Address Unknown
2001
A middle-aged woman tries in vain to track down the American soldier who fathered her child but one after the other her letters are returned with the words address unknown stamped across them. Her son, already a subject of social scorn falls in love with a high school girl who has found herself trapped in an abusive .. Read more
| Starring | Dong-Kun Yang, Min-Jung Ban, Young-Min Kim, Young-min Kim |
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| Director | Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Address Unknown
A middle-aged woman tries in vain to track down the American soldier who fathered her child but one after the other her letters are returned with the words address unknown stamped across them. Her son, already a subject of social scorn falls in love with a high school girl who has found herself trapped in an abusive relationship with an American GI. The boy's love for the girl, combined with his free-floating rage against society soon fuel a violent outburst that will change the lives of everyone involved...
| Starring | Dong-Kun Yang, Min-Jung Ban, Young-Min Kim, Young-min Kim |
|---|---|
| Director | Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 55 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Jun 2006 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
The offending eye
'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out...' St Matthew ch 18 v 9. I do not believe it is fanciful to quote the Bible, tho I am not a believer, with regard to Kim Ki-Duk. My first experience of him as a director was Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring. What struck me so much about that film was that it appeared to be Buddhist yet had such resonance with the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin. And then I discovered that Kim Ki-Duk was (is?) a Christian and had made up the symbolism in the film. Two days after watching Address Unknown I woke with the St Matthew quote in my head. Of course, I thought, there is the metaphor. Her eye represents the war and the US occupation of South Korea, when she fixes her eye with the help of the US soldier she betrays her country. To honour her country once again there is only one thing to do - I will not give away the ending of the film. To my mind this film is the best anti-war film I have seen. The whole quote goes like this, and it is clear to see how it applies to Kim Ki-Duk's film: 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.' Hell fire... a foreign armies dereliction and occupation of one's home land - I will not name the country that springs to mind.
Kim Ki-Duk says that all that occurs in the film he has either experienced or witnessed as he grew up in South Korea. I welcome his 'eye' for telling it as it is. -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
The offending eye
'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out...' St Matthew ch 18 v 9. I do not believe it is fanciful to quote the Bible, tho I am not a believer, with regard to Kim Ki-Duk. My first experience of him as a director was Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring. What struck me so much about that film was that it appeared to be Buddhist yet had such resonance with the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin. And then I discovered that Kim Ki-Duk was (is?) a Christian and had made up the symbolism in the film. Two days after watching Address Unknown I woke with the St Matthew quote in my head. Of course, I thought, there is the metaphor. Her eye represents the war and the US occupation of South Korea, when she fixes her eye with the help of the US soldier she betrays her country. To honour her country once again there is only one thing to do - I will not give away the ending of the film. To my mind this film is the best anti-war film I have seen. The whole quote goes like this, and it is clear to see how it applies to Kim Ki-Duk's film: 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.' Hell fire... a foreign armies dereliction and occupation of one's home land - I will not name the country that springs to mind.
Kim Ki-Duk says that all that occurs in the film he has either experienced or witnessed as he grew up in South Korea. I welcome his 'eye' for telling it as it is. -
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A middle-aged woman tries in vain to track down the American soldier who fathered her child but one after the other her letters are returned with the words address unknown stamped across them. Her ... -