Bad Guy

Bad Guy

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Following the motifs of his film “Address Unknown”, director Ki-duk Kim, in his new feature, “Bad Guy”, finds himself in Seoul’s red-light district continuing to uncover the hidden sores of contemporary Korean society. “Bad Guy” tells a story of a man who fell in love with a girl at first sight, and entrapped her into a life of prostitution. The controversial epilogue of “Bad Guy” is a synthesis of audacity and beauty. Ki-duk Kim explains that the closing scene of the film depicts a new world found by the lead characters after rejecting their former lives: she renounced the false middle-class values, he the no less deceptive romanticism of the criminal world.In his new feature, Ki-duk Kim keeps to his characteristic style, offering the viewer a new kind of eroticism, probing the very depths of human instincts. Just like all his previous works, “Bad Guy” provokes most heated debates and arguments, putting both viewers and critics in opposing camps. Perhaps it is this controversial response to his work that allows Ki-duk Kim to develop as director.Yet, notwithstanding Ki-duk Kim’s previous sensational films, “Bad Guy” seems to provoke the most disagreement. At the International Film Festival in Pusan, the response to the film ranged from open admiration (“his best work so far”) to outright accusations. When after the film’s screening all the audience were given posters, some of the female viewers had torn them in a fit of rage. Will the cinematic community be able to forgive Ki-duk Kim for his “Bad Guy”?Ki-duk Kim: “Everyone wants to be born in a good environment, to live and die with dignity. But something might happen in life that will dawn on you without any warning. Other people’s acts may overturn your life and you’ll get used to it against your will. In 2001, in that crazy city, despite all my efforts to keep myself in check, I was surprised to find out that I also lived like a “bad guy”. The film’s lead character is a man who was born to radiate trouble. A man of darkness… one who is destroying a woman’s life, and looks quite innocent at that. His actions are so cruel that he looks like the devil. I prefer to call it fate.”

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