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  Review by Sin ✊🏿 ★★★½ 12

  On the evolution of sexual awakening, the revolution of unmentionable carnal impulses, and the devolution from lascivious newness to monomaniacal degeneration.

  Hey, sometimes you just need the one you adore to spit in your mouth after indelicately but affectionately drubbing you. I get it. We all have our “sexy buttons.”

  In Lies, protagonists J (38-year-old artist) and Y (18-year-old student) consensually flout the repressive lies of prescribed sexual inhibition and reject the lies of relational convention. They define who they are, how they choose to love, and what they mean to each other on their own terms. And I'm here for it.

  I appreciate the way this film explores sexual liberation (particularly Y's journey, which is refreshingly empowering) and how…

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  Review by SupremeLemon (지존레몬) ★★★★ 2

  "This story should be filmed as if it were graffiti. Lettering within the film could also look like graffiti. The subtitles, too. The images should be very rough. And what about the genitals and pubic hair? Should they be covered up? Or should we just try to avoid showing them? Whatever, the viewers have to be stopped from projecting themselves into the film."

  "This is about a kind of life, a kind of sadness, the overthrowing of values. I guess I'm tossing out questions again, right? I've said before that I wanted to get rid of the distinctions between good and evil, between beauty and ugliness. This story centers on life and love. But love is not so terrific. It's…

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  Review by Moresbi ★★★½

  #24 - Korean New Wave from 2024 Asian Cinema Challenge

  Progress: 36/52

  #8 - Lies from Seoultember 2024

  Progress: 8/7

  "Fantasy does good, mentally and physically." 🪄🙂‍↕️

  "It's awkward." (That it is!) 😮🤐

  "My ass is killing me. But it's so great." 😅😏

  "Oh, my poor baby." 😂🤣

  "Gojitmal" aka "Lies" was "different", "sado-maso" (and kinky!) and... (some sort of self-expressed) "love" 😇

  The plot: "A sadomasochistic sexual relationship between a 38-year-old sculptor and an 18-year-old highschool student." Pretty much the movie, in a nutshell.
  Adapted from the banned novel "Tell me a Lie" by Jang Jung Il.

  Well... not sure if there was much of "acting" involved but Kim Tae-yeon was (an appealing and captivating) "Y", Sang Hyun Lee…

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  Review by SupremeLemon (지존레몬) ★★★★

  "Think of my dick as shit. That will make it easier."

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  Review by Grillo ★★★★½ 1

  Our bodies are profound. Together they bring us enlightenment. A film that breaks all dichotomies, a film about freedom, a film about looking past societies judgement and about fucking without judgement, judgement which turns sex into a perfunctory experience. A film that strives for that feeling after sex a film about that liberating feeling of being naked with someone else and taking that sensation someplace beyond. A film always on a barrier, existing on the borders of what is acceptable, even humane but Jang Sung-woo keeps you on the precipice, for the entire run-time you are teetering on the edge but the film never brings you over. And somehow, this is the magic and the genius of Jang Sung-woo, it turns into something so romantic that you feel any other romance is far from truthful like Road to the Racetrack a film worthy of the last romance.

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  Review by Chaitanya Krishna Raavi ★★★★ 4

  Why the fuck all the weird movies are made in 1999?

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  Review by kieran ★★★★ 2

  drank rye whiskey with the boys while watching this couple engage in coprophilia & whip each other with various homemade/locally sourced implements and i feel a little unmoored from the earth as a result. probably a good movie. has stuff to say about love and masochism. don’t trust me to tell you so on this one. at one point i called the dark void of the old sculptor’s penile area “the valley of the shadow of death”. eventually we were just aghast at the size of his balls. that’s all i got. she carves “my love” into his inner thigh with a dull knife. that’s pretty metal, dude.

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  Review by Outrage ★★★½

  Something to think about. Should be mentioned in the same sentence as something like Love and Pop or (especially) Tokyo Decadence. Anyways, here's some word vomit:

  It's an incredible story about passionate, overly dependent relationships which honestly made it difficult for me to avoid identifying with and humanizing these absolutely abhorrent and strangely motivated characters. It plays a lot with the sort of power dynamics conventionally associated with an age-gap relationship in that ultimately, the young party is able to move on and start a new life, whereas the old party remains too old and "stuck in the past".

  Normally, I'd be bitching and moaning about the poor sexist characterization of Y, the young female lead, because there's honestly not…

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  Review by jrhovind ★★½

  The enfant terrible of the Korean New Wave takes a suffocatingly hermetic deep-dive into one couple’s all-consuming sexual passions and emotional self-destructiveness. “Your script is about being possessed?” “Right, that’s the core of the film.” If J and Y – the one a frustrated middle-aged sculptor, the other a virginal student – instantly find something intoxicating in one another, it’s a shared disillusion with the social world, a wholesale rejection of its limits and borders and values. Which is fine, but the more their sex descends into bouts of beating and degradation and humiliation, I couldn’t help but both be immensely bored and still wonder what’s left each of them like this. “Tasting shit made my heart beat fast!” Which…

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  Review by Hank Bauer ★★★

  “I don’t care what people think; that’s how you get respect”

  So Lies is a controversial Korean film about a taboo masochistic sex relationship between a 38 year old man and an 18 year old girl. It pushes boundaries of the film rating boards, much like Pink Flamingoes, by showing full frontal nudity from both parties and what is basically non-simulated sex. 

  Upon starting the film, i had the feeling that this would just be an hour and a half of people having sex, that’s the point, and that’s it, but there’s actually a lot more to it than I was expecting.

  I thought it’d be hard to find a couple of perverts compelling, but this movie somehow makes that a…

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  Review by Kira

  how can you say you love her if you don't eat her poop?

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  Review by Adam

  which one of you brickhead ass fuckers thought of this gag