3-Iron (2004)

Starring: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Country: South Korea
Genre: Foreign, Romance

Chaplin. Keaton. Ki-duk Kim?

When a film of any country’s origin embraces the idea of images being a universal language, I tend to get a bit giddy, (don’t get me going on Chaplin films…) 3-Iron is so in touch with the idea that a story can be told without verbal language and still convey a wholly touching story, probably even better than most other films. To summarize it would take more words than I have room for here, but the first half of the film plays out a lot like Wall-E in two characters falling in love through excellently developed tender moments that never fall under schlocky, but remain in the cute realm that gives you butterflies. The second half of the film takes an unforeseen turn, but always stays true to the story being told. 3-Iron is absolutely one to be seen by any romance enthusiast.

2 Comments

• By 1minutefilmreview, November 22, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

  Nice. Loved the film too.

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