Kim Ki-duk, a South Korean director who won Golden Lion’s award for best movie at the Venice Film Festival last week expressed concern Tuesday that theater owners who have shunned his work at home are still expressing their reluctunce of accepting his work.
He said that the prize was very important and hoped movie theater officals owners would open their doors wider than before.
While Kim has frequently been invited to international film festivals but his 17 previous works failed to attract movie owners who are usually big companies whose interest are money-oriented.
Kim’s movie ‘Pieta’, the brutal story of debt collector who cripples those who can’t pay until he meets a woman who claims to be his mother.
Critics say Kim has been using explict violence and depiction of female characters as victims or surbodnates to men also hurt effiort to draw audiences, Huffington Post said. Some of Kim’s past movies played in fewer than five theaters.
The post added that despite his dissapointment with the local movie business, the prise was a coup not just for him but for the entire film industry.
“I felt said that our lives could be destroyed by money. There will be fewer losers who grow up with a sense of insecurity,” he added.
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Park Sae-jin
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