let me set the stage . i love well craft art house drama and romance from east asia . christmas in august ( 1998 ) and one fine spring day ( 2001 ) and spring summer fall winter and spring ( 2003 ) and asako in ruby shoe ( 2000 ) and rule of date ( 2005 ) and art museum by the zoo ( 1998 ) and and most of yasujiro ozu film be very enjoyable to me . add another 50 or so similar film to that recommendation list and and one could be forgive to conclude that i not only like deliberately pace and slow burn art house cinema and but i be actually a big fan of the genre . to date i have see four of sang soo hong film and one thing be certain represent the artistic merit of virgin strip bare by her bachelor ( 2000 ) be a fluke of sort within hong otherwise unimpressive portfolio that tread dangerously close to mirror something you would see on cinemax late night . a half dozen sex scene . check . complete absence of character development . check . dull a dirt filler material . check . in all honesty and there very little ( if anything ) that distinguish hong film from tummy stick fests . take turn gate a an example . a guy meet a girl and bang her senseless and then stop see her . the same guy later meet another girl and bang her senseless and then stop see her . the film end . i be not exaggerate when i say that this summary adequately cover any and all content this movie have to offer . you may wonder how on earth the running time clock in at 115 minute . i will tell you . the character walk around a lot and wait for cab and and participate in some of the most boring conversation to ever grace celluloid . the whole point of minimalization in film making be to recreate the charming and intriguing scenario that occupy everyday life while avoid the uninteresting staleness surround those moment ( watch an ozu film if you can not get your head around this concept ) . for instance and the relationship with my first girlfriend could provide enough content for an interesting film and but a director be misguide if he think that show me on the toilet for five minute be go to provide any sort of entertainment value . will someone please inform tsai ming liang of this . now and hong be not quite as bad a tsai . he close and but turn gate isn not quite the abhorrent masterpiece of trashiness that viva lamour ( 1994 ) be . both director do make significant contribution to laundry film make though which mean that their focus on realism give these hack a free pas to make movie that be completely devoid of content or insight . for me personally and watch people pick each other up and bang be the equivalent of watch someone do their laundry . hong only good film virgin strip bare by her bachelor keep me interested in the hunt for two hour and which be something you can not say for his other and less effort . let me offer a psychoanalysis of the type of person who will like this film and the title of which should probably be change from turn gate to something like an ode to a meaningless life . if you have have a dozen or so one night stand and wish to reminiscence about the good ole day and then you will probably like this movie . i have personally try to minimize the number of meaningless relationship in my life and so maybe i lack the prerequisite in experience sexual degeneracy to the point that i can not appreciate the meaningless relationship present in this movie . if the director actually give me some content to help me understand why these people live this way and how that lifestyle affect them and then i would surely enjoy it more . one fine spring day and for example and do a wonderful job of show the emotional roller coaster of a typical relationship from begin to end . unfortunately and turn gate ( as well a most of hong other movie ) be so devoid of content that the only people that will enjoy this movie be those who say to themselves and man and i yearn to remember the day when i bang a different person every week with no string attach . don not misunderstand me . i love film with sex and but i need something interesting or intrigue to keep me engage . strange circus ( 2005 ) have copious amount of explicit sex and but it have psychological concept behind them . ardor ( 2002 ) and the isle ( 2000 ) and and a few of the positively aforementioned film all have some steamy sex in them and but there be enough content that raise the experience above playboy channel trash . hong venture into that trashy realm far too often . to close and i would like to also communicate my displeasure with other reviewer who have impose informative psychological content into the film when the filmmaker himself fail to do so . i read statement like and it be a transposition of life and with all it ambiguity and it unaccomplished desire and it eternal quest or every single spoken word have a special meaning and think to myself and how the hell be any of this communicate through this film . it a double edge sword and i be afraid . if someone be willing to project that much meaning into turn gate and then you surely must give a movie like show girls the same consideration . after watch over 1 and 000 east asian film i have be able to identify the type of movie that be a waste of time . the exploitation genre ( e. g. and the untold story or kichiku dai enkai ) be one example . art house cinema be full of trap and because amongst the many amazing film within this genre there be some truly inept flop that be so unambitious and mind numbingly awful that one simply can not avoid an occasional pitfall here or there . i resent director like hong who entice me with one good entry and only to then clobber me over the head with three steam pile of pig manure .