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Bin-jip (original title)

Director: Ki-duk Kim

A transient young man breaks into empty homes to live for a few days, while the residents are away for a holiday.He does it though with good intentions, not being a thief, but a master, he repairs everything that is broken, no matter is that a tv set or a clock.

Everyday he hangs flyers on front doors, and by the evening he knows who is not at home. It's interesting that you get that only by the middle of the film, because first you think that's his job actually. He does that every single day, until he runs into an ex-model, a very beautiful women being hurt by her tough husband. It is interesting how these two young people build their relationship. Seems like they don't need words at all, they understand each other silently. When Tae-suk, for example, accidentally kills a woman in a car crash, Sun-hwa knowingly takes a sit by him and holds his head. Or when she stands in protest in front of the ball, when he plays "golf". There was no need for saying a word, that would destroy the scene.

It was interesting how they kept silent throughout the whole movie. Any other man caught by the police would be screaming that he is not guilty, but not him, even though he knew it was unfair. You keep wondering why he didn't say anything, until he is released from the prison. You understand how strong he is as a person, and you start to respect him as well as Sun-hwa, who stays faithful and unfailing till the end, even though her husband seemed changed cardinally.

My favourite scene was the very last one, when they stood on the scale, and it showed zero. I think that's a very beautiful interpretation of a metaphor for love. That demonstrates that People in Love do fly. I'm in love with that movie, and I look forward to seeing some more of that producer.

Invisible Movie

Definition: Shot, but not shown, distributed through secret copies on DVDs and internet.


Film of Alejandro Jodorowsky called "the Holy Mountain" was released in 1973.

Preconceptions can ruin the whole effect of a movie, therefore, the producer tries to destroy the viewer's view, in order to build a new pure image.

At the beginning, we can see Jodorowsky's criticism against industrialism and politics through showing us manufacturers of clothes, masks, make-ups, then guns, bombs, drugs and cancer gases. Very sexual and erotic scenes of mass produced art, sexual machine. Then with the toy factory there is a demonstration of people's multi-facial being, when a clown turns into the director of the war toys factory. There is a clear message of condition children from birth through comic books and toys. Then in pursue of his critical political concepts, Jodorowsky shows us an idea of a shelter, which is used by politics instead of building houses for people. The shape of a shelter is absolutely hilarious and at the same time horrible. Coffin...to sleep in? What can be more symbolic for bad politics not caring about its people. The next topic has to with immortality as one of the biggest desires of people all over the world. Death scares people the most. And the producer wants to show what people are capable of doing to get to the enlightenment and immortality. Through burning money they come to a collective being.

What strikes me in this film especially is the cruelty and violence so naturally shown by Jodorowsky. But if not focusing on that side of the film, but on spiritual and philosophical, we can see that his logic is clear, and that a better future is possible if people come to enlightenment and spiritual growth. I think, this film is very influential for a film production as well, as it consists of a huge number of different small, but interesting as a separate unit scenes and topics, from which other producers and film makers can easily get an additional inspiration for their own works.

Goofs and errors in film production

It is known that there is nearly no film in the world that has been produced perfectly with no mistakes and errors. And so with this essay I’d like to describe and analyze those concentrating only on the most common mistakes in film productions due to limitations of the lenght of the paper. I’ve chosen 10 films as an example, which are best 10 of 2010 for IMDb Database. Those are: Inception, Toy Story 3, the Tourist, Crazies, the Social Network, Kick-Ass, Due Date, How to train your dragon, Buried, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

First of all, I found that very often one can notice errors in continuity of a movie. For example, when the staff didn’t pay enough attention to the set, and what we get as a result: «When the car rolls through the car wash and is outside, in one shot the driver's side door is open. A few shots later the door is closed. Next shot after that the door is open again». Or when even an actor forgets his own look in a previous shot: «A scene at the truck stop where the sheriff is being pulled down, and under the rig, his right hand is not bandaged as he hits the ground, and it appears the left one is. As he lands on the bottom of the bay his right hand is bandaged again».

Another obvious mistake is having a daylight and night in one scene: «When Arthur collects Cobb in Tokyo, they leave the hotel room and go to the roof for the helicopter at night. When they are on the roof, it is daylight». Same mistake can be seen with weather conditions as well: «When Saito enters the helicopter and tells Cobb about the inception plan, hard rain is hitting the helicopter window. Subsequent shots show no rain». Disappearness of something can be noticed by the viewers almost in every film: «When Judy shoots the hunter inside the semi-truck, blood covers the inside window. It disappears once they begin driving».

We can see that there are all sorts of continuity errors in film production. I suppose, the only solution for preventing them is to have a special person, whose work would be to take records of the scenes, have photos each time there is a crusial thing to remember, preview previously taken shots of the film to make sure everything is on its place and in right order. I think, those kind of positions actually exist in a film crew, but probably they forget about their responsibilities, and pay less attention than needed to these kind of trivia.

I’ve also met factual errors in some films, usual viewers do not pay attention to them, but there are some who notice. Here is an example from one of such: «The mayor says that shutting down the water supply in the spring time would be bad for the farm economy, because the crops would not grow. Corn (and all crops) in Iowa does not grow with irrigation; the water supply comes entirely from rain».
Another huge mistake comes from anachronism, for example: «The deejay at the 2003 party is mixing with a music software called Serato Scratch Live, which did not get released until May of 2004». Errors in geography are quite common as well: "The boat in the swamp had a license on the side that started with an A. The A would match with a state that started with an A, yet the movie was taking place in Iowa. (In the credits, it said the movie was filmed in Arkansas and Georgia, so this must have been Arkansas)". Visibility of the crew of equipment is highly not recommended, as it can totally ruin the whole atmosphere and impression that film tries to give to its viewers. «When Cobb confronts Mal at the hotel, in front of the open window with billowing curtains, a crew member's fingertips can be seen through the sheer fabric».

Though these kind of errors are severe mistakes of the whole production crew, in my opinion, they are still quite easy to solve. Factual, geographical and anachronism mistakes can be avoided during the pre-production, it just needs some deeper research. As for the crew visibility, that’s entirely of the production team responsibility, especially of the camera man. He is the actual person who sees what is being shot, and what are the borders, over which the team shouldn’t be seen. During the production period, the director cannot pay that much attention to those little things, he concentrates himself on the overall effect of the work. Therefore, these mistakes fall on sholders of the crew. Of course, with new technologies it is now easy to hide some mistakes during the post-production. But as we can see, it is rarely done well.