The characters in Kim’s films are the social marginal and outcasts excluded from a main- stream society. They seem not to repeat their past and can not be the role discovered from modern paradigm either, coming to become a self-praxis practitioner participating and creating different here and now. Therefore, the characters, plot lines, and temporality are depicted in the cinematic narratives for Kim all of which belong to an inventive instead of a duplicated role, a little narrative, and a present discourse pinpointing at creating provisional truth.
For Kim, time depicted in the cinematic temporality is a prolongation progressing in a cut-off action linking a cut-off action with a constant dynamics without revealing the linear nexus in stringing a series of events from their commencements to ends. There is no connection between narrative places in Kim’s films which merely randomly, coincidentally and unforeseeably merge each other together imbedded with the linguistic system of scission without presenting the panorama of an entire narrative map linked through a chain of cause and effect. The spatial representation in the some parts of film has also been replaced by the creative truth in the land art.
Moreover, his non-modern narrative structure, non-spatial representation of modernity, non-duplicated modern paradigm, non-ethical and dehumanized and dystopian text in describing social life also make Kim’s films catch the international gaze.
All above discourses express why I employ postmodern theory to analyze Kim, KI-Duk’s film,” Samaritan Girl” and hopefully it can make the prominent contribution to a deep analysis of film text.