Movie: Bin-Jip

On sunday night, quite by accident, I watched a Korean movie called 3-Iron. And I can't stop talking about it! The original is called Bin-Jip (literally meaning Empty Houses). The english title refers to a Golf club which plays a small part in the movie.

The movie is about a drifter, a person who breaks into peoples home eats, sleeps and leaves without stealing anything. He runs into this woman with an abusive husband and they run away. What happens then forms the crux of the movie.

I saw only 2/3rd's of the movie, and in all of it the couple do not exchange a single word. Yet, their silence speaks more than all the words in most of our movies. The movie is subtitled but you hardly need them to understand the movie. The actors are very good as well. Finally, one may have differing view points on the way the movie ends etc. but what I am sure everyone will agree on is the treatment of the film. Its so simple yet so different from what you normally see. It's just brilliant.

I have heard a lot about the South Korean movie industry being one of the best. Going by this movie, I can't wait to see more korean movies. Thank god for Netflix & Blockbuster.

PS: For more about the movie, this is the IMDB link and this is the Rotten Tomatoes link