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Moebius

Original title: Moebiuseu
  • 20132013
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
6K
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POPULARITY
16,974
996
Moebius (2013)
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A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's, and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's, and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's, and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
6K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
16,974
996
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    • Director
      • Kim Ki-duk
    • Writer
      • Kim Ki-duk
    • Stars
      • Jae-Hyun Cho
      • Yeong-ju Seo
      • Na-ra Lee
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Kim Ki-duk
    • Writer
      • Kim Ki-duk
    • Stars
      • Jae-Hyun Cho
      • Yeong-ju Seo
      • Na-ra Lee
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 44User reviews
    • 105Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

    Videos1

    Moebius
    Trailer 0:55
    Moebius

    Photos8

    Na-ra Lee and Yeong-ju Seo in Moebius (2013)
    Moebius (2013)
    Na-ra Lee in Moebius (2013)
    Moebius (2013)
    Kim Ki-duk in Moebius (2013)
    Jae-Hyun Cho, Na-ra Lee, and Yeong-ju Seo in Moebius (2013)
    Moebius (2013)

    Top cast

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    Jae-Hyun Cho
    Jae-Hyun Cho
    • Father
    • (as Jae-hyeon Jo)
    Yeong-ju Seo
    • Son
    • (as Young-ju Seo)
    Na-ra Lee
    Na-ra Lee
    • Mother
    • (as Eun-woo Lee)
    • …
    Na Chul
    Na Chul
    Jae-hong Kim
    • Gang Leader
    Jae-rok Kim
    Jae-rok Kim
    • Doctor
    Hong Sung Min
    Jung Soo-Kyo
    Hyuk Jae Yoo
    • Director
      • Kim Ki-duk
    • Writer
      • Kim Ki-duk
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      There are no spoken dialogues in the film.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2013 (2013)

    User reviews44

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    Gore cinema to tell a Buddhist tale
    Have you ever watched a film that brings your endurance to explicit (even sick!) blood and sex violence to its very limit while at the same time makes you laugh and depicts with smart (yet explicit!) cleverness one of the basic essentials of Buddhism?... No, I'm not trying to bring opposite worlds together, but Kim Ki-Duk did, in his film Moebius.

    A truly masterpiece of cinema in its pure essence, compelling and with an stunning economy of resources: few settings, few actors, even the two female roles are played by the same actress (Eun-woo Lee) in an outstanding performance. Moebius tells a story with deep metaphysical symbolism using just images (there is no dialogs) and focusing exclusively and with dazzling clarity on the points important for the story and its meaning, namely the search for physical pleasure concomitant to the nature of every human being, and the main protagonist of this: a part of the male anatomy known as "penis".

    Only after the last scene, when the young protagonist bows before Buddha, one can understand the whole meaning of the film, every piece fits then perfectly in the puzzle (emotional puzzle, we are not talking about crime and mystery here). Then we understand that pleasure (the main, maybe the only important one: sexual pleasure) comes always at a price in this world; pleasure involves pain one way or another. Not once in the film pleasure brings any kind of satisfaction or happiness, instead it causes distress, sorrow, guilt, pain, immediate or in the long term; many of the scenes in the film show the attainment of pleasure directly through pain, and with more pain as a consequence.

    CAVEAT - SPOILER IN THIS LAST PARAGRAPH

    But then, in the end, the young protagonist frees himself from this tie, through the most direct way: castration (well, there are actually several of these throughout the film, so WARNING for sensitive viewers!), and later, bowing before Buddha, he does something he had not done even once during the film: he SMILES, as Buddha did. He is released now from human passions, no longer slave of his desires, no longer subject to the inescapable search for pleasure of the physical body. He is now FREE
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    • Apr 7, 2015

    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 29, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • South Korea
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Vòng Tròn Tội Lỗi
    • Filming locations
      • South Korea
    • Production company
      • Kim Ki-Duk Film
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,340
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $876
      • Aug 3, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $11,563
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 29 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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