Lies - lust and lies

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Movie
German title Lies - lust and lies
Original title Geojitmal ( 거짓말 )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 1999
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Jang Sun-woo
script Jang Sun-woo
production Shin Chul
Kim Hyeong-jun
music Dalpalan
camera Kim Woo-hyoung
cut Park Gok-ji
occupation

Lies - Lust und Lügen is an erotic film by the South Korean director Jang Sun-woo from 1999, which deals with a sadomasochistic relationship between a 38-year-old sculptor and an 18-year-old high school student. The film is based on a 1996 novel by Jang Jung-il and was banned shortly after its release.

In Germany , the film opened in cinemas on October 10, 2002.

action

A high school student named Y comes over her friend Woori phone this week with the married, 38-year-old sculptor J . Finding his voice sexy, they decide to have phone sex and meet later. Y is still virgin , but at the very first meeting they have besides regular sex have oral and anal sex in a cheap hotel. When he later asks her why she wanted to have sex with him, Y tells him that her sisters were both raped at the age of 20, one who committed suicide, the other later married her tormentor and went to Brazil with him . But she didn't want to be raped the first time, she wanted to choose the person. When her friend Woori later learns about the relationship, she is angry and beats Y up because she wanted to sleep with J. Later, Woori apologizes and Y regularly tells her about the sex practices.

At the second meeting, J introduces her to sadomasochism and wants to whip her. Y quickly takes a liking to it and J beats her with different materials at every meeting. After J hits her once too hard and Y starts crying, he offers her to whip him. She does this and both of them enjoy it. However, J also wonders how Y could endure this pain all along.

Shortly afterwards, Y's brother finds out about the relationship and burns J's house down. Y runs away from home and no longer goes to university. Instead, J and Y go from dump to dump, have sex and scratch each other's thighs with tattoos . After every hotel visit, Y tells her friend Woori where they were. This tells Y's brother this on, so that he follows her, but always comes too late. As a result, he is constantly on the move and one day dies in an accident with his motorcycle. Y then decides to return home and go to college again. J initially reacts angrily because he has nothing left, but eventually returns to his wife in Paris . One day he gets a call from Y that she is in Paris and they meet at the airport. She is on a stopover on her way to see her sister in Brazil. They go to a hotel together and Y hits J in school uniform with the handle of a pickaxe. After that, they don't see each other again. When his wife asks him about the tattoo, he lies to her.

Age rating

In South Korea, the Korea Media Rating Board initially rated the film as "reluctance", which means that the rating will be postponed indefinitely. This meant that the film was initially not allowed to be shown in South Korean cinemas. When the film received an invitation to compete at the Venice International Film Festival in 1999 , the classification was changed to "not approved for young people".

reception

The film was rated as average in the film magazine Cinema . So it is positive when the perspective changes and the amateur actors are interviewed and life dreams, fears, obsessions are shown. However, if one climax follows the next, this is only revealing for voyeurs.

Variety's David Stratton came to a similar conclusion. The film is sincere and courageous and impressed by it, but that feeling fades over time. Lies touches on political issues easily through demonstrations that the protagonists pass and the status of women in South Korea is briefly addressed. The film is too long, however. Like Cinema , Stratton rates the interviews during the film, when the main actors talk about their roles, positively and fascinating.

"Brittle art film that tries to come to terms with a strangely apathetic approach to a sexual variety without looking at the self-destructive level of this relationship."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dal Yong Jin: Transnational Korean Cinema. Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2020, ISBN 978-1-978807-88-4 , pp. 30 .
  2. ↑ Lies - Lust and Lies. In: Cinema . Retrieved April 27, 2015 .
  3. ↑ David Stratton: Review: 'Lies'. In: Variety . September 13, 1999, accessed April 28, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Lies - Lust and Lies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved April 28, 2015 .