Bin-Jip - Empty houses

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Movie
German title Bin-Jip - Empty houses
Original title 빈집 ( kor. Bin-jip )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2004
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kim Ki-duk
script Kim Ki-duk
production Kim Ki-duk Film,
Cineclick Asia
music Slvian
camera Jang Seong-back
occupation

Bin-Jip - Empty Houses ( Kor. 빈집, Bin-jip , Eng . Empty Houses ) is a South Korean feature film directed by Kim Ki-duk .

A special feature of this poetic love film is that the protagonist Tae-Suk remains silent throughout the film. And even Sun-hwa, the protagonist, only speaks two sentences towards the end of the film ( “I love you.” And “Breakfast is ready.” ). Otherwise, the director leaves it to the images and other actors to convey the plot to the viewer.

The German TV premiere of the film was on November 8, 2007 on ARD under the title Bin-Jip - The Shadow Man .

action

The protagonist Tae-suk drifts through the city on his motorcycle. He uses lock picking to break into various apartments whose owners are temporarily away. He uses pizza flyers as an indicator: if they are still intact long after they have been attached, he is sure that no one is at home. Then he sits down there, eats, sleeps and leaves again, albeit not without first washing the owner's clothes, cleaning the apartment and repairing defective equipment. The eccentric never steals anything, but always disappears unnoticed after a few days. But one day he breaks into the house of the model Sun-hwa, who is married to a wealthy businessman and is a victim of domestic violence . At first she hides from him, but when her husband comes and surprises the two of them, she escapes with Tae-suk and follows him on his journey through the city, which seems to have no real destination.

So both live in silent mutual agreement, from which an intimate affection develops. Sun-hwa accompanies Tae-suk from then on and penetrates houses and apartments with him. One day, however, they enter an apartment where they find a dead old man. Tae-suk and Sun-hwa then bury him in a respectful manner. But when the son of the deceased and his wife come into the apartment and discover the two intruders, he calls the police. Tae-suk is arrested as an alleged murderer. During the interrogations, Tae-suk still does not speak a word, which enrags the commissioner responsible. To get him to talk, he beats Tae-suk. It quickly turns out that the old man was not murdered, but died of lung cancer. Tae-suk is still charged with kidnapping Sun-hwa - her violent husband reported her missing - as well as breaking into and improperly disposing of a body.

Sun-hwa has to go back to her husband. Tae-suk's behavior in prison is strange: he learns to move in the guard's shadow, to always be behind him so that he cannot see him. Tae-suk is released from prison because the guards can no longer control him. First of all, he pays a visit to all the houses and apartments that he has toured with Sun-hwa, where he continues to use this technique and thus lingers virtually unnoticed by the people present there. Basically, it has really become invisible, you can feel it, but can no longer see it.

Finally he returns to Sun-hwa's house. Her husband is amazed at her sudden happiness. Little does he know that Tae-suk uses the same "invisibility" in his house and can only be seen by Sun-hwa, who is now blossoming again in her sincere love for Tae-suk.

The film ends with the inscription: "It is difficult to say whether the world we live in is reality or a dream."

backgrounds

A central part of the film is golf ; it occurs as a sport as well as a weapon. At the beginning of the film, Tae-suk incapacitates Sun-hwa's husband with targeted golf balls. When Tae-suk was arrested, the husband bribed the inspector and retaliated in the same way. After his imprisonment, Tae-suk attacked the inspector with the same method.

Before he was arrested, Tae-suk trained with a golf ball, tied it to trees with a string and hit it with a golf club. When one day the ball loosens from the string, a passenger in a passing car is seriously (possibly fatally) injured. The English title of the film, 3-iron , therefore not only stands for the triangle at the end of the film, but also for the type of golf club Tae-suk plays with: a 3-iron.

Awards

Reviews

“The world-removed film is characterized by meditative calm and double-faced characters who find peace with themselves through love. The artistic imagery blurs the boundaries between dream and reality and dissolves the plot into a delicate fairy tale, the protagonists of which appear like angels. "

- Lexicon of International Films

“But for all its beauty, Bin-Jip fades a lot faster than Kim's earlier films. One wonders what he actually wants to tell here, and whether the hints into which he withdraws are not simply imprecise. And when the piano sounds even more melodic one more time, and the characters are poetically silent again, then the suspicion grows that the director has made it a little too easy for himself this time to sell his originality for success with the western audience and instead of art, this time produced handicrafts that flee the world - admittedly at an extremely high level. "

- artechock.de

“There is a great distrust of language in this silent film, and rightly so. It belongs only to thugs, cops and choleric husbands. The lovers, on the other hand, do not exchange a single word. Perhaps they have disappeared from the start into a sphere that no longer needs any language or even a body. "

- Katja Nicodemus

“In Bin-jip, violence and suffering are deprived of a clear moral assessment. Rather, Kim uses forms of violence as a means of differentiating between people. The thugs with which the balls hit their victims are civilized instruments, they never become a raw means of violence. "

- Critic.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bin-Jip - Empty Houses . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 204 K).
  2. ^ The Busan International Film Festival Awards NETPAC for its 25th anniversary. In: NETPAC. Accessed July 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bin-Jip - Empty Houses. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Rüdiger Suchsland on artechock.de
  5. ↑ Katja Nicodemus in DIE ZEIT of August 18, 2005
  6. ↑ Frédéric Jaeger on Critic.de from July 20, 2005