Wednesday, August 10, 2011

'3-Iron'

I like this film mostly for the first 30 minutes. It's about a young man, Tae-suk, who breaks into people's houses and lives in them.

He is not stealing. It's like he's a ghost, taking care of the house, mending appliances, doing the laundry and leaving things better than he found them.

He meets a girl in an unhealthy relationship and falls in love. The woman's husband is a very powerful, rich man, who has Tae-suk arrested.

At this point in the film, Tae-suk undertakes this role as an actual ghost: He torments the jail guards by defeating space and he gets out and becomes this shadow in the home of his loved one.

It's an interesting film about the idea of space and physicality. Where we are and where we are not. It reminds me of Gene Kelly dancing, how he can stand on a table or bar and do the things he does. Although space is limited, it doesn't seem like space is limited. It's like he could dance on air. Same with Tae-suk. He's like the wind. There but not.

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