He lure you Gourmet Asian aesthetics, all that is alien and exotic Buddhist symbolism. Will offer a leisurely evening with a half hour of the film. Starts easy and silent, but somewhere halfway to the final frame confuse, will confuse, scratch inadvertently piercing episode and eventually throw a before dark screen - think about the void that has befallen you because of flimsy Scenery films Kim Ki-Duk.

Kim Ki-duk - best known for outside their country of Korean director. For Western reviewers was he It is a symbol of original Asian art-house, in the homeland, however, the tape Kim Ki-Duk leaders in the national rental not knocked out. For the intellectuals - he is a guru for representatives kinoelity - marginal. The objective is that more prominent figures in Asian cinema today does not.

Kim Ki-duk first saw in a movie 32 years. It happens. He graduated from agricultural school, worked in a factory, He served in the Marine Corps. Cultural values ​​- a whim of the rich and loafers, Koreans accustomed to work to exhaustion, from early childhood they were Not needed. But after serving in the army, he unexpectedly became interested in painting and in 30 years, and he leaves Paris - study history iskusst.

After seeing the movie, Kim Ki-duk is back home and started writing scripts. After three years, he has received recognition in the form Grand Prix of the Writers Guild, and a year later took off his own movie "Crocodile". FROM Since then he shoots a lot, very much in comparison with any other religious or very directed - affects the desire to make up for wasted portachennye years. One gets feeling that Kim Ki-duk has one for the whole of Korea. At least, he usually is an authorized representative of its people in international festivals. The main and the only one. He manages to shoot two films a year, each of which receives a rich dot on reviews and a bunch of general phrases: "Well, you know, it's Kim Ki-duk ... "," Kim Ki-duk in his repertoire ... "," You do not Believe Kim Ki-duk took off again ... a masterpiece. "

Kim Ki-duk does not accept the rules and laws. It is subject except that the composition, and his sense of style. He lifted cinema for themselves the rank of religion, no less, and his every polkonyaetsya frame of each new ribbon. Maybe so paintings Korean director sometimes resemble hypnotic shamanic ritual purpose obessmyslenny, impersonal, confusing and leading into a trance. "Films do not change reality, but state of mind of the individual, - said Kim Ki-duk. - Filming as a form of close monitoring the man, his subconscious tracks, fixing every impression. My semi-abstract concept of the movie lies in the fact that we show something more than everyday reality. "

What movies Kim Ki-Duk? About love. About love to death. And maybe not. In any case - a rigid film, in which brought disgrace to the fascinating taste terrible beauty, sin becomes something helpless and hopeless, beautiful people languish in walls shocking life, endless human tragedies happen in the background dog baiting. And at the same time on the works of Kim Ki-Duk's nothing you can not say for sure, it will surprise you, see yourself and hold another extravagant experiment malleable cinema. And the film, scratching his harsh reality It is replaced by a silent romantic history, and another, and another. Discontinued each Another "Empty House" and "push the string" full of purity, though a few European view as unusual, exciting and mysterious Buddhist poetry. Follow them "Time" once again takes the viewer whether in a nightmare, or a ball of postmodernism. Drammatizm subject collisions intertwined with the eccentric.

But in every film, Kim Ki-Duk there is a common core. Emptiness. That emptiness, which is the central concept Buddhism, which is hidden behind the illusory real world. Kim Ki-duk without thinking lifts the veil. Emptiness manifests itself in silence and impersonality, Zen spinelessness heroes in unspoken feelings in unfinished storylines, and a general lack of the usual cohesion and the logic of the narrative. It is shocking, and it leaves a film painful aftertaste. That it attracts and fascinates.

Korean Movie guru unique way the same as his biography. Five years ago, Kim Ki-Duk named director all often show signs of genius. Who called him a genius - means slide to banality.

Daria Petchorin