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Bad Guy Cast: Jo Jae-hyeon, Seo Weon Director: Kim Ki-duk RunTime: 102 minutes (aprox.) Genre: Drama Language: English (audio) Subtitles: no Region: REGION-FREE DVD, PAL (DVD & TV must be PAL system) Picture: . Korean director Kim Ki-duk's film begins with Han-ki (Jo Jae-hyeon), the leader of a gang of street thugs who patrol a Seoul red light district, becoming infatuated with Sun-hwa (Seo Weon), a college girl he glimpses in another part of the city. When he tries to force a kiss on her he is beaten up by her boyfriend, and his obsession takes an ugly turn. After discovering that she isn't as innocent as he originally thought, he finds a way to force her into prostitution on the street where he works. Her painful initiation becomes fodder for his voyeuristic impulses, and an uneasy, wholly unconventional relationship develops between them. REVIEW: Kim Ki-duk, one of the most original Korean directors to emerge in the 1990s, makes films that are both brutal and dreamlike. He most well-known films, such as The Isle and Address Unknown, mix visual poetry with cruel, unflinching violence. Bad Guy, his most popular film to date, ups the ante by depicting, in excruciating detail, the physical and psychological degradation of a young woman (Seo Weon) forced into prostitution by the street thug who becomes infatuated with her. The thug, Han-ki (Jo Jae-hyeon), is mute. The only language he speaks is violence, and the film seems to imply that watching Sun-hwa's transformation from ordinary student to ruined streetwalker is a twisted form of love. Kim spares nothing in his depiction of the brutality inflicted on her. Han-ki watches her endure the abuse of clients and her madame through a one-way mirror until a kind of Stockholm Syndrome develops and she comes to need him almost as much as he needs her. Bad Guy is, needless to say, a disturbing film, made all the more disturbing by Kim's refined aesthetic sense, which makes it difficult to dismiss as an exercise in transgressive naughtiness. Its images stick, and depending on the viewer, its ending can be read as either uneasily poignant or outrageously offensive.. We do not sell copies, bootleg, or DVD-R. Item was circulated in Greece. Full movie in promotional sleeve. WE DO NOT ACCEPT RETURNS DUE YOUR EQUIPMENT INCOMPATIBILITY NO RETURNS WILL BE ACCEPT DUE NO CAREFULLY READING OF THE ITEM DESCRIPTION ADVD1141
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