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filmnoir1 wrote:One of the great things about Time was that the film is truly about the idea of editing, whether it be the editing of a film or a person wishing to edit their appearance.

That's a great way to put it. It's a viewpoint that makes sense. Thank you for sharing that.

I also find many things to love in his films and the point you make about him going back to a theme he began to explore in 3-Iron about the merging of fantasy with reality, is right on the money too. In fact, that's the thing I love the most about his filmmaking and ironically, that's the thing that the people who don't understand him use as argument to discard his type of cinema.

Lifesize Entertainment is giving Time a U.S. release this summer.

souvenir wrote:Lifesize Entertainment is giving Time a U.S. release this summer.

I too have seen this on DVD and I have to argue that I believe it to be one of Kim's better films as well. In terms of thinking of Kim as someone like a Hitchcock who used his stories to explore what filmmaking is capable of, I would argue that this movie is truly about the idea of editing. It is not without reason that Kim makes the main character of the film a film editor, who is working on cutting the film 3-Iron. Also if you think about is not plastic surgery in effect a metaphor for the notion of editing? Both of these characters wish to be something more and in terms of cinema that is what it allows people to do, if only for a fleeting moment.

This film is definitely one which true lovers of the medium should see. While Kim is controversial it cannot be argued that he is not a film artist.