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MOEBIUS

Moebius

Kim Ki Duk

Drama • 2013 • 1h 30m

Reviewed by Beatrice 23. June 2023

Family: father mother, son

Father and son have breakfast in different rooms the mother drinks a glass of red wine.

The father's phone rings and she tries to snatch it from him to answer it.

The father goes out, the son sees him having dinner with another woman, and the wife sees him in the car cheating on her.

Not a word throughout the whole film.

The husband is asleep and she tries to emasculate him, fails, and emasculates the son.

Does the father emasculate himself in turn, out of guilt? Or out of sharing?

"The odyssey of finding the lost penis begins....

Everything revolves around orgasm, any mode of achieving it is permissible.

The end justifies any means, including self-generated physical pain.

Nothing else concerns the experience of these people. Sublimation: this stranger!

If with "Pity " Kim Ki-duk focuses on the absoluteness of money and the total dependence on it in "MOEBIUS " he subjects to scientific research the enslavement of our lives by sex but especially by orgasm, the only true God of the human condition.

The ceiling flap of Fassbender "s "Shame" because Kim Ki-duk only sees big.

Violence, incest, all without a single word.

Dialogue and relationship are no longer of this world.

Slavery is our condition

We are left with nothing but aphasic consumption, stunned by the totalizing emptiness.

No hope is granted: the darkest Greek-style tragedy has been fulfilled. From Oedipus to Medea, here is the sacrifice, but the mother is complicit: the son is saved.

Freud is "exhumed along with all contemporary philosophy. Not only that. A. F. MOEBIUS, German mathematical philosopher of the 18th century famous for the tape of the same name, a concept not to be overlooked when watching the film, is also discomfited.

Homologation, illiteracy, perversion.

A film for Kim Ki-duk lovers, for those who want to see the human condition.

Refrain if unprepared.

IRREVERSIBLE

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