Lies
by Sun-Woo Jang
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Actor: Hyuk Poong Kwon, Hyun Joo Choi, Kwon Taek Han, Sang Hyun Lee, Tae Yeon KimDirector: Sun-Woo Jang
Brand: Genius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Korean (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
DVD Reviews of Lies
DVD Review: Rare Fun Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Better later than never.
Having watched a string of Korean-made movies of blood-thirsty characters fighting, shooting, killing, kissing, copulating and ejecting on-a-run is pleasurably surprised with this 1999 year production of sadomasochist lovers.
Had into English-speaking world much earlier been translated, it could be a sort of inspiration for makers of 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version and/or "28 Palms", for instance. Seen just recently, this story of excrement obsession and beating move Asian cinema in line with Salo and "8 1/2 weeks" but significantly differs for consensual attractiveness 16y.o. school-girl and her 36 y.o. buddy-architect feel toward each other and sex they enjoy.
Non-professional actors of average body shapes make this visual story even much more realistic than explicitly pornographic movies created by known actors.
DVD Review: *Whip/Crack* went this frumpy tale...
Summary: 2 Stars
I was at first disgusted with director Sun-Woo Jang because I had felt that he cheated me. Jang had the potential to create a strong, deeply emotional film about sex and its effects on people, but instead chose to focus his strength on the pornography element more than the actual human element. I couldn't see the characters at first and his sloppy introduction which blended both realism and cinema together was amateurish at best ... yet this film remained in my mind for days after I viewed it. What stayed with me wasn't the story, it wasn't the characters, nor was it the apparent pornographic nature of the film, but the transition that Jang demonstrated between Y and J. If you watch this film carefully, you will see that both begin in an exploration phase of their relationship, eager to jump into the unknown, but not quite certain the next step. As they continue to meet, exploring new avenues of pleasure, they continually jump between the aggressor and the aggressed. Jang initially explores the idea that J is the one that in control of the situation, then hauntingly, the reversal happens when J becomes obsessed with Y. It is a very small change, and due to the graphic content of this film, it can easily be missed, but it is there. It becomes apparently clear near the end when J cannot live with Y, as their meetings become less frequent, and J attempts to become a part of normal society. This was a huge and very exciting element to this film to see right before your eyes, but alas, it was the only element of this film worth viewing.
I will ignore those that speak of this film as nothing more than pornographic, because there are human elements at the core of this film, as underdeveloped as they are, they are there. It is a film about a facet of our lives that is very rarely explored in cinema or talked about in the papers. What happens behind closed doors is never known ... or so we should believe. While the act itself does becomes repetitive after a bit, director Jang tries to change it up a bit with some constantly changing scenery. Our characters are continually moving from hotel room to hotel room to best quench their thirst for each other's flesh. This is fun at first, but again, Jang's repetitive streak seems to make it feel boring than exciting. This leads me to the biggest issue that I had with this film. Jang had a great story with Gojitmal, but where he failed (outside of the obvious choice to focus directly on the pornographic side) was that he took scenes, repeated them time and again, without changing in front of us to allow us to get to know the characters. Where was Jang going with this movie? Did he want the sex to tell the stories, or did he believe the characters would? He failed in this sense because by the end of the film we know so little about Y and J that we could care less how they resolve themselves. The ending seems almost random at best as Jang attempts to create a final resolution for our two, absolute unknowns, of this film. I have to give Jang some credit for trying, but not much. He attempted to create some sub-stories that would create the personal element that we were lacking, but they just couldn't congeal well together. Y's brother and J's wife were those plot points, but again, due to him focusing so strongly on the sexual element, these stronger sub-stories became un-rememberable and down-right dull. Maybe it was just how I viewed this film, but outside of the sexual scenes, nothing else worked together. We knew nothing about J and Y and that is why Gojitmal failed.
Finally, I would like to say that this film could have benefited from having a strong score or a daftly remote music genre element to it to bring us, the viewers, closer to the emotions being felt by J and Y. From what I can remember, and I am trying to push this film far from my mind, I don't remember any musical undertones. Gojitmal may have been a stronger film if Jang either stylized it with music or done something to allude towards our character's beings. While I understand that he wanted the sex to speak for itself, there was just a technical element missing from this film that may have quenched a stronger desire for more. Technically, this was a poor film. Obviously an independent film in nature, it felt more like director Jang was trying to make symbolic references out of nothing instead of your typical independent of this nature. I didn't see as much of a social message or human element like mentioned above, I just felt like he threw this film together over the course of two weeks and understood that the sex would sell it enough. This was no Larry Clark production; this was sub-par and definitely needed some further technical clicks to develop it stronger than the final release!
Overall, I think I could have liked this film and there were smaller elements that I did enjoy, but I felt this film was rushed, repetitive, and played too much towards the taboos instead of breaking them. The obvious pitfalls of this film can be seen by the last scene of this film when we are privy to how the title of this film was conceived. Our characters were uneventful, our story was underdeveloped, and we could have used something memorable to make what was happening between Y and J into something more symbolic than sex. To me, Jang was trying too much to capture art house meets pornographic ... and it failed miserably. This was not a film worth the time and effort that it took to make.
Grade: ** out of *****
DVD Review: Lies...
Summary: 5 Stars
This Korean production left me somewhat suprised. That is, it was a love story. Yes, a slightly twisted love story. My view is that interaction between our main characters was love indeed. In any relationship, there must be a willingness to give and take, to stand firm, to compromise. The attention that they pay to each other during their 'sessions.' Remember, the beatings was only part of the retinue, it functioned as their appetizer, their main course, their dessert.
Another point that I'd like to make. A reviewer commented that the man wasn't really masculine at all (skinny, wimpy...). This is exactly the point of this 'man.' Because of his size, it shows that while he is a man, he is also small enough to be 'handled' by the girl (in the movie, you'll see what 'handled' means!). So, pay attention!
If you choose to buy/view this film, look for the 'lies' behind the relationships in this film (and maybe we'll all learn something!). Five stars!
DVD Review: SCAT KISS? NO THANKS
Summary: 2 Stars
I watched this in the hope of an erotic tale. Needless to say that is not what I got. The movie does start out in that direction, but soon spirals out of control into whipping and beating. (Not to mention the low point of the film: A scat kiss.) The character J at first seems to be a sadist, as he begins whipping Y prior to having sex with her. Later in the film the whip is turned on him and his true colors begin to emerge. As this relationship progresses it seems more and more like J is just taking advantage of Y's desperate circumstances to satisfy his own obsession with the whip. I found that there was no real connection between them as the whipping becomes so pathetic you just have to laugh at him. Pass on this film.DVD Review: not many films like these are being made today....
Summary: 3 Stars
Capt. Freaky usually loves any kind of S&M sex stuff....however, this movie falls short of being a 5 star film because it lacks the quality of people we want to watch screwing! The girl is pretty enough (I suppose) but the man is "girly", skinny and not impressive as a "dominant" who can control any woman and whip her into submission...
Its appropriate that later in the film, he starts getting beaten and whipped by her....she cuts her hair very short (butch looking) and begins to take over as the man in this film. There are alot of "simulated" sex scenes... and a lot of nudity, so I gave it 3 stars for a few sexually tense moments, that are quite suggestive. Its always a turn on for most of us when an older man or couple becomes involved with a dumb, horny,teen....
I suppose considering its now 2005...this film goes places no film dares to go these days....its not full blown "porn" however...there are no "money shots" in this film.
To sum up my review...its a weak, "Asian" version of some of the old Euro-trash, soft porn stuff from the 1970's. Except most of those films are more interesting to watch and better to use as "foreplay" to poke your significant other, than this film would be....I imagine this film would be a serious turn on for a 45 yr old Asian housewife, who dreams all day about whipping the crap out of a naked, 18 yr old high school girl, who may be sleeping with her husband. Yeah for those women...this would be an exceptional foreplay film! Si-o-nara!
Description of Lies
Jang sun woos highly controversial film chronicles the bizarre sexual odyssey of a 38-year-old married man and an 18-year-old student that tests the limits of both body and mind. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Jang Sun WooGeneral DVDs
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