Film from one of the great Korean film-makers, Kim Ki-duk. Pieta is most appreciated film, won Golden Lion at Venis Film festival ! Belief about law of karma is vividly reflected in every scene. Sins will accumulate bad karma and will end up person into trouble. Films by Kim Ki-duk are characterized by very less dialogues. Emotions are showcased through body language, expressions and background score. Violence by protagonist shows lack of love, kindness. He grew up without mother. He was abandoned by mother in childhood.
Protagonist of film is man named kang-do. In order to recover money from men, who took loan but couldn't pay back, protagonist decides to cripple them by cutting their hands and claim insurance money. He attracts revenge of these people and families, which ended up into worse situation and started begging on streets. Film shows mysterious relation between woman telling mother of a man. She says, she abandoned him at very early age.
This film overall showcases a class of population, which survive life resorting to crime and violence. Lack of jobs in society generates poverty, joblessness. People end up doing crimes for their bread and butter. Family system is broken. Children orphaned at early age of childhood survived by doing whatever job comes on their way. They lack emotions, empathy or kindness. Ack of nurturing make them land up into low grade jobs, if not crimes. In such time, rich men offers loans and try to profit by raising interest rate high.
Couple of scenes for which film criticized could be easily ignored if one doesn't like. Everybody has uncalled fantasies, film-maker tries to put in film to make it real.
I watched this film in Retrospective section of Pune International Film Festival (PIFF). Director of the film died due to covid in 2020.
Pieta is the must watch in Korean films.
Protagonist of film is man named kang-do. In order to recover money from men, who took loan but couldn't pay back, protagonist decides to cripple them by cutting their hands and claim insurance money. He attracts revenge of these people and families, which ended up into worse situation and started begging on streets. Film shows mysterious relation between woman telling mother of a man. She says, she abandoned him at very early age.
This film overall showcases a class of population, which survive life resorting to crime and violence. Lack of jobs in society generates poverty, joblessness. People end up doing crimes for their bread and butter. Family system is broken. Children orphaned at early age of childhood survived by doing whatever job comes on their way. They lack emotions, empathy or kindness. Ack of nurturing make them land up into low grade jobs, if not crimes. In such time, rich men offers loans and try to profit by raising interest rate high.
Couple of scenes for which film criticized could be easily ignored if one doesn't like. Everybody has uncalled fantasies, film-maker tries to put in film to make it real.
I watched this film in Retrospective section of Pune International Film Festival (PIFF). Director of the film died due to covid in 2020.
Pieta is the must watch in Korean films.