Very best movie i ever watch

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I saw a review for this film in a newspaper and was really intrigued by it. I went to a Korean theater in downtown Los Angeles which I have never done before. A simple story, a man and his ox and his fussy wife but it was funny, sad, sweet and unforgettable because of the relationship between the old man and his animal. So many nuances in the film are brought out. The caginess of the old man...even the ox gets in on the action.....I am usually someone who can predict how films will turn out. This time, no way...I think that's why I enjoyed it so much. The beauty of the landscape, what a human being will do to maintain what it needs to survive...despite what anyone else says...Bring tissues, that's all I can say...what an experience. A ten.

A sweet if repetitive documentary. It's a simple observation of a man and his ox. Nothing more, nothing less. If you would find a man and his ox farming boring, then just don't watch it. The true heart of this film comes from the relationship between the man and his ox. The man works the ox incredibly hard, but treats him better than his own wife. This does raise questions as to where the mans heart truly lies. But it's that thankless dedication to each other that really hits home. Never asking from each other, and no understanding, just pure love. There are some wonderful moments, as the man takes his ox to market (as his wife demands) but then asks for $5,000. He is made fun of, and heckled, but he seems truly happy. It's also humbling to see how hard these rural people work, and how his work and his friendship with his ox, mean more than any amount of cash.

Saw this movie in a plane flying across the Pacific. A tender, soft, quiet movie that moved me to tears. Made me reminisce the relationship I have with people I know, how we take for granted the human relationship we have seen in the context of a farmer's relationship with his ox. It makes us think about the brief cycle of life, how the ending can be long drawn out and painful, how we can lessen and share other being's pains and sufferings. This movie was able to say so much with so few words. Temple Grandin tells us animals make us human; I would like to add animals make us gentle and loving, because not all humans can be gentle and loving.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I read how the film came about in an interview with the director. The director wanted to make a story about "forgotten father" and remembered his father, who worked with his ox all the time. He says the saddest thing in the world is not disappearing, but being forgotten. He had to awaken his father and the ox "sealed" in his childhood memories and wanted to bring the memories back to present. He was then searching for an old ox all over Korea and met the old man and the ox and started filming in 2005. This movie is a dedication to his father and all fathers who seem distant to their children. He wanted to depict such relationship (or lack thereof) in this film.