From nytimes.com/2007/09/30/movies/30lim.html
“Shin-ae is always looking up and never at the ground,” Mr. Lee said, pointing out a recurring motif. The film opens with a wide shot of the sky and concludes with the camera trained on a patch of earth. “I wanted to show that the meaning of life is not far from where we are,” he said. “It’s not up there. It’s here, in our actual life.”
I couldn't see what Lee was doing and I can't imagine many did either. It wasn't very hard to understand the symbolism of Shin-ae cutting her own hair but the last shot was a mistake, imo, with Lee doing a disservice to his film. I suppose the issue could be a cultural one, with Koreans grasping that last shot without a problem, but I tend to doubt that.
Good film, imo, but too slow for its length and a last shot that was unnecessarily perplexing. Other, clearer ways were available for Lee to make his point.
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