Samaritan Girl 사마리아 by Kim Ki-duk (김기덕) (2004)
Hmmm, had heard really good things about Kim Ki Duk, and had wanted to see some of his films, and this was interesting, though I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. It is about a bunch of fucked up people pretty much, and especially a little girl and her father.
Han Yeo-reum (한여름) plays Yeo Jin a high school girl who manages her best friend in her amateur prostitution, fixing dates and collecting money. Her best friend is the pretty Jae Yeong (Kwak Ji-min 곽지민)), who likes making friends with her patrons. Yeo Jin’s father is a police detective, so eventually their lives cross. Jae Yeong jumps from the second story of a love hotel and lands on her head to escape the police, and Yeo Jin takes her to the hospital. She wants to find her parent’s, but jaw Yeong gets her to bring her favorite client a Musician (Woo Yong 오용) who won’t come unless Yeo Jin first sleeps with him.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
i She does, and they go but Jae Yeong is dead already. Yeo Jin pretty much loses it at that point and decides to sleep with all the men that Jae Yeong did, but return their money, but it gets complicated when her dad sees her, and starts trying to stop the trysts or attacking the guys afterwards. He causes one family man to commit suicide (Shin Take Ki), and then kills a man (Park Jeong-gi 박정기) in a urinal. He takes his daughter to see her mother’s grave, then he teaches her to drive, but she dreams of him killing her, and as she is driving men come and arrest her dad and take off. She tries to follow in the car, but gets the car stuck, and is left alone.••••••
Interesting. Disturbing. Not really that good. I mean the performances are good and all, but the story doesn’t really draw me in. These people are all pretty messed up in my mind, not sure why I want to watch them. Hmm, have SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER… AND SPRING to watch by him next. hope I like it better.
