If there is anything worth discovering in this sad slog of a story, it is the two fierce performances by Cho Je-Hyun and Seo Won, who play the lovers and turn the harsh drama into a showcase for their pained expressions.
Bad Guy(나쁜 남자)
Korea · 2001
1h 40m
Director Kim Ki-duk
Starring Cho Jae-hyun, Seo Won, Kim Yun-tae, Choi Deok-moon
Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
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After Sun-Hwa rejects a mysterious and aggressive man on the street, she finds herself trapped into a life of prostitution by him as revenge. Forced to work in a seedy brothel as she pays off a debt, Sun-Hwa's world is ruptured by her new exposure to sex and depravity.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Certainly offbeat, but not on a level with director Kim's previous work about marginalized people.
The most emotionally satisfying pic to date by Korean iconoclast Kim Ki-duk.
The audience is subjected to a series of emotional contortions, encouraged to experience them voyeuristically, and then scolded for doing so. The bathetic music Kim favors is profoundly at odds with his chilly attitude toward the characters.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk does a bizarre riff on the twisted macho ethos of abusing women until they learn to love you.
Beautifully shot and lushly scored, this may be one of the least P.C. love stories ever filmed. But it's one of the most deeply felt.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Bad Guy, one of the seven films in Kim's fascinating back catalog, is another kind of cocktail--simple, bitter, served straight and in an unwashed glass.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Really, who needs a bad guy who's this guilty about being bad?
The film works best as a passionate tale of obsessive love, with two people brought together under harrowing circumstances.
Becomes more and more confused, unpleasant and preposterous.
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