"Keep making films."
Oki's Movie is only 20 minutes long. This is because Oki's Movie is actually the last of four short films revolving around her affairs with two very different men during her time at university. A Day for Incantation, King of Kissing and After the Snowstorm complete the brief snapshots of the lives of Oki and her lovers, Song and Jingu.
Not a great deal happens in any of these shorts and it is easy to lose touch with the timeline. It doesn't help that at times (including one entire scene very early on in the film) the subtitles are completely obscured; white against white.
The performances are enjoyable - Lee Sunkyun is particularly strong as the pompous, bragging fool of a man developing from a needy, clingy boy - but the brief glimpses into the lives and thoughts of the protagonists do not allow you to become attached enough to care for them and the film felt largely forgettable.
A film where nothing happens, four times - 5/10
No comments:
Post a Comment