Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

delightful-life Hope you have read the official story line.I was intrigued by that and since we are all so used to so many of the Hollywood style movies and also because of the relatively low 7.2 rating here at IMDb I was expecting it to be a mediocre merry go round, boy was I wrong! This is a weird movie, and instead of putting us off it makes us think, think really hard. Very strangely, this movie, unlike other movies is always showing us a certain third party perspective (normally Hollywood tries to do just the opposite to make us empathize with the character), and its this that makes us 'think'.And I came off thinking:* Our lives are too good, and because its too good we do things to make it complicated, we basically imagine up things, and we ourselves create problems which we then try so hard to solve.* Only if we had left things as it was.* Aren't we being just plain greedy.If you have liked movies like Tokyo Story, Still Walking, etc., yes please check out this movie.Thank you for reading. :-).Cheers!

crossbow0106 This is a great idea for a film. Seh-hee (Ji-Yeon Park) thinks Ji-woo (Jung- woo Ha) is tired of her after two years of their relationship. She is insanely jealous, thinking he will go for anyone he comes into contact with. They break up and she gets plastic surgery, because she thinks Ji-woo is tired of her "same old face". In the interim, Ji-woo is very lonely, realizing he loves and misses her. She finds out he also gets plastic surgery and she tries to find him within the five moments their plastic surgeon said to wait until he will see her again. This film is filled with sometimes sad but great moments in which you truly understand the psychology of interpersonal relationships. The acting is uniformly good and the director, Ki-duk Kim, has put an almost fascinating spin on the travails of love, jealousy and anguish. Do you think Ji-woo and Seh-hee should be together again? As you watch, you wonder. I highly recommend this original film, which in terms of cinematography looks so vivid. Based on this film, I will be interested in the director's and the actors other works. That is a ringing endorsement for this film alone.

postmanwhoalwaysringstwice Adventurous Korean director Ki-Duk Kim has gotten a bad rap for his so-called idiosyncratic film-making, which he delivers with an impeccable visual sense, a twisted sense of humor, and provocative allegory to spare. His fast paced productions and edgy material create films that are rather unique works of filmic art that are clearly not to most people's taste. It seems that many of his harshest critics are surveying the trees and not the forest in his work, which misses the point.His 2006 film "Time" is another journey into the human psyche. This time with the story of a young couple whose overall unstable relationship replete with jealousy issues and frequent quarreling drive the woman to resort to drastic measures. She abruptly disappears from the man's life and has plastic surgery to change her entire appearance. As the days and months go by the young man loses hope that his beloved will return to him.This dark romantic, pseudo-science fiction, tale is at times captivating and unsettling and certain to be a satisfying date movie for intellectuals. It has plenty to say about the urge to change the one you love, the obsessive nature of passion, and the culture of youth and beauty. This is one great, great film!

Desidirius I was very disappointed by this film, perhaps in part because it is South Korean and I've enjoyed Joon-Ho Bong's work a great deal, as well as some others. I could see some similarities too in the rapid clash and shift in emotions in "Time," and found the final third fairly compelling. Unfortunately the film already had been undermined for me by that point. The movie struck me as being very ham-fisted -- over-the-top acting, repetitive situations, telegraphed twists. I also was frustrated by the way the main characters are presented to the audience, already bickering and irrational. Failing to show the audience the couple's relationship when it was good before showing its collapse and the shallowness and incomprehensible decisions of both of them left me with no one to root for, nothing left to do but ask, repeatedly, "what the hell is wrong with these people?" There's the kernel of a good movie here, but you have to dig -- and wait -- to get to it.