Tradition faces modernity, is necessarily one better than the other? Does the girl really want to be saved? The old man may have saved an abandoned six years girl and grew her, but is he entitled to marry her and continue to control her life, to keep her isolated from the world. There is a lot to think about and discuss around this story. But this is what she wants? This is certainly not what the old man wants, he plans to marry her when she reaches the age of 17. Some other may come with better intents, as the young man who falls for the girl and tries to save and take her back to the world.
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Some of them would like to abuse her but she and her protector know how to defend themselves with the help of the only weapon at hand, a traditional bow. The only contact of the girl with the outer world is when visitors come for recreational fishing aboard, visitors from the outer world that that she may not remember. The Old Man (Seong Hwan-jeon) is growing for the last ten years a Young Girl (beautiful Han Yeo-reum). So for viewers of some of his previous films, there is a strong and possibly intentional feeling of 'deja-vu', enhanced by the fact that as the story here happens in an isolated environment surrounded by water. Part of the problem with The Bow is that it repeats to some extent the format of the some of the previous successful films, taking a story of child-teenage initiation and mixing it with traditional (Buddhist I believe, but I am not very knowledgeable) concepts.
Hopefully he has in front of him many years of fine film making and we are here to enjoy his films. Of course, one cannot expect even from a great director like Kim (and he is one of the best living creators in cinema) to produce only masterpieces.
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Now I caught up with the film on VoD and my impression is that it marks exactly the moment when the Korean director started a series of less successful experiments. I have somehow missed seeing it when it came out, or maybe it was not distributed in Israel. and Spring', 'Samaritan Girl' and '3-Iron' and a few year after his other masterpiece 'The Isle'. 'The Bow' comes in the work of prolific Kim Ki-duk immediately after a series of three wonderful films - 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Reviewed by dromasca 7 / 10 moral ambiguity When the teenager discovers that the girl was abducted when she was six and does not know the world, he returns to the vessel to bring the girl back to her parents.-Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil They live happily until the day that a teenage student comes to the ship and the girl feels attracted to him. He also uses the bow and arrows to protect the girl against sexual assault of the fishermen. He survives bringing fishermen to fish in the vessel and predicting the future using his bow and shooting arrows in a Buddhist painting on the hull of the vessel while the girl moves back and forth in a swing.
A sixty and something year old captain has been raising for ten years a girl since she was six in his old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore with the intention of marrying her on her seventeenth birthday.
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