It's formidable madness, but madness is not beautiful and psychedelic, but dirty and frightening. Undisguised crude Freudianism in half with pseudo-naturalism. The picture is pathological through and through. I am not a supporter of censorship, but I am even afraid to think what will happen if this film is seen by a mentally ill person.
Sometimes you don't know if you're disgusted or laughing. All these masochistic pleasures with stones. I could say a lot about the lack of logic in the plot, but I suspect it was not planned.
By the way, keep in mind: the cut-off of the member mentioned in the annotation is still “flowers”, in Mobius there is enough shock content, and not only dismemberment.
No, I'm a cultured person and I understand very well that Kim Ki-duk has a lot of important things to say. About the obsession of modern man with sex, about the loss of modern manhood and his spiritual castration. The fact that women have already taken the initiative from men, but have not yet figured out what to do next. The fact that the past generation manages to castrate the future, and all that “shines” humanity – endless spiritual incest, reproduction of emoji models of society, state, art, etc. I am an art historian by training, I understand everything and even agree with some of this.
But why it was necessary to make this ugly, dirty, nasty, pathological film is a mystery to me.
Bottom line: for lovers to philosophize over dismemberment and sexual perversions. I think smart cinema doesn’t have to be nasty, but Kim Ki-duk thinks otherwise – he’s right.
3 out of 10
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