Moebius (2014)

The Worst Film Ever

A Disappointing Continuation

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I never heared a thing about this flick but now and the, it pops up on lists were they are talking about shocking flicks or weird flicks and I can agree on both parts, it can be shocking for some and if you do watch it it is weird on other parts, That been said it is mostly filed under horror but I can't say it is really horror because there's no gore attached, it's all done off-camera but still it do shock. It's all about a man cheating on his wife. The wife knows so she decide to castrate her husband and from there I can't say more. What I said was seen in the firts 5 minutes. From there on the story goes really beserk. For the gorehounds or the lovers of old school horror there isn't much to catch but it do contains a lot of nudity, castration, bullying, rape, masturbation and mutilation. So you can understand that is isn't going to be a ride for will make you comfortable. Coming out of South Korea it makes it even weirder. And don't worry, there is no spoken word throughout this sickie. So no subs needed you can pick it up all over the world. Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

MOEBIUS is another provocative effort from Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk, a man who is one of my all-time favourite directors thanks to his efforts on such masterpieces as SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER...AND SPRING. This is more of a low budget, experimental film with the biggest twist that there is no spoken dialogue in the whole movie, although Ki-duk is such a good director that you don't even notice.The story is about a twisted family relationship that propels various characters into perversity. When an odd and unexpected castration occurs in the first five minutes you know you're in for a wild ride and Ki-duk certainly delivers in that respect. His film is frequently shocking and harrowing, and yet it seems to explore the human condition in an artistic and somehow beautiful way too. I see it best as a story of a virus initiated by an act of violence that then spreads to all of the characters involved, leading to a nihilistic outcome that is both powerful and inevitable. MOEBIUS is challenging, thought-provoking, and thoroughly engaging, just like all of the director's films I've watched.

On a close look at this film, director Kim Ki Duk cannot be blamed for making a controversial fiction film about the taboo subject of 'Incest'. It is not the depiction of the social evil but the manner in which this topic is handled is strange. In the recent history of South Korean cinema, Moebius might be one of the few films where a South Korean family especially the parents are shown in an extremely bad light. The biggest problem about this film is that it does not have any dialogs. The actors are shown to perform their roles without uttering much. This has given rise to a lot of confusion as viewers might have hard time understanding the real motive of different characters. At a time when most joint families are collapsing due to irresponsible attitude of individual members, Moebius is surreal depiction of the total collapse of a family due to the neglect of the family by the male member. Kim Ki Duk's controversial film "Moebius" got a second lease of life when a ban on its showing in South Korea was lifted. There is hardly anything strange in this development as most of his films have failed to achieve popularity with domestic audiences in South Korea.Moebius is a good link to the chain of controversial films started by directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Louis Malle.

Master provocateur Kim Ki-Duk did it again. A movie that made people vomit during its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, that divides its audience in lovers and haters and that will have a cult following in some years. For some reason it felt like watching Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void: I was incredibly fascinated and couldn't turn my eyes off the screen, but at the same time I was so happy when the end credits started rolling. Still in doubt about how I feel about Moebius, I can say one thing for sure: this is a film I never have to see again. I'm glad I did, but it's an experience not worth repeating. Why not? A woman catches her man cheating on her with another woman (played by the same actress). She wants to take revenge and cut off her husband's penis. Failing to do this, she cuts off the penis of their son. Wrecked by guilt, the father offers his penis to his son by transplant. In the meanwhile, the son "raped" the woman his father had an affair with (as I said, who is played by the same actress as his mother, see what Ki-Duk did there?). Once the transplantation is complete, the son begins to get sexually aroused by his mother and vice versa. Seeing this, the father wants to cut off his son's penis yet again, but fails. Eventually he kills his wife and himself. While telling this sickening Freudian nightmare, Ki-Duk refuses to let his actors speak one word (there's no dialogue in this movie) and adds some knife-in-shoulder masturbating to take it all just one step further. Yes, you really need to have the stomach for it. Unfortunately, Ki-Duk forgets to make an interesting visual movie (unlike Noé's Enter the Void) and thereby doesn't reach the bourgeois public he intends to insult and provoke. But still... This movie is unlike anything you've ever seen. Try it.