Synopsis
Throw up until you cannot throw up any more. When the world snatches the innocence away from the girl, Cybele, in (Director: Serge Bourguignon), she loses her name. Likewise Hee-Jin (SUH Jung) loses words, locking herself up on the isle like a bird in a cage. She's always waiting for something, but she never know what she's waiting for. In a deserted isle where nobody lives, Hee-Jin sells her body as well as coffee to the anglers. She doesn't want to lose Hyun-Sik, a man who snuck onto her isle, because she has nothing else to lose. When Hyun-Sik leaves the isle rowing a boat into the world, Hee-Jin sticks fish hooks into her vagina and cries out like a beast. In 'The Isle', vagabonds, hermits, and runaways are floating across the screen and their despair, concealed dreams, castrated desires and instincts wriggle alive as a sliced carp swims and a frog is thrown alive onto the ground. Although it's disgusting to the viewers, the director persuades them to go to the edge of despair - the abyss - at least once. Then to finally soar high... Director KIM Ki-Duk has appealed mostly to a small group of film lovers and critics. However, regarding this movie 'The Isle', he does not seem to be able to avoid criticism from feminists. If he was isolated on an isle alone and left there alone for a long time, I am willing to go to the isle, to die. (PARK Sung-Kyung)