teodorodontosaurus
Indeed it's unique, special, subtle and original.
A feature that makes this movie so good is the use of the uncanny principles: we don't know whether fantasy elements are being present here or not.
The reduced dialogue scenes is another feature that makes this movie unique; dialogue is replaced with symbolism; actually, symbolism may be the main feature of this movie.
Fact: only after the movie ends you realize how good it is.
A well-balanced movie full of... uncanny moments, symbolic imagery and events, allegories... all these hidden within an apparently banal movie.
This is a modern hidden/unknown/underrated movie masterpiece.
grandmastersik
An intelligent young man who suddenly stopped talking, dropped out of society and somehow has an infinite supply of leaflets, breaks into people's homes and spends the night, washing their clothes in return, like a the pixies who visited the Shoemaker.One day the "mute" comes across a sad and desperate woman whose husband beats and controls her. After spying on their lives for a while, the insane "hero" slugs a few golf balls into the husband with a 3 Iron club (hence the film's title - ooh, isn't that clever?) and the wife runs away with him to travel on his motorcycle (which runs on infinite fuel, since he doesn't have any income whatsoever and never steals) and together they break into houses and take selfies.And that's pretty much the plot.Towards the end we're "treated" to some completely ridiculous changes in character as the two leads seem to go mad... or is it us? After all, what is life but a dream?Sigh. Honestly, the first hour's a good art-house flick but the rest is nonsense that insults anyone with real intelligence, leaving only sad, film buff nerds who think that they're smarter than they are to swear the film's excellence, because they had the patience to sit through it (yet turn "crap" like Transformers off after 5 minutes).
pasang-sharma
I think this is undoubtedly my favorite kim ki duks film.Its a masterpiece.Now leaving aside all the technical aspects.It has a very ingenuous and a never before seen plot.Well i definitely have not seen it before..That my friends,should be reason enough for you to spend your time and money watching this film.I want to write this review without giving away too much but with this film it seems like writing a novel.A loner, an abused wife and a wealthy provocative husband comes an astonishing tale of epic proportions.I rate this film 8.5/10...A MUST WATCH...kim ki duks done it again with his silent lead role.
emt32987
THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS.Overall I enjoyed this film. Though it was full of absurd things, it somehow remained incredibly serious. In fact looking back on what I just watched, it seems a lot more interesting. *spoiler*How original is it to make golfing the weapon? As far as weaponry goes, I would have expected the golf club to be used as a baseball bat, but no, it was never like that at all. The golf club was almost less important than the golf balls. That's just one of the reasons this film surprised me. *spoiler*I can not get over the fact that whenever the movie got serious between the main character and his love interest, the main character would play this one certain song from a cd he kept with him at all time, on the nearest cd player. That was over the top to me. Like a song alerting you "This is the climax" over and over.this isn't a movie you can grasp, it's just kind of one giant confusing mash up of sneaky self righteous people doing sneaky things and getting hurt. Several things happen that are in no way linked to any feasible plot, but seem deep at the time, the last few words at the end of the movie attempt to draw a connection between what the heck you just saw and something deeper, but I'm not convinced.It kept my mind busy and I don't know why.
