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Kim Ki Duk's movie TIME movie trailer
Director Kim Ki-duk (김기덕) in his film from 2006 called "TIME" (Shi Gan)
I have seen Kim Ki Duk's films and this one incorporating Plastic Surgery was a bit harrowing and sobering. But overall a great film and there was alot dialogue in comparison to his other films. Great acting and the plot was good. It makes the viewer assess what their thoughts on relationships and looks. Seh Hee realizes that her two year long relationship might a bit be boring for her boyfriend Ji Woo whom she loves obssessively. One day she disappears without a trace from him to get plastic surgery.
During her six month absense, he is alone and missing her. He wants to be comforted by other women but it somehow never happens. Then he meets at the coffee shop a gal named See Hee (Seh Hee under her new name). They start dating but soon she realizes that Ji Woo is haunted by Seh Hee, whom he still loves. See Hee becomes insanely jealous of herself.
What happens when Ji Woo discovers the truth of See Hee? The tables are then turned on her and results in an interesting ending.
I loved the sculpture park on the island Ji Woo and Seh Hee liked to go to. I really loved the hand they would sit on.
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From Avistaz Asian Torrents review:
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
Prolific author and enfant terrible of Korean cinema Kim Ki-duk plumbs the depths of obsessive love in Time. Kim plays with the craze for plastic surgery that has invaded our lives, as magazines and television shows such as “Extreme Makeover” have streamed together into a nightmare of eternal youth and beauty. Kim’s unpredictable genius takes a fashionable issue to extremes in order to probe the dark, jealous core of a relationship gone wrong.
Attractive Seh-hee (Park Ji-yun 박지윤) is having problems with her boyfriend, Ji-woo (Ha Jeong-woo (하정우). After two years, their love has entered a period of weariness. Though faithful to his fiance, Ji-woo eyes other women and, in bed, seems to get excited only at the thought of making love to other partners. Seh-hee can’t cope with the mounting jealousy tainting her life and decides to dramatically change her look - to become a new woman, with whom her boyfriend can again fall in love.
She enters a plastic-surgery clinic and then vanishes for six months - long enough for the scars to heal - leaving Ji-woo hurt and confused by her disappearance. Resurfacing as the new waitress at the coffee shop Ji-woo frequents, Seh-hee - now calling herself See-hee (Seong Hyeon-ah (성현아) ) - tries to seduce him. But between them stands the spectre of Ji-woo’s lost girlfriend, with whom he is still very much in love. Jealousy once again creeps into the shaky existence Seh-hee has artificially crafted.
A clean style guides the circular syntax of this extreme tale of love. Set mostly in coffee shops and bars, where the intimacy of a lovers’ discourse is shared by curious clients, Time is steeped in a quiet, disturbing violence that censors feelings and mutilates the soul through body surgery. As if trapped within a meandering, irrational mind, the script follows a complex rhythm that mirrors the obsessive tone of the film and displays once again Kim’s talent for transforming high-concept ideas into incandescent cinema.
AKA - Time (International: English title)
Year - 2006
Genre - drama/romance
Directed - Ki-duk Kim
Country - South Korea
Audio - Korean
Subtitles - English
Run Time - 97min
Links - IMDB , @hancinema
Cast: Sung Hyun-ah, Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-yun
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