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Lies

Original title: Gojitmal
  • 1999
  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
1.7K
YOUR RATING
Lies (1999)
Coming-of-AgeDramaRomance

A sadomasochistic sexual relationship between a 38-year-old sculptor and an 18-year-old highschool student.A sadomasochistic sexual relationship between a 38-year-old sculptor and an 18-year-old highschool student.A sadomasochistic sexual relationship between a 38-year-old sculptor and an 18-year-old highschool student.

  • Director
    • Jang Sun-woo
  • Writers
    • Jung-Il Chang
    • Jang Sun-woo
  • Stars
    • Sang Hyun Lee
    • Kim Tae-yeon
    • Jeon Hye-jin
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    1.7K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jang Sun-woo
    • Writers
      • Jung-Il Chang
      • Jang Sun-woo
    • Stars
      • Sang Hyun Lee
      • Kim Tae-yeon
      • Jeon Hye-jin
    • 17User reviews
    • 23Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Sang Hyun Lee
    • J
    Kim Tae-yeon
    • Y
    • (as Tae Yeon Kim)
    Jeon Hye-jin
    Jeon Hye-jin
    • Woori
    • (as Jun Hye-jin)
    Hyun Joo Choi
    • G
    Kwon Taek Han
    • Y's Brother
    Hyeok-poong Kwon
    • J's Senior
    • (as Hyuk Poong Kwon)
    Myung Keum Jung
    • Senior's Wife
    Young Sun Cho
    • J's Father
    Mi Kyung Ahn
    • Noodle Shop Owner
    Kum Ja Yeom
    • Short Rib Shop Owner
    Boo Ho Choi
    • Motel Owner
    Hye Won Goh
    • Motel Owner's Wife
    Chui Jin Kwak
    • Taxi Driver
    Jin-ho Lee
    • Taxi Driver
    Jae Sup Jun
    • Noodle Shop Customer
    Mi Ran Yim
    • Noodle Shop Customer
    • Director
      • Jang Sun-woo
    • Writers
      • Jung-Il Chang
      • Jang Sun-woo
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews17

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    9Nodriesrespect

    Unavoidable Lies

    This often startling account of a progressively S&M tinged love affair (and, yes, that is the right word for it) between an 18 year old schoolgirl and a married man twice her age remains currently banned in its native South Korea where it's considered pornographic. In a sense it is, considering how much of the film's running time is devoted to fairly explicit (at times clearly non-simulated) sexual encounters. What sets this film apart from other recent releases that have incorporated hardcore footage as part of their narrative (like the astonishing BAISE-MOI or Lars Von Trier's THE IDIOTS) is that here there is actual warmth and sensuality to the copulation sequences, even when the protagonists are beating the feces out of each other, making it much harder one presumes for moralists to condemn on grounds of lacking humanity or compassion. Not that they would allow themselves to be seduced by this deeply moving yet quietly disturbing film in the first place. I for one found it exquisitely erotic (and frequently sweetly funny with the lovers' DIY approach to S&M), even - or especially, perhaps - in its more extreme moments, all of which handled beautifully by the two non-professional leads. The pared-down visual style gives the movie an edge and intensity, as if you're watching real people in a documentary rather than a fiction film. The movie's English title is explained in the shattering last line. It would sound glib to call this a REALM OF THE SENSES for millennium's end but that's the comparison that comes to mind.
    6claudio_carvalho

    Very Unconventional and Bold Love Story

    In Seoul, the eighteen years old student Y (Tae Yeon Kim) decides to meet the thirty-eight years old sculptor J (Sang Hyun Lee) and loose her virginity with him. After a few sexual meetings with J, Y is introduced in SM games, being spanked by Y and becoming addicted in sadomasochistic practice. "Gojitmal" is a very unconventional and daring love story. I saw this DVD on sale and I was really surprised with the boldness of Tae Yeon Kim, Sang Hyun Lee and director Sun-Woo Jang. When I worked in South Korea, I found a Confucian society, with costumes and moral values totally different from western societies, and I respected that a lot. My local colleagues informed me that, for example, the exhibition in the movie theaters of Louis Malle 's "Damage" had been forbidden, since their society would never understand the situation of a father having an affair with the wife of his son. At least, the "soju" remains the same in the present days. Therefore, when I saw that "Gojitmal", which is indeed a soft porn with very kinky sex, I was really astonished with the behavior of the characters. This movie is not bad, but it is interesting to read that most of the IMDb viewers liked it: the camera is amateurish, the lead actor and actress do not have the usual standard pattern of beauty and the locations are very simple. However, the screenplay is very unconventional and provocative, slightly recalling "The Last Tango in Paris", and the presentation looks like a documentary. "Gojitmal" is recommended for very specific audiences only. My vote is six.

    Title (Brazil): "Mentiras" ("Lies")
    wazsie

    Profound, intriguing, or just a comic pornographer with a rabble of prostitutes?

    I was unfortunate enough to catch the last 15-20 minutes of this movie one late night. I was horrified. How it could be played on cable TV without some kind of warning in the title, i don't know.

    It was on again last night. I dared not turn the channel.

    It scares me that this movie was allowed to come into Australia. I mean, yeah its art blah blah, but how did it get thru those Christian groups who lobbied against eyes wide shut and that french film that had real sex. Cos this is not faked lovie dovie sex. Its awful, and it turned me off having sex if it looked like that! i mean, ew! wrongness!

    So: If you're into the whole S&M beating the ass with stuff, well go ahead, watch it. But if you have a weak stomach, or cant handle graphic sex scenes, don't watch it.
    7rlcsljo

    A classic comedy about sex addiction.

    As I recall, in G. Lucas' film "THX-1138" there was a television channel that featured nothing but a robot beating a naked person with his billy club. When I first saw this, I laughed out loud at the obvious satire of our society's need for sex and violence in our entertainment. I had much the same feeling after seeing this film.

    At first the film seemed like a competent look at how two people in love want to explore every aspect of each other's bodies. The initial mild S&M just seemed like a logical extension of that exploration. But when the beatings bordered on mutual self destruction, I immediately saw this as lampooning our society's need for ever increasing "kicks" to satisfy our insatiable lust for ever increasing degradation of the human body.

    The director suckered us in and punched us right in the gut! Bravo!.
    nunculus

    Go figure: the latest Hou Hsiao-hsien movie won't be distributed in America....

    ...but this South Korean hunk of porn with pretensions was. The account of an S&M relationship between a schoolgirl and a dirty old man, LIES keeps making feints at art-movieness that suggest the silly "socially redeeming" side of stuff like I AM CURIOUS YELLOW. (In one particularly embarrassing conceit, the non-actors playing the leads discuss their discomfort at doing sex scenes.

    Ah, the Brechtianness of it all!) To think that crap like Catherine Breillat's ROMANCE and this monstrosity get shown in America's arthouses, while the latest Bela Tarr, Godard and Hou are sitting on the shelf, is an injustice of Katherine Harris proportions.

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    • Trivia
      Though the onscreen sex stops just this side of hard-core, it's fairly evident that intercourse is actually taking place in some scenes. Production notes assert that Sang Hyun Lee fell in love with his co-star Kim Tae-yeon during filming but that this was not reciprocated.
    • Connections
      Featured in Jang Seonu byeonjugok (2001)

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    • Release date
      • January 8, 2000 (South Korea)
    • Country of origin
      • South Korea
    • Language
      • Korean
    • Also known as
      • Yalanlar
    • Filming locations
      • South Korea
    • Production companies
      • Korea Films
      • Shin Cine Communications
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $61,900
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,232
      • Nov 19, 2000
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 52m(112 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR

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