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Bad Guy

Nabbeun namja (Bad Guy)

2001

Kim Ki-duk

Cho Jae-yun, Seo Won, Kim Yun-tae, Choi Duek-mun ...

6.3

1,413

Thriller. Drama A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can’t pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the chance to escape she realizes she cannot return to her former life.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Mark Stevens BBC	"Dark, bizarre and suffused with a strange sentimentality, Kim Ki-duk's film is quite a curious little feature (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ned Martel The New York Times	"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"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Really, who needs a bad guy who’s this guilty about being bad?"	NEG
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"'Bad Guy' reps the most emotionally satisfying pic to date by Korean iconoclast Kim Ki-duk (...) It’s certainly Kim’s tightest and most coherent movie"	POS
United States	Hank Sartin Chicago Reader	"The audience is subjected to a series of emotional contortions, encouraged to experience them like a voyeur, and then scolded for doing so"	NEG
United States	G. Allen Johnson SFGATE	"The film is filled with lovely images (...) and ultimately becomes, against all expectations, quite moving."	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"[It] requires an unreasonable suspension of disbelief, and its final portrait of happy pimp-whore bliss in the back of a makeshift brothel-on-wheels is so preposterous as to be just plain bad (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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