Moebius

The lack of dialogue is actually a + for this film. The cast & director were somehow able to pack nearly all negative & frightening elements of sexual deviations into 1 film. Only the most grisly & gruesome elements were, of necessity were omitted, but highlights were explored in enough detail to satisfy most audiences. It would be very good to view other works by the same lead Actress, especially one in which she survives to "The End"! In all, Very Well Done!

This is filmmaking at its finest! Ki Duk tells a story of incest, castration and suicide in a Korean family without any dialogue for an hour and a half. It is an Oedipal tale about a Moebius strip of a family, where one nightmarish thing leads to another and things go around and around. The direction shows through in the fine performances of the actors, who must use only their expressions and body language to portray what is going on. It isn't a throwback to silent films though, because the acting is modern and stylized, the emotions are raw and plain to see, and the way it is filmed (camera work, sound) is exquisite. This is not a movie for American audiences, brought up on Batman, Superman, The Hobbit; it is a movie that requires an open mind and an understand heart in order to make sense out of the surprising, and often shocking twists and turns of the plot. Duk is not content to just turn out a easygoing Hollywood thriller or fantasy film. This is completely original from beginning to end. The subject matter is twisted and over the edge, even after Korean censors had Duk remove some scenes. It is a film for the diminishing group of film devotees left in our culture.

I'm not sure of a movie that I have ever watched that had no dialogue. And though this may understandably turn people off from watching this movie I would hold that thought and give this movie a chance. I loved the fact that so much was shown through non verbal language (of course there are grunts and sexual noises but no real dialogue). With all of that said, this movie is by far one of the most twisted movies I have ever seen. It doesn't take number one some how (lol) but it is way up there. I have never felt so uneasy through a movie as this one.

If you never heard of this film before, you’re not alone. It certainly isn’t the kind of movie promoted in mainstream, middle-class America (and, yes, we should be ashamed). I was lucky enough to find it while browsing Amazon’s prime selection.A husband cheats on his wife, who takes revenge on their teenage son by castrating the boy!? If the movie ended there, it would be enough to make anyone uncomfortable. But that’s just the beginning. Leave it to the Koreans to push the envelope. Just about every “perversion” you could imagine is here, and it’s all done without dialogue (genius—the characters’ facial expressions tell you everything you need to know). Incidentally, I was shocked to learn that the Mother and the Mistress were played by the same actress (Eun-woo Lee). Bravo!In my humble opinion, the moral of the film (suggested by its ending) is that we would all be better off without the sex drive (or at least the equipment necessary for its fulfillment)—an odd but strangely sensible notion.

A 2013 Korean drama “Moebius” is written and directed by Ki-duk Kim, responsible for such films as “Bad Guy” “Samaria” and “Pieta.” This means “Moebius” is no ordinary film. Ki-duk Kim’s typically shocking subject matter aside, the controversial director’s film is anything but conventional, as it is shot without any dialogue and characters have no name.A housewife, enraged because of her unfaithful husband, cuts off her son’s genital organs, and leaves her home. The father and son, now left alone, have to find a way to cope with the painful reality. What follows is a chain of events, mostly violent ones including gang rape, with the final act that is as intense as any horror movie you name.Thanks to the skillful editing and effective acting from the players, “Moebius” is far from boring and the unpredictable story is often fascinating. Even so, I kept asking myself while watching the film: “Why does the mother have to do this to her own son? Why these two characters are played by the same person? Why? Why?”You may send me hundreds of answers to my question. Some may say this is a Greek tragedy in Ki-duk Kim style; some say this is a Freudian drama; some may say this is about sexuality and transgression; some even say this is a dark comedy, so don’t take it too seriously.To me, the film is made for no other purpose than to shock us and challenge our values. The director certainly succeeds in doing so, but I really don’t see the point of the film.

This Korean film has no subtitles, but that's not necessary because there's no dialogue either. It is a horrifying and indeed repulsive story of a massively dysfunctional family. The husband is having an affair with a younger woman. His wife naturally resents this, but instead of taking the predictable course of filing for divorce, she follows in the notorious footsteps of Lorena Bobbit and makes an attempt to emasculate her husband. When he avoids the knife she attacks their sleeping teenage son, this time successfully, and then disappears.The rest of the movie deals with the aftermath of the attack. Both father and son are shattered and their lives spiral downhill. When the wife reappears things go from bad to worse, and the film ends as macabrely as possible. Reviews of this film quoted on the DVD packaging use terms like "grotesquely rewarding," "morbidly humorous," and "insane and brilliant." In each case I agree with the first descriptor, but not the last.RAM Releasing sent me this film of their own accord, and if it is representative of the sort of thing they normally produce I hope they never send me another one. This one's going straight into the garbage.

It's a little messed up