starring Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee
written and directed by Kim Ki-Duk
Tae-suk (Jae Hee) lives a solo existence. He breaks into homes when people are not there, fixes things, washes their laundry, and then disappears before they return.
Everything changes when he meets Sun-hwa (Lee Seung-yun) a physically abused wife who is still in one of the houses which Tae-suk visits. She leaves with him when her husband returns unexpectedly early from a business trip.
They travel around together for a while. They are eventually caught in one home when the owners return from vacation in the middle of the night. They flee but not long after that they find the dead body of a elderly man in one of the homes which they visit. Tae-suk gets accused of murder but is later exonerated of that crime when an autopsy reveals that the old man died of lung cancer. Sun-hwa is sent back to her husband.
Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are separated for a while but eventually they are reunited but in an unexpected way.
Thoughts
I don't know how to explain what Tae-suk goes through in the second half of the movie. He gets locked up. That part is fairly straight forward. What isn't is that he seems to teach himself how to be invisible.
The first half seemed a little different but really intrigued me. There are long periods in which there is no talking. There doesn't seem to be a romantic spark between Sun-hwa and Tae-suk at first. It is only towards the middle of the film that this changes.
I don't fully understand this movie but it was magical. The way it was shot, the music, and the pacing all contributed in positive ways to the experience.
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