People are voting emotionally.

Fantastic!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I gotta give it to the makers of 'The Isle'. Really, they should get a 10 for originality because there are quite a lot of things you'll see here that, I assure you, exists in no other film.At the risk of ruining the element of surprise for you I won't say what you'll see; suffice it to say, this film is worth your attention because watching it feels like you're peeking into a world quite unlike any you've seen on Earth. That's the feeling I got, anyway, like it was a surreal movie filmed on Jupiter and exported down here to us.I get this feeling that the makers actually sat down and said, "You know what? Cinema is redundant these days. There's nothing original anymore. All the dramas are the same. All the thrillers are the same. All the horrors are carbon copies of each other. Let's go out of our way to present something, with the limited budget we have, that an audience has never seen before." And they succeeded.Again, I'm not giving anything away other. The film, as presented, is absolutely sublime. The cinematography alone is worth the price of admission; everything else you see on screen is just icing on the cake. Definitely one of the best Korean films ever.

The film gives you that heavy, unexplainable, load after watching. There's not much child-friendly scenes going on, and that's what made me love this. There's cruelty and profanity everywhere, with the injection of, on its face, irrelevant scenes which were either intentionally placed to stir our brains, or were unintentionally left by a director who lacked ideas. I have to believe its the former.The Isle actually made me laugh, because the scenes were just so explicit, overt and straightforward that I can't help but be amazed at Kim's confidence. I honestly can't believe he had the guts to do all those stuff. He takes the risk to employ moral and social taboos in his films and that's what I like about him. He doesn't hold back just to please everyone.The story isn't messy, too. There's room for interpretations but the movie still gave away its own essence. Actually, if you were to summarize the story, you can do it in a sentence or two. What made the movie complex is Kim's approach. I think he failed on his approach in 3-iron but he was successful this time. Perhaps because he coursed through the more understandable route--hit what you wan't to say in your movie without lingering, but do it painfully straight to scar the viewer--that's what he did! I think any social and moral controversy you can think of can be found in this movie..rape, prostitution, poverty, animal cruelty, torture, lust, murder, name it. It's all here.I can totally understand how some scenes probably scared and scarred a lot of viewers. And I can totally understand how some might view him as a provocateur. I, on the other hand, believe otherwise. The movie might not be accommodating to those who have weak stomachs, but there lies the beauty of this film.The Isle won't bore you, because its either the explicit sex scenes will hold your attention, or the previous metal-eating, vomit-inducing, scene still consumes your thoughts. This for me, is a timeless masterpiece.

First of all. I don't care enough about all the animal violence portrait in this film to let it change my opinion. So i'll drop that. Animal cruelty is in fact used as a mirrors for showing the suffering of the several characters. It' still not OK, though.Also the physical violence is not so shocking, considering that there are "worse" (asian and not) films around. The violence in this film is shocking though, because the carnal gore is combined with the much deeper psychic violence the characters inflict each other. Also the massive amount of slapstick make actions even more cruel. I laughed quite a lot during the movie, and by doing so i realized that the scenes sometimes were just not acted as if they were intended to be funny. Laughing for me in that precise moment was often more a relief than a expected reaction. Maybe the director used this to mask or soften an unbearable violence, maybe even to make the viewer feel guilty by confusing the borders between comedy and drama. I think comedy is partly used to make pure dramatic moments even more intense and sometimes to make the viewer doubt if it was intended sarcastically in the first place.Sometimes though funny moments were so plain, that i had serious doubts if i schould take the film seriously in the first place. SPOILER: 2 hooks taken out of the keepers vagina form a hearth END OF SPOILERAnyways in my opinion a very intense, pessimistic movie. Which can shock with its exaggerated violent scenes, and which sometimes cross the border to grotesque. Surely it will make you doubt and think.

There isn't much I feel I can say about this movie. It is beautiful, yet boring; metaphoric, yet obvious; brutal, yet gentle. It combines many of the classic story lines in a weird and outworldy way.Basically, it is a movie about love, but the people involved are introverted tortured individuals. I believe that the title points to the way each character in the movie is an island of its own, a metaphor that is laid out in the physical world as rental floating cabins on a lake, and the girl that services this world is some sort of very dark mermaid.However, I feel that it goes too arty for my tastes. Between the occasional feelings of nausea, horror, pity and anxiety, there are long periods of boredom. I can hardly identify with most of the characters, as they belong to an underground world that I am not part of.Bottom line: a movie for Asian fans, for Kim Ki Duk fans, for movie art fans.