The Bow 2005 123movies

Watch: 활 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – A sixty and something year old captain has been raising for ten years a girl since she was six in his old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore with the intention of marrying her on her seventeenth birthday. He survives bringing fishermen to fish in the vessel and predicting the future using his bow and shooting arrows in a Buddhist painting on the hull of the vessel while the girl moves back and forth in a swing. He also uses the bow and arrows to protect the girl against sexual assault of the fishermen. They live happily until the day that a teenage student comes to the ship and the girl feels attracted to him. When the teenager discovers that the girl was abducted when she was six and does not know the world, he returns to the vessel to bring the girl back to her parents..
Plot: On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 11,436
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 151 Popularity: 10.46 | TMDB

Reviews:

Engagingly Claustrophobic
This story is about a fisherman who lives on a somewhat dilapidated fishing boat with his beautiful “grandaughter”. The film pretty much takes place solely on the boat, they are never on dry land. The old man and the girl (they are never named and utter sounds but don’t speak) have a special relationship, which you learn more about as the movie chugs along. The girl, who in the film is 16, is played by Yeo-reum Han who, when she smiles, is extremely beautiful. Its no wonder the few other characters, all men who pay to fish on the boat, are drawn to her. The film is good as a minimalist piece. That also means, of course, its also a little slow. I was somewhat intrigued, and the film is brave for being so focused in one place. As you see from the 7 rating, its not a great film. If you don’t like minimalist films, do not watch this. I have never seen Yeo-reum Han in a film before, so I’ll need to see her to see whether she is a very good actress. She is good here, as is the old man, played by Seong-hwang Jeon. You won’t love it, but it will keep your interest.

love boat
Having seen (and absolutely loved) Kim Ki-Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring this was a must-see at the Cleveland Int’l Film Festival this year.

Alas, it’s just not magical enough.

I liked that the Old Man and the Young Girl never had dialog; it was the juxtaposition of the paying, fishing clientèle that was at odds with their relationship. As well, the use of the bow as a weapon was certainly effective, but the use of the bow as a badly-dubbed musical instrument was cheesy at best.

The plot was contrived, an ancient tale sent in contemporary times, uselessly introducing an anachronistic element into the plot line. The use of magical realism was spare and poorly timed, not being acceptable as a shift from the mostly concrete concerns and sensibilities of the rest of the movie.

This was a movie that got more and more disappointing as I watched it. The advice of more broadly-schooled Kim Ki-Duk fans would be good to follow: look for his “masterpieces”, not this or other “more mainstream works”.

Other Information:

Original Language ko
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (France), 1 hr 28 min (88 min) (Montréal) (Canada), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (Mar del Plata) (Argentina)
Budget 950000
Revenue 2032404
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Kim Ki-duk
Writer Kim Ki-duk
Actors Yeo-reum Han, Ji-Seok Seo, Jeon Gook-hwan
Country South Korea, Japan
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji)
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm