Shi gan (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Ki-duk Kim

Guionista:

Ki-duk Kim (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 agosto 2006 (South Korea)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

Plot Keywords:

Face | Photograph | Sculpture | Surgeon | Plastic Surgery

Premios:

3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

An incredible exploration into the oblivion of contemporary identity.

Reparto

Jung-woo Ha	...	Ji-woo
Ji-Yeon Park	...	Seh-hee - before plastic surgery
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ji-heon Kim
Sung-min Kim	...	Plastic Surgeon
Kiki Sugino		(as Yeong-hwa Seo)

También conocida como:

Time (International: English title)
El tiempo (Argentina) [es]
Time (Spain) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

Japan | South Korea

Idioma:

Coreano

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Singapore:M18 | Hong Kong:IIB | Finland:K-13 | Argentina:13 | South Korea:18 | France:U | Norway:10 (self applied) | Norway:15 (TV rating)

Compañía:

Happinet Pictures

Citas:

Ji-woo: [Having been rudely awakened] Did... did you just slap me? Why did you do that?
See-hee: Because I love you.

Conexiones de Película:

References Yasaeng dongmul bohoguyeog (1997)

An incredible exploration into the oblivion of contemporary identity.

There is something startlingly relevant to this film. The ever increasing lack of identity in the modern world, and the rise of all sorts of abstract selves, from Internet IDs to Social Security numbers, has left our age with nothing but ever changing faces and dubious selves. The most corporeal and brutal example of this is cosmetic surgery. And, Kim Ki-Duk's haunting masterpiece speaks to both the obsession with a physical ideal, as well as the very ambiguous ideology of identity.

As a cynical and often apathetic moviegoer, this film entranced, bewildered and truly disconcerted me. Kim Ki-Duk is developing into an incredible filmmaker. The cinematography is delicately crisp, in a way that is very new and only really found in a handful of Asian movies from about the last 5 years. The dramatic elements are utterly profound, and the plot functions on many levels, (though not specifically allegorical) invoking and evoking issues ranging from history, the failure and ultimate relativism of communication, the absurd necessity for beauty, as well as a plethora of other parallels.

Anyhow, I find myself being verbose, but I just watched this movie and am terribly excited about it. Instead, the film itself is anything but convoluted, and though not exceedingly complex, is incredibly deep. Be patient, because it starts a little slowly, but erupts into something so strange and meaningful that I would recommend this film to anyone that enjoys Asian cinema or that likes to think.