Original Title: Akmareul boatda
Directed by: Ji-woon Kim
If you try to do some revenge to a certain person, will you become the one you hate? This film pose that serious question with extreme gore and violence not suitable even for adults who have a weak heart or those who used to listen to Phil Collins all day long.
My suggestion that if you hate seeing blood and decapitated bodies, don't watch this. The film started as an innocent woman raped, murdered and decapitated by Kyung-Chul (Choi Min-sik) who attacks her as she wait for towing car to tow her car.
The fiancée of this victim, Kim Soo-hyeon (Byung-hun Lee) happens to be a secret agent of some kind and as he found out that her fiancee already in pieces try to track down the murderers all by himself. He 'visit' each suspect and brutally tortures them until he finally met the last suspect, Kyung-Chul, which he finally conclude, from the evidence he gathered that Kyung is the one responsible for his fiancee's death.
But as Kim tortures Kyung-Chul and almost killed him he decided to play a cat and mouse game with Kyung by implanting a tracking device in Kyung. He let Kyung go but follows him religiously and tortures Kyung again whenever he had the chance and each torture is getting more brutal.
The game changes when Kyung knows about the tracking device and turns to hunt Kim's loved ones. Now Kim has to become the monster to fight the monster.
The magnitude of the violence is too much here, you need to listen to Super Junior happy songs to dilute it. However these gore violence seems to have a point that revenge; the colder and brutal it gets, will get you nowhere , eat you from the inside and will make you almost as the same as the one you hate.
This is gore orgy that travels between moral and ethical borderline back and forth and sometimes if you feel you had enough you can feel the pointlessness of the gore in this film. Like I said, this is not for everyone. But if you have survived Oldboy from Chan Woo Park, you can survive this.
There are some fascinating scenes, like when Kyung fights two other bad guys in a cab and the camera revolves around the cab unedited, remind me of the car scene in Children of Men.
Directed by: Ji-woon Kim
If you try to do some revenge to a certain person, will you become the one you hate? This film pose that serious question with extreme gore and violence not suitable even for adults who have a weak heart or those who used to listen to Phil Collins all day long.
My suggestion that if you hate seeing blood and decapitated bodies, don't watch this. The film started as an innocent woman raped, murdered and decapitated by Kyung-Chul (Choi Min-sik) who attacks her as she wait for towing car to tow her car.
The fiancée of this victim, Kim Soo-hyeon (Byung-hun Lee) happens to be a secret agent of some kind and as he found out that her fiancee already in pieces try to track down the murderers all by himself. He 'visit' each suspect and brutally tortures them until he finally met the last suspect, Kyung-Chul, which he finally conclude, from the evidence he gathered that Kyung is the one responsible for his fiancee's death.
But as Kim tortures Kyung-Chul and almost killed him he decided to play a cat and mouse game with Kyung by implanting a tracking device in Kyung. He let Kyung go but follows him religiously and tortures Kyung again whenever he had the chance and each torture is getting more brutal.
The game changes when Kyung knows about the tracking device and turns to hunt Kim's loved ones. Now Kim has to become the monster to fight the monster.
The magnitude of the violence is too much here, you need to listen to Super Junior happy songs to dilute it. However these gore violence seems to have a point that revenge; the colder and brutal it gets, will get you nowhere , eat you from the inside and will make you almost as the same as the one you hate.
This is gore orgy that travels between moral and ethical borderline back and forth and sometimes if you feel you had enough you can feel the pointlessness of the gore in this film. Like I said, this is not for everyone. But if you have survived Oldboy from Chan Woo Park, you can survive this.
There are some fascinating scenes, like when Kyung fights two other bad guys in a cab and the camera revolves around the cab unedited, remind me of the car scene in Children of Men.
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