I've never seen anything like this. I've seen a lifetime worth of movies and I've never seen a movie like this. I'm not talking about the blood or the violence, I've seen plenty of that. I've never seen... Let me ask you this:
If you had your way with the man who brutally murdered your pregnant fiance what would you do?
Soo-hyun's pregnant fiance was brutally murdered and unlike most of us, he had the resources to find the killer. You know what else he had? The time, energy, will, and desire to catch and release the killer as many times as possible with the killer being more physically damaged than the last. In most movies the bad guy is killed at the end. Even if his death is brutal, he dies and that's the end. In "I Saw the Devil" Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) did what many of us less merciful people would've done and he had just about the whole movie to do it.
Soo-hyun wanted to make Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) suffer. Kyung-chul was the very type of man who deserved to suffer endlessly. He was a sadistic sociopathic killer. Soo-hyun was doing a public service when he planted a tracking device on Kyung-chul and kept appearing to cause him more pain. His only mistake was not debilitating Kyung-chul more.
"I Saw the Devil" was dark, twisted, menacing, gut-wrenching, and awesome. It takes you down a dark path that many of us may have mentally wandered, but never gone. The dark sordid path "I Saw the Devil" took us down felt right and just, but it wasn't without consequence. This movie jars you, sickens you, riles you up, and makes you powerfully mad. I can only imagine the twisted look on my face while watching. You have to like a movie that can do such things to you.
If you had your way with the man who brutally murdered your pregnant fiance what would you do?
Soo-hyun's pregnant fiance was brutally murdered and unlike most of us, he had the resources to find the killer. You know what else he had? The time, energy, will, and desire to catch and release the killer as many times as possible with the killer being more physically damaged than the last. In most movies the bad guy is killed at the end. Even if his death is brutal, he dies and that's the end. In "I Saw the Devil" Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) did what many of us less merciful people would've done and he had just about the whole movie to do it.
Soo-hyun wanted to make Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) suffer. Kyung-chul was the very type of man who deserved to suffer endlessly. He was a sadistic sociopathic killer. Soo-hyun was doing a public service when he planted a tracking device on Kyung-chul and kept appearing to cause him more pain. His only mistake was not debilitating Kyung-chul more.
"I Saw the Devil" was dark, twisted, menacing, gut-wrenching, and awesome. It takes you down a dark path that many of us may have mentally wandered, but never gone. The dark sordid path "I Saw the Devil" took us down felt right and just, but it wasn't without consequence. This movie jars you, sickens you, riles you up, and makes you powerfully mad. I can only imagine the twisted look on my face while watching. You have to like a movie that can do such things to you.