vanmust An excellent movie in many aspects...a pimp gang leader obsessed with a beautiful student methodically destroys her innocense while secretly worshipping her....it plays with the idea of the Stockholm syndrome and time warping.....and allthough the end is presented to us it leaves us wondering if that "end" is the real one.....for me it should have ended in the last beach scene....where the clothes picking and the photo itself is fictitious with both heroes already passing into the afterlife (drowning + stubbed to death) while their spirits still wonder about interacting with each other

antosarmy I love foreign language movies, no matter where in the world they come from. I am especially drawn to Japanese Horror, Korean Drama and the South American Gangster genre. This movie is a South Korean Drama and it would have its critics in the Western World.Bad Guy is really about a guy who is not all bad and a girl who is kidnapped because she can't pay a money lender and is put on the game to suffer her retribution. The movie starts as a fairy story of a posh girl and her geek boyfriend meeting up. It quickly undergoes a dark twist before the girl is basically thrust upon the red light district and is basically raped into submission by passing punters.Probably the most unlikely part of the movie is when the girl actually falls for the leader of the hoods that put her on the street in the first place, a la Straw Dogs (a bit). She even stays on the game for him at the end of the movie, one would guess, to enable them to eat and travel...I feel this is an absorbing movie and is definitely worth a watch for those who have just under two hours to use. One could do worse than Bad Guy. I am left a little aghast at the twists and turns in the flick but overall, it is a good film with a sound plot - Which is not always the case with Korean Movies...

albertoveronese There's very little form of representation I'd like more than movies. I saw 'Bad Guy' by chance a few years ago. I had never heard of Kim Ki-Duk before,but just by watching few seconds into the film I started to think to myself – this film is real magic – And it is a real incantation every time I see it now. I enjoy movies, because they are a personal vision of a life through the eyes of an oneself, as in a mirror, which is a kind of an image of the one looking. If you are concerned with knowing, thinking and intend to know yourself, you look into this 'mirror' and it gives you an insight in how to measure yourself; dipped in dark, in an imminent move out, ready for take-off, like on a plane, for somewhere. Thank you Kim Ki-Duk.

William Hunt Kim Ki Duk's Bad Guy is a brilliant study of vanity, sexual obsession and moral. It tells the story of a pimp (Han-Ki) who forces a girl into prostitution out of revenge. Bad guy is dark, extremely emotional, violent and forces us to think. Many parts of the movie can be interpreted as a dreamlike, wish-fulfillment fantasy from the viewpoint of Han-Ki. The movie leaves many questions. Why does the pimp never speak? Why the voyeurism? Are Han-Ki's emotions hate or love and pain? What do the torn photo's mean? And the girl dressed in red, is it the heroine in the future (Karma) or is it someone from the past (Han-Ki's ex?)? There is always more under the surface than it seems with Kim Ki Duk's movies, this movie demands multiple views to understand how brilliant it is. Watching Bad Guy is like entering an emotional roller coaster. It challenges all conventional ideas we have about love. Watch it with an open mind and U will have a very powerful experience.