if i can spare at least one fan of kim ki duk other film from waste their time on this sub par offering and then my work here be do . time be perhaps the director most straightforward film and which isn not necessarily a bad thing and but in this case the lack of complexity and hyperrealism find in some of his good film make this one a failure by comparison . time make some fairly obvious statement about identity and jealousy and attachment ( a oppose to real and true love . ) no doubt some viewer ( especially those unfamiliar with the director other work ) will find these statement deep and move ( and the fairly pat and predictable narrative easy to follow . ) the director be nonetheless an artful cinematographer and this film be not without it charming scene and symbolic and visual merit . however and compare to the complex and cerebral and occasionally magical dramatic presentation of film like the isle and 3 iron and this offering from kim fall miserably short .