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RCVR (2011)
Great! But How can I get English subtitles ?
I watched this series on Youtube thanks to machinima and liked a lot. It's extremely great. The only word to describe the series is great. I want to translate the subtitles into Turkish and share with my friend. I searched for English subtitles on the internet but I couldn't manage to find. Is there anyone who can help me to get English subtitles ? If there is, please contact me via this e-mail : gmencik@gmail.com
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Bin-jip (2004)
"Speech is silver, but silence is gold"
Kim Ki-Duk is the Korean filmmaker who doesn't like wasting of speeches. If you hadn't seen any of his works before, it would be impossible for you not to be amazed of watching the film with the least dialogs hiding most meaning.
I personally experienced this kind of amazement with 3-Iron (2004). Before I went to cinema, I prepared myself for a calm film like Takeshi Kitano's "Dolls". Because I could imagine the visuals of a director who left South Korea with only a flight ticket in his pocket and lead a bohemian life selling out his paintings during two years, in Paris. But I was wrong. 3-Iron was different from what I imagined. It was in so fluid and minimalist visual style that you can nearly feel the director and I lost myself in the depth of his simplicity.
It can be said that 3-Iron is the most extreme film with respect to telling most with least speech style of Kim Ki-Duk who uses scarcity of dialogues as a metaphor for pointing out the communication break between people. In this case; main characters' not saying a simple word while others shouting and yelling all the time in 3-Iron may be an ironic reflection of people's not needing speech to indicate their feelings what Kim Ki-Duk always says in his reports.
Actually Kim Ki-Duk is not a director who was wholly understood in South Korea like the characters of his films. Furthermore; he is conscious of not being watched in his homeland. For only this reason he founded his own production company to be free in his films. Because South Korean cinema sector has also some pressures on the director like Hollywood. These are celebrities in films, identifying oneself with the characters simply and an exact known endings. Of course, it is impossible to see these features in any of Kim Ki-Duk's films. Firstly, he chooses different and unknown actors/actresses for the reliability of characters and he presents us as if these were a real section of different and unknown characters' lives.
Kim Ki-Duk doesn't care to tell us the characters and events as one can see in any of classical films. We watch the film as spectators who witness some events during a period of time. In the end we could only give a meaning to the film with our own interpretations. So that, the impression of "the effect of film will continue after it ends" always remains on spectators' minds. Shortly, you couldn't calm down even the film ends.
Besides, Kim Ki-Duk doesn't mind being a moral model of the society. On the contrary, he doesn't care showing a character pure good or pure evil. And he says "Black and white have actually same sense of color." In other words an evil man can do a favor in any situation; though a good man can do evil things in any moment, too. Maybe for this reason, the director is misunderstood in the society all the time. For example; after the film "Bad Guy (2001)" in which he told us the violence of man on woman, Kim Ki-Duk was damned. Because everyone thought that he approved this situation. But it wasn't the case, Kim Ki-Duk was only the observer in the film and we are, too. Another example of misunderstanding and damning the director is "The Bow (2005)" in which he told us the story of a 60-year-old fisherman falling in love with the girl he adopted. It can be thought that the situations he observed and presented us are distracting some people in the society, so he isn't loved and damned by some, who knows...
The reality which the director catched in his films are willingly refuted by himself and interpreting this surrealist and interesting situations are completely devolved to the spectators. For instance; "3-Iron (2004)" in which the main character behaves like a ghost for not being seen by the husband for the sake of sharing the same house with his lover and "The Bow (2005)" in which 60-year-old fisherman made love and married to 17-year-old girl which he found when she was a baby. Therefore, the director both makes the dream of main characters' come true and carries out his 'semi-abstract' film style as he dreamed.
As a result; all the quite and shy characters who had painful lives are products of his own life. And he relates the decreasing dose of violence in his first films to his learning to accept everything the way it comes. Now, we are curiously waiting for his next film "Sad Dream (2008)" and wonder with which insane and defective characters he will meet us.