Master provocateur Kim Ki-Duk did it again. A movie that made people vomit during its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, that divides its audience in lovers and haters and that will have a cult following in some years. For some reason it felt like watching Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void: I was incredibly fascinated and couldn't turn my eyes off the screen, but at the same time I was so happy when the end credits started rolling. Still in doubt about how I feel about Moebius, I can say one thing for sure: this is a film I never have to see again. I'm glad I did, but it's an experience not worth repeating. Why not? A woman catches her man cheating on her with another woman (played by the same actress). She wants to take revenge and cut off her husband's penis. Failing to do this, she cuts off the penis of their son. Wrecked by guilt, the father offers his penis to his son by transplant. In the meanwhile, the son "raped" the woman his father had an affair with (as I said, who is played by the same actress as his mother, see what Ki-Duk did there?). Once the transplantation is complete, the son begins to get sexually aroused by his mother and vice versa. Seeing this, the father wants to cut off his son's penis yet again, but fails. Eventually he kills his wife and himself. While telling this sickening Freudian nightmare, Ki-Duk refuses to let his actors speak one word (there's no dialogue in this movie) and adds some knife-in-shoulder masturbating to take it all just one step further. Yes, you really need to have the stomach for it. Unfortunately, Ki-Duk forgets to make an interesting visual movie (unlike Noé's Enter the Void) and thereby doesn't reach the bourgeois public he intends to insult and provoke. But still... This movie is unlike anything you've ever seen. Try it.

This movie is an experiment. it respects modern parameters, image and sound, but minimizes expressing pain, externalization: characters communicate, but they don't articulate language, they don't need it as a tool, as an aesthetic concept of the whole film. The story seems to resemble to a bloody Greek or Shakespearian tragedy: the hybris happens and, though you hope for a good remedy, everything ends in a blood bath. SPOILER!Plot: The sin of the Father is passed onto the Son, through the murderous hands of the Mother. Mother punishes the innocent Son, cutting off his manhood, instead of Father's, like she wanted in the first place, but couldn't. The sin aggravates, building up on another and another, culminating with incest, death may be a solution to the perpetrators. Another meaning is that, like the mathematical theory in the title, what may seem the earthly gruesome end for something, can be the sure way to a better holy knowledge that comes with a price. Removing (forever) the object of pleasure and procreation, may conduct to clearer thinking. But, after all, you can have throughout the whole movie, a strong feeling of forced, moralizing, didacticism.

Possible spoilers: Be Warneed I am also a big fan of Mr. Kim's past work, but I try not to let that influence the viewing of a new work. It's easy to dismiss the "no dialogs" element of this film as an easier play on the International Film Festival circuit; however, there's nothing "easy" about watching this film. This is straight up Greek Tragedy Korean style. It begins with "Medea" hurting the child to get at the cheating husband and ends with "Oedipus Rex" in very disturbing realism. Even the end violence happens offstage - sot to speak. But that's only the template. Kim's exploration of our relationship with masculinity and the actual male penis would probably boggle Freud's mind. It's painful to watch and the reversal of imagery where a rape victim uses a knife (phallic symbol) to give sexual pleasure is genius, if not completely whacko. This is NOT a movie for everyone, so negative reviews may abound, and I think that's fine. But slamming a movie for not having dialog's? When's the last time anyone told a story this well without using words? Many have forgotten that film is a visual medium! Thanks Mr. Kim for reminding us that sometimes NOT speaking can add so much more tension to a narrative. Honestly, I'll probably never watch this film again...it disturbed me that much, but I do not deny its intrinsic appeal to our sexual relationships that get perverted along the way and its Greek allusions. And that smile at the end...genius.

If you want safe go elsewhere. Anything approaching a normal film American family drama go elsewhere. If you want anything that isn't offensive go elsewhere.The easiest and least exploitative way to explain the plot is to say a couple is having martial difficulties which explodes and ends up crippling the son. Where the film goes from there is the film.(Spoilers follow)Actually where the film goes from there involves castration,rape,incest, masochism ,violence, murder, and riffs on the legendary films PERCY and PERCY's PROGRESS. There are more twists and turns than any sane mind would make. Oh and did I mention there is no dialog in the entire film?How is it?I have no idea. Horrifying? Silly? Strange? I was staring at the screen in disbelief even while I was laughing at the proceedings. Its a whacked out mix of things that kind of almost works and kind of almost doesn't. Its a bold attempt at doing something.I don't think its successful- but it is interesting in a kind of road accident sort of a way.Should you see it?If you like the real off beat and don't mind disturbing things give it ago. On the other hand if you're sensitive or easily offended stay away.