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Cobweb
A frantic, candy-colored backstage farce curdling into feverish melancholy, where one filmmaker's obsession tangles everyone around him like flies in silk, and a soundstage becomes a spider's web of ego and fear.
Cobweb
Cobweb

거미집

"In 1970s Korea, when both art and dreams are censored, a film director dreams of a masterpiece."

27 September 2023 South Korea 135 min 6.5 (114)

Director: Kim Jee-woon

Cast: Song Kang-ho, Lim Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se, Jeon Yeo-been, Krystal Jung

Drama Comedy Obsession with creating a masterpiece Censorship and authoritarian control Authenticity, plagiarism and guilt Collective creation and ensemble struggle Life as a web
Box Office: $126

Cobweb — Movie Quotes

Memorable Quotes

이틀이면 걸작이 나온다
— Director Kim

Context

Kim says this while pitching the reshoot. This line is a Korean rendering of the English subtitle "All I need is two days!", so the Korean wording is approximate.

Meaning

The film's driving delusion: that a masterpiece is only two days away.

A masterpiece!
— Director Kim

Context

Variety notes he frequently declares it while pushing for the new ending.

Meaning

His repeated declaration, which becomes a running gag about ambition outrunning reality.

Criticism is an act of revenge by those who can't make art.
— Director Kim

Context

Given in internal monologue as quoted in an English-language review; the Korean original wording was not retrieved.

Meaning

It reveals his wounded pride against the critics who call him a hack.

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