The Isle Review

Name: The Isle Review
Item: The Isle
Rating: 80
Author: screenqueeen

Review of The Isle (2000) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

HE HAS RISEN: CARPEASTER 1.0 DAY 4 OF 13

The silence and pacing hypnotize you into believing exactly what you see like on the surface of the water. The earnest relationship that unfolds between Hee-Jin and Hyun-Shik fools you into trusting everyone too much. The imagery and slow static shots bring Tarkovsky's SOLARIS to mind (and some of its themes as well) where the outside world is an impossibility to return to. The power plays between Hee-Jin and Hyun-Shik are demonically brilliant in that only one can care for the other. It's a quiet, sadistic masterpiece