Kim Ki-duk's The Isle is a film that is meant for very few. It is said to be the movie that gave Ki-duk his international acclaim. The movie centers around a mute girl who rents small cottages on a lake for fishermen. The movie is one top class work on visuals. But the problem why Isle is not meant for everyone is the hidden violence, sex and brutality. A painful atmosphere is very well built by Kim in this picture that runs around 90 minutes. The Isle is a movie that works on a territory of violence that was far unknown to me with a subject, a purpose and a painful emotion of jealous, all to be conveyed to it's desired audience.
I haven't seen the original version of the film, Nidra, which was directed by Bharathan. But the version his son, Sidharth Bharathan, made was lovable for the way it was made. Nidra is a neat film. It has a writing material well adapted by Sidharth and Santhosh. The dialogues from Santhosh Echikkanam are bang on! Loved the visuals of the film as well but it seemed to have an excess of blue all over it. I wonder if Sameer Thahir did that to cover up for the excess of white that he might have had to accommodate while shooting on the Red camera. The music and background score of the film sounded well with the film. The editing and sound design were no less good. It did feel as though there where a couple of instances when the footages jumped creating a disturbance for a second or two. But, otherwise the editing by Bavan Sreekumar was just too good. I loved the editing on all those scenes that featured the redish look from Sameer and the scene at the dining table that featured on
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