Bad Guy (2001 film)

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Bad Guy
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Bad Guy movie poster
Hangul
나쁜 남자
Hanja
나쁜 男 子
Revised Romanization Nappeun namja
McCune–Reischauer Nappŭn namja
Directed by Kim Ki-duk
Written byKim Ki-duk
Produced byLee Seung-jae
Starring Cho Jae-hyun
Seo Won
CinematographyHwang Chul-hyun
Edited byHahm Sung-won
Music byPark Ho-jun
Distributed by CJ Entertainment
Release dates
Running time
100 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$1 million

Bad Guy is a South Korean film by director Kim Ki-duk about a man who traps a woman into prostitution, then becomes protective of her. The film was controversial for its frank portrayal of gangsters, prostitution, and sexual slavery, but also was a minor box office hit as its release coincided with a burgeoning audience interest in its male lead and director.

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In the bookstore Sun-hwa tears a page with this painting by Egon Schiele from an art book. Egon Schiele 016.jpg
In the bookstore Sun-hwa tears a page with this painting by Egon Schiele from an art book.

A young lady named Sun-hwa is sitting on a bench when an unusual man comes and sits by her side. She realizes that he is constantly looking at her and walks away, irritated. Her boyfriend comes and while they are talking, the silent man grabs and forcefully kisses her. Her boyfriend tries to pull him away to no avail. When he stops, the woman demands an apology. He starts walking and some soldiers among the crowd that gathered due to the spectacle beat and restrain him. The woman insults him and spits on his face. He remains silent.

Later, the woman is shopping in a bookstore where we see her tear a page from an art book about Egon Schiele [1] she cannot afford to buy. She notices a wallet left on a book beside her and furtively tucks it into her purse, not knowing that it was planted by an associate of the man who kissed her. She hides in the toilet, takes all the money out of the wallet and leaves the store. She is accosted by the owner of the wallet, who demands his stolen wallet, claiming it had 10 million won (the rough equivalent of US$10,000) in it. As the wallet didn't contain that much money she is unable to give it to him, and he proposes a solution – a loan secured on her face and body. After a short time, she is unable to pay the loan shark and is at this point conveniently rescued by the silent man.

She is forcefully taken to a small brothel where she is to work, never leaving until her debt is paid.

She asks the madam for permission to see her boyfriend so that she can give her virginity to him, but when the boyfriend does not respond, the silent man attacks the boyfriend in their car. Adjustment to her new life is hard and her innocence is quickly taken away. The silent man, a pimp enforcer named Han-gi, watches her through the one-way mirror installed in her room. When she later sees him and recognizes him, she realized that he is the one who trapped her in this life and she attacks him.

One of the silent man's fellow pimps also develops a crush on the woman, paying to sleep with her and apologizing for ruining her life. She convinces him to help her escape, then he pulls the iron bars from her window and she sneaks away. Her freedom is short-lived, however, as the silent man finds her (through ingenious use of a T-shirt) and seizes her, taking her back to the brothel. First, though, he takes her to a beach, where they witness a woman committing suicide by drowning. In the sand the woman finds a torn-up photograph.

Back in the brothel the woman reconstructs the photo, taping it to her mirror; she has all of the pieces except the faces of the couple it depicts.

An attack by a rival nearly kills the silent man, but when he returns from the hospital he forbids any retaliation. One of his men kills his attacker anyway; Han-gi confesses to the police to save the man from execution. But the man for whom he has taken a fall is consumed by guilt and commits a crime so that he can be sent to the same prison. On the scheduled day of execution he escapes from his cell, finds the silent man, attacks him viciously, hen confesses everything to the guards, winning his boss's release.

Eventually the woman realizes that she is being spied upon in her room, smashing the mirror to reveal the silent man. It is revealed that the faces of the couple in the photograph are those of Han-gi and Sun-hwa. Han-gi pays the debt of the woman and she decides to stay with him, selling herself to fishermen in the back of a truck to earn them money. The film ends with them sitting by the waterfront, and then driving away, while the Swedish hymn "Blott en dag", written by Lina Sandell, is sung in Swedish in the background by Carola Häggkvist.

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References

  1. ↑ Mitsch, Erwin (1993). Egon Schiele (3rd ed.). Oxford: Phaidon. ISBN   0-7148-2862-9. OCLC   29374614.
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