Arirang

"Cualesquiera que sean sus valores morales o sus problemas personales, las personas nunca pueden estar mucho tiempo juntas; porque cada uno tiene sus propios sueños, las creencias para elegir sus propios sueños y deseos." - Kim Ki-duk

"La gente es terrible. Yo les dí mi corazón (...) He sido apuñalado en el corazón y así he perdido la confianza." - Kim Ki-duk


"En mi vida hay sadismo, masoquismo y auto-tortura. Torturando a los demás, seremos los torturadores torturados." - Kim Ki-duk

"Los hombres se alimentan de incontables muertes: muertes de cerdos, de vacas, de pollos... nos alimentamos con la muerte de plantas y animales. Esto es inevitable para los hombres. ¿Por qué es tan triste? ¿Por qué la vida es tan triste y deprimente, todos los días?... Porque existo." - Kim Ki-duk

"Cómo puedo lanzarme preguntas a mí mismo, sin saber las respuestas." - Kim Ki-duk

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"During the time of beautiful yet cruel, tantalizing yet intense, and sad yet sweet cinematic imagination at work, I didn’t care for my life at all. While I drew out the tumultuous stories of the world in an even stronger, more painful, more heartbreaking, and more heartless ways, all the emotions eventually infected me like a virus. I became the saddest human being in the world gone over the wall, deluded that I am manipulating the world. At that moment... I couldn’t do anything. My films were made by my inferiority complexes." - Kim Ki-duk

"Through Arirang I climb over one hill in life.
Through Arirang I understand human beings, thank the
nature, and accept my life as it is now.
We are now…
in the terrestrial world lurking with desires,
in the ghostly world lurking with sorrow,
in the imaginary world lurking with dreams,
with no beginning nor end,
slowly going crazy.
What is affection that it still remains all around me decaying?
It’s still stuck to the crown of my head, testing my emotions.
It’s still hiding deep within my heart, testing my sense of
compassion.
If I didn’t give my heart, they would be bad people erased
from memories,
but if I gave my heart, I couldn’t let them go till the day that
I die as despicable people.
Ah…
Arirang
Alright
Let’s mercilessly kill each other in our hearts till we die.
Even today
I hold back as I get angry.
I laugh as I get jealous.
I love as I despise.
And forgive as I quiver with the urge to kill.
Wait,
I will kill
Myself, who remembers you."
- Kim Ki-duk