The Bow
활
2005South KoreaLanguage: koDirected by Kim Ki-duk★ 6.9
Available in English: subtitled
On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard.
Themes and style
Tone
hauntingmelancholicsurrealquietly devastatingcold and detached
Pacing
slow burndreamlikemethodical
Story
unravelingescapepursuit
Emotion
all-consuming loveloss of innocencelongingfeeling powerlessfiguring out who you are
Themes
men and women navigating expectationsfamily wounds passed downfamily duty
Feel
quietly hauntingdiscussion starteremotionally wreckingcerebral
Violence
moderate