After watching "The Empty Room" twice, I have no clue. I don't know what the director is talking about. Maybe this is also the disadvantage of not using dialogue. Simply using the camera lens will make the film obscure. But on the third time, I watched it very carefully and carefully, so I found some clues.
The male protagonist is a dispatcher without a place to live. For the first time, he came to a family of three. The family of three has a car and a house, and also went on vacation. Obviously, he is not in the same world as the poor character like the male protagonist. The second time I went to a real rich family with a garage, a yard, and a rich game of golf. The third time was a photographer's home, and the director specially gave an elevation angle to the building where the photographer's room is located. Moreover, there is a video phone on the doorbell, and he went abroad to collect wind. Obviously, he is barely able to rank among the rich. The fourth time was the home of the boxer. The athlete who has won many awards is obviously not an ordinary person.
But at Boxer's house, the hero and heroine got a beating. The fifth time after that, I came to a small courtyard. I carefully looked at the environment of the small courtyard, the old-fashioned wooden door, and in the alley, it was obviously an alley where cars could not pass, and it was obviously not a rich man. The sixth time, it seems that it is easy to judge that it is a slum.
Synthesizing this information, it can be found that an important content that the film wants to express is the contradiction between the poor and the rich. The male protagonist goes to the rich man's room at first, and then helps him fix things, but he always does bad things accidentally. The repaired gun wounded the hostess of the house, and the golf ball wounded the woman sitting in the passenger seat of the luxury car. These are the conflicts between the male protagonist and the others. It can be understood as the contradiction between the rich and the poor in Korean society.
The heroine's rich husband colluded with the police, bought the police with money, and beat the hero. In fact, it is Kim Ki-duk's bitter satire on the society in which South Korea lives. This is a society where everyone loves money. Everyone is enslaved by money and loses their families and lives.
The few rich people's rooms that the male protagonist went to at the beginning actually hinted that people's nature exists in their hearts and pursues a rich life. However, people in Korean society are gradually enslaved by the pursuit of prosperity.
And the result of being enslaved by it is the loss of family, life, and happiness. Here I think the director is satirizing the degeneration of the concept of family in Korean society. Home is no longer like home. It is not a happy place, a place to reunite, enjoy, and relax. Instead, it is depression, quarrels, emptiness, loneliness, and even loneliness. die. At home, kids and boys don't play with toy pistols, beauty-loving women don't use scales anymore, the photographer doesn't keep track of the time, and boxers don't listen to music at home anymore. And only the kind-hearted family of Xiaoyuan has nothing to repair. In fact, the broken things represent a broken family relationship. Every time the actor goes to someone's house to mend a relationship, he is actually repairing a relationship, but Koreans do not realize the change in this relationship and life The crisis that exists in it cannot be accepted or understood. And that's one of the things that makes the male protagonist so special.
Based on this, I think Director Kim Ki-duk must have seen the huge crisis in Korean society, so he created this movie to wake up the Koreans at that time, and he also knew that the ignorant Koreans in Korean society at that time might not be able to understand him. , so he gave the male protagonist a third eye, and also gave himself a third eye, and warned Koreans, "Eyes can only let you see the incomplete world, please open your heart and take a look."
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