The fact that it’s been years since I’ve last posted (maybe before I had Adam even) says a lot. I am not sure I like this film as much as I’m affected by it. Not sure if it’s a good way, but I can say that I think this is a work of an exciting film maker. The film is by Lee Sang-Woo, part of a trilogy (?); there’s at least one other in the series called “My Father is a Dog” that I’m trying to find a way to watch but can’t find it. I can say that the film is hard core in its content but not in the usual way. For instance, you’d expect sex and even violence from just the title; but none of it is straightforward–everything is twisted. Lee has been compared to Kim Ki Duk; in fact he got his start by working for Kim. But his stuff is so harsh that “Mother is a Whore” was banned for years (made in 2009) in Korea and just recently came out.
Watch it here: http://www.dramovie.com/movie/Mother-Is-a-Whore,-2009/
(click on #4 below the screen and onwards)
Let me know what you think. I almost can’t write critically about it yet, for some reason. Maybe because there are aspects of the film that do not seem to fit. It’s about poverty, religion, family, love, sex (its many faces: violence, desire, need, love, hetero-, homo-)–but everything somehow fits.