One of the best comedies in decades!
One of the most weirdest films I have ever seen!
I've see some weird movies (swedish, french, Japanese, south American etc etc...). I didn't think I could be made to turn from the screen & put my hands over my eyes anymore. However "Ki-duk Kim" writer/director reached deep into that dark space within his twisted soul and pulled this bad boy up for all to ponder.
I have never attempted to watch something so bad in my life.
First of all it has no dialogue, but it's not done in a way that makes sense, it's like they filmed it and forgot to record the actors microphones and just left it out.
It also looks like the kind of film a 14 year old would film for his school work (that kind of quality anyway, the topics covered are slightly stronger than that).
In the end I only got 10 minutes in, and that is only because I wanted to see how bad it could get, before I got bored of it.
This film features probably the most manic and sexually disturbed family since Visitor Q. Kim Ki-duk has always had some dark themes and cruelty in his movies but he tops himself with this. Here we have penis amputation, mastrubating through self-abraison and knife gouging, rape and incest. If any of this sounds unacceptable to you you shouldn't even bother.
The movie is told without dialogue which is a bit odd in some places but this somehow works really well with the low budget indie style. The actors manage to pull of this crazy story with Lee Eun-woo even playing a double role.
Are there any merits of watching the film? Probably not unless you want to see how far you can push to achieve a dark, sometimes comic, family drama.
Review by BronsonBlockedParent2022-06-28T20:21:22Z— updated 2023-02-28T10:02:56Z
This is a silent film, and I don't mean in the sense that Roundhay Garden Scene is a silent film. I'm saying: there is no dialog, no music (aside from the very end), and minimal foley. The vocalization we get is grunting, screaming, and crying. If that sounds like it would be boring, that's only because it is.
There is a very small cast here, and the bulk of the story revolves around Father, Son, Mother, and Mistress - the two female characters are both played by Lee Na-ra, which blew my mind; apparently she's such a great actor that you only have to messy up her hair and she becomes another person.
I'd absolutely call Moebius an art film, and I don't mean that as a compliment. I'm sure there is a deeper message going on here - I definitely got a Greek-tragedy vibe with the Mother cutting off Son's cock, Father wanting to murder Son, Father giving his penis to his Son, then Son using Father's penis to fuck the Mistress, and Mother, who are identical.
The fact that it was an entirely silent film just comes across as lazy, not creative. I'll qualify that by saying, halfway through the movie I accepted that Moebius just takes place in a mute world, easy enough... nope, the Mistress clearly whispers into Son's ear in one scene.
Given the movie's grim subject matter, one would expect it to be extreme in the depiction of gore or sex, but it is disappointingly tame. Really, baring that having a film focused on incest, and cutting off genitals will automatically get an R rating, this would be a PG movie, just with what is actually shown on screen. Don't be fooled, this is not a gore movie.
If you're into art movies, and wondered what it would be like if David Cronenberg directed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I guess this is for you.
Not funny - at least not intentionally - not gory, not tragic, just dull. Again, I know this was trying to say something, but I think it would have been better said with dialog.
All that aside, Lee Na-ra is hot, and I enjoyed seeing her... all of her.