shanghaaii Actually headline explains every feel i felt while i was watching. after 10-15 minutes, i asked myself why are u watching and after 40-50, i was like oh okay. when ended it , it became one of my favorite. with a deep meaning, great acting, less talking and simplicity of cinematography... it was definitely worth watching and also the soundtrack is perfect!!

grandmastersik An intelligent young man who suddenly stopped talking, dropped out of society and somehow has an infinite supply of leaflets, breaks into people's homes and spends the night, washing their clothes in return, like a the pixies who visited the Shoemaker.One day the "mute" comes across a sad and desperate woman whose husband beats and controls her. After spying on their lives for a while, the insane "hero" slugs a few golf balls into the husband with a 3 Iron club (hence the film's title - ooh, isn't that clever?) and the wife runs away with him to travel on his motorcycle (which runs on infinite fuel, since he doesn't have any income whatsoever and never steals) and together they break into houses and take selfies.And that's pretty much the plot.Towards the end we're "treated" to some completely ridiculous changes in character as the two leads seem to go mad... or is it us? After all, what is life but a dream?Sigh. Honestly, the first hour's a good art-house flick but the rest is nonsense that insults anyone with real intelligence, leaving only sad, film buff nerds who think that they're smarter than they are to swear the film's excellence, because they had the patience to sit through it (yet turn "crap" like Transformers off after 5 minutes).

kurosawakira When I saw this subdued and stupendously sumptuous film for the first time years ago, I was inclined to start a new film project: a list of the most amazing film moments I know of. These moments are those that I remember from films, even from years afar, sometimes only single images, sometimes whole scenes. There's such a moment in this film: when Tae-suk disappears from us, the eye (camera) looks around in surprised and anxious nervousness, never finding him. Have we become immersed to what he sees? What has he become? The scene continues as we revisit the places they've broken into, the most dramatic being at the photographer's place. He and his girlfriend are in the bedroom, while she becomes aware of someone's presence, looking at us in horror and saying that it's as if there's someone there.The camera, our perspective, is ultimately a ghost of some sort, simply depending what kind of mythic terminology one wishes to employ. The point is simply that it's a silent observer that the characters aren't aware of most of the time. Kim gives an answer to perhaps the most thrilling question I know, in cinematic terms: who is the camera? and what kind of personality does it have? I'm drawn to filmmakers who are fascinated with this, and Kim makes the whole story revolve around this question, as a matter of fact having the two main characters remain silent for the greater part of the film, silently observing, acting as ghosts in other people's apartments. Tae-suk is finally metamorphosed into the eye if not completely, at least at times comprehensively.I love the idea and how it's done: the eye curious about what happens around it, in this film reflected in the characters' comings and goings. It's brilliant, woven deeply into the fabric of the thing itself, rewarding the viewer by creating a sense of awe in the process. Kim lets other characters speak, creating a wall of silence around us and our surrogates, and we know where we belong: we don't speak, we observe.This is also a beautiful poem about love and life, and death. I recently saw Haneke's "Amour" (2012) and was reminded of this film, the power it has, and how it uses that power affluently.

mrmac-1 I once took a film course that discussed what film is about. I took away from the class that the medium is eclectic, involving in its expression elements of so many other arts -- painting, sculpture, music, dance, and time itself. Bin-Jip, 3 Iron, is an expression that distills the eclectic nature of the medium into an emotional purity that asks us each a question. What do you think/feel life is, what is the purpose of your life? The great gift of this film is that it allows for my (your) particular experience, whatever your take on life.Little if any dialog. Very fine cinematography. This film reminds me of the great New Wave French films of the 1950-60s. Ultimately, it's about the built-in desire we have for control of our lives, and the simple fact that we each need to accept that we need assistance, not perhaps from our fellow human beings so much as faith in some other force.An exceptional film.