Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Desire (Korea 2003)
Rosa and Kyumin are husband and wife living together in a lukewarm relationship. Kyumin had sex with a male prostitute named Leo. Rosa learned about it. When she accidentally met Leo, she had sex with him, too. Soon enough, the three were tangled in web of relationship they didn't know how to get out of.
"Desire" will be hard to sit through because the characters don't talk much. Unlike "Wanee & Junah", it has fewer dialogues and it relies on the emotional roller coaster that the characters are going through. The problem is, the emotions shown on screen were not enough for one to feel it. Unless you were in the same situation, you may get their point. Aside from that, it'd be difficult to know what exactly the characters want. If they're confuse, you'd be more confuse than them in the end!
"Desire" also relies on its eroticism yet there is nothing erotic about their sexual scenes. All throughout, this film is so cold and distant.
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Korean Cinema,
Movies
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I agree. I'm confuse, if the 'host' died...or did the wife cry because she saw the funeral flowers, and thought that it could have been for her?
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