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A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.
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- 1 nomination
Cho Jae-hyun
- Father
- (as Jae-hyeon Jo)
Seo Yeong-ju
- Son
- (as Young-ju Seo)
Kim Jae-rok
- Doctor
- (as Jae-rok Kim)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaThere are no spoken dialogues in the film.
- Alternate versionsUpon first submission to the Korea Media Rating Board, the original 90 minute-cut of the film was classified a "Restricted Release" rating, which is equivalent to the MPAA NC-17 rating and would result into a very limited release only across restricted film theaters across South Korea. The KMRB objected the film's release due to its incestuous scenes. In accordance to KMRB's guidelines, director Kim ki-Duk would then trim off 1 minute and 20 seconds of footage for a second submission. However, this new 89 minute-version would also get a Restricted rating. Kim would then remove 50 more seconds of more incestuous footage and would bring the runtime down to its current form of 88 minutes. The KMRB rated the new cut a "Youth Not Allowed" rating and would finally clear a wide release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2013 (2013)
Featured review
Gore cinema to tell a Buddhist tale
Have you ever watched a film that brings your endurance to explicit (even sick!) blood and sex violence to its very limit while at the same time makes you laugh and depicts with smart (yet explicit!) cleverness one of the basic essentials of Buddhism?... No, I'm not trying to bring opposite worlds together, but Kim Ki-Duk did, in his film Moebius.
A truly masterpiece of cinema in its pure essence, compelling and with an stunning economy of resources: few settings, few actors, even the two female roles are played by the same actress (Eun-woo Lee) in an outstanding performance. Moebius tells a story with deep metaphysical symbolism using just images (there is no dialogs) and focusing exclusively and with dazzling clarity on the points important for the story and its meaning, namely the search for physical pleasure concomitant to the nature of every human being, and the main protagonist of this: a part of the male anatomy known as "penis".
Only after the last scene, when the young protagonist bows before Buddha, one can understand the whole meaning of the film, every piece fits then perfectly in the puzzle (emotional puzzle, we are not talking about crime and mystery here). Then we understand that pleasure (the main, maybe the only important one: sexual pleasure) comes always at a price in this world; pleasure involves pain one way or another. Not once in the film pleasure brings any kind of satisfaction or happiness, instead it causes distress, sorrow, guilt, pain, immediate or in the long term; many of the scenes in the film show the attainment of pleasure directly through pain, and with more pain as a consequence.
CAVEAT - SPOILER IN THIS LAST PARAGRAPH
But then, in the end, the young protagonist frees himself from this tie, through the most direct way: castration (well, there are actually several of these throughout the film, so WARNING for sensitive viewers!), and later, bowing before Buddha, he does something he had not done even once during the film: he SMILES, as Buddha did. He is released now from human passions, no longer slave of his desires, no longer subject to the inescapable search for pleasure of the physical body. He is now FREE
A truly masterpiece of cinema in its pure essence, compelling and with an stunning economy of resources: few settings, few actors, even the two female roles are played by the same actress (Eun-woo Lee) in an outstanding performance. Moebius tells a story with deep metaphysical symbolism using just images (there is no dialogs) and focusing exclusively and with dazzling clarity on the points important for the story and its meaning, namely the search for physical pleasure concomitant to the nature of every human being, and the main protagonist of this: a part of the male anatomy known as "penis".
Only after the last scene, when the young protagonist bows before Buddha, one can understand the whole meaning of the film, every piece fits then perfectly in the puzzle (emotional puzzle, we are not talking about crime and mystery here). Then we understand that pleasure (the main, maybe the only important one: sexual pleasure) comes always at a price in this world; pleasure involves pain one way or another. Not once in the film pleasure brings any kind of satisfaction or happiness, instead it causes distress, sorrow, guilt, pain, immediate or in the long term; many of the scenes in the film show the attainment of pleasure directly through pain, and with more pain as a consequence.
CAVEAT - SPOILER IN THIS LAST PARAGRAPH
But then, in the end, the young protagonist frees himself from this tie, through the most direct way: castration (well, there are actually several of these throughout the film, so WARNING for sensitive viewers!), and later, bowing before Buddha, he does something he had not done even once during the film: he SMILES, as Buddha did. He is released now from human passions, no longer slave of his desires, no longer subject to the inescapable search for pleasure of the physical body. He is now FREE
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- Vòng Tròn Tội Lỗi
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- Gross US & Canada
- $2,340
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $876
- Aug 3, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $11,563
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