insanely jealous unchained act as inevitable the couple's romantic tragedy. The last quarter of "Time" suggestive ruins the original proposal in his acrobatic stunt, too gimmicky and repetitive, also including a link or connection predictable from beginning to end, as if it were impossible to escape the spider's web in which the loving young couple is involved. Even the staging seem to refer to such "conviction", repeating physical space, more frequently as the film progresses, thus articulating otherwise, the impossibility of loving couple. While this resource may also involve the viewer in that impasse faced by players in practice is a loss in the form of a bore.

Despite this daring style typical of the naive who usually propose some oriental cinema, also highlight the message is clear, sharp criticism that the film goes on excessive valuation that is given to physical appearance through the use and abuse is done in today's society of plastic surgery.

6/10