Jan 21 2007
Favourite Movies of 2006 - #4
3-Iron - A guy spends his time breaking into and living in houses where he knows the owners are on vacation. He always cleans and tidies up the house, then leaves a token of appreciation behind. Inevitably he breaks into a house where someone is home, and I don’t want to say what happens next, but it’s magical.
The director, Ki-duk Kim, who directed one of my favourite movies from last year, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring, likes to create characters who develop relationships in a non-verbal manner — and he makes it work. The two main characters of this film don’t speak a single word to each other, yet you know exactly how they feel about each other. It’s pure fantasy, of course, but pure cinema, too, in that you’re drawn into the story, into the lives and feelings of the characters, simply by watching them be together.
It’s magical and compelling and dramatic and tragic and funny, and I know I’m going to like this movie more every time I watch it.
