Friday, November 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM The Bow 활
Director: Kim Ki-duk
2005, 90 minutes
Cast: Jeon Sung-Hwan, Han Yeo-Reum, Seo Ji-Seok
Presented with The Korea Society
Location:
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
With a bow and arrow, a sixty-year old man protects the young girl he
plans to marry when she turns seventeen. She’s content with their life
on a fishing boat until a young man arrives and changes everything.
The Bow illustrates the Bhutanese proverb: “The arrow of divine beings with
absolute wisdom: it cannot be seen when shot, but can be seen when it
hits.”
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