Where does love reside? ‘Shi Gun’ is a journey through time to timelessness, streching the limits of transformations, testing the bounds of bonding
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Kim Ki Duk spans his narrative through an unusual love story where faces become masks and relationships signify a continuous act of deferance.
It is not just a story where a paranoid woman decides to change her appearance for securing her lover’s attention, or even where she recognizes her folly in the whole matter but a journey towards an epiphany of futility, an anagnorisis of waste, a tragedy brought upon pointlessly by wrong choices, and mistaken priorities.
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Monami Mukherjee is an educator and lifelong student of English literature. She studied at Lady Brabourne College and the University of Calcutta, where she completed her MPhil, and has 21+ years of teaching experience. Her interests include Feminism, Post-colonialism and Modernism, and through NibblePop and its YouTube channel she breaks complex texts down into simple, relatable ideas. Read more
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