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Strange erotic movie
Lies is a film about a sexual relationship between a final year high school girl and a grown up artist. A Teenager girl wants to loose her virginity to a married grown up artist . Their relationship gets stranger with the artists lust for pain and sado mazo actions. Later girl develops a liking towards this acts and becomes the fountain of life for him. The sex, passion and sado actions are portrayed as real as a responsible camera gets thus coming closer to the soft porn cliches with beating each other with sticks that are collected from the parks by the couple.
It is an interesting movie with the 2 characters lust in Korea a modern but a traditional country where morality and respect is appreciated. Film is not about real love but passion, lust and phantasies, so be warned.
Interesting fact is that film is based on a book which caused writer to end up in jail. But film is all around the world and especially screened in festivals.
It is not an easy film to watch sometimes so you have to make up your mind.

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Kinky, voyeuristic, entertaining.
Personally, if an erotic movie lacks sensuality, I'm not really interested. So that was my initial opinion. But personal taste aside, this movie was flawless (especially in the boundaries of what the director had in mind.)

It's about a 38 year old married artist: thin, average appearance, with a penchant for sexual sadism (done to himself or his partner, he can go either way) ... and an 18 year old student: tall, pretty, willing to do anything.

There are very few other characters that appear; the movie follows these two very closely and has a documentary-like feel. The documentary style and with a constantly moving hand held camera, I think, would have made the movie feel long and laborious had the director not included some of the craziest techniques I've ever seen. At one point, they had sex in a very silly high speed. Another example is when, during a scene where the girl's friend beats her up in a jealous rage, the director yells "cut!" and the film crew comes in to the picture as the actresses hug and recover. Also, this movie has some great, memorable lines:

Y (the girl) proclaims to J (the man), "So cute, but weird. I missed it so much. I could cut it off and take it with me!"

J says to Y over the phone, "Sock marks are so sexy."

And my favorite: narrated by J, "Y had no other luggage with her. What else would an innocent angel need? Just a school uniform with little angel wings. And the stick that makes everyone happy."

Some things about the description to this movie though are misleading. It sounds like it's full of psychology and that J ends up going too far and Y withdraws. She's understandably pulled into other directions eventually (growing up and all) but their relationship only ends when she moves to Brazil. The only lies involved are the ones that they tell to others, not each other. There's never a climax or demise to their relationship as with most erotic films. Which personally, I thought was refreshing. It's really just a crazy, kinky film. It's heavily crafted though and brilliantly acted which moves it from being simply entertaining to also "ah.. uh..... interesting!"

The DVD is in Korean with optional English subtitles. Comes with a trailer, filmographies, and a statement from the director .. in which he sums it up well with: "It only takes a small change of angle to see love as absurd or hopeless."

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Not a shock
The movie it's attractive until the half, with plenty of love scenes and sadistic ones, but it's not as shocking as other movies. The movie becomes very disgusting when J wants to be whipped and he wants to be dominated, that's very weird. The problem it's the voice off and the sudden changes of rythm, when things go right, suddenly the image it's distortionated or the colour changes. However you can see the movie with no problem, I can't consider it a porn movie.