In the Kim Ki‐dukʹs film The Isle (2000), we can witness to the cruel and lovely at the same time meeting between a man wounded by his own violence and a silent woman who manages a small watery world, that is a metaphor of the terrible fight between life and death. The film, slowly and implacably, shows us the feminine symbolic of nature, water, animal and human being in a cruel and saving characterization of which takes advantage the male principal character to heal his wounds and make his transformation.
Mottana, P. (2013). La divinité de l'eaux dans l'ile (Seom, 2000) de Kim Ki-duk. SYMBOLON, 9, 190-198.
La divinité de l'eaux dans l'ile (Seom, 2000) de Kim Ki-duk
MOTTANA, PAOLOPrimo
2013
Abstract
In the Kim Ki‐dukʹs film The Isle (2000), we can witness to the cruel and lovely at the same time meeting between a man wounded by his own violence and a silent woman who manages a small watery world, that is a metaphor of the terrible fight between life and death. The film, slowly and implacably, shows us the feminine symbolic of nature, water, animal and human being in a cruel and saving characterization of which takes advantage the male principal character to heal his wounds and make his transformation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.