Nabbeun namja (2001)

Regisseur:

Ki-duk Kim

Drehbuchautor:

Ki-duk Kim (writer)

Premierendatum:

11. Februar 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

Trapped in a world of pleasure and pain ...

Plot:

In busy downtown Seoul, a thuggish young man notices a fresh-faced college student who sits on a bench...

Plot Keywords:

Fistfight | Pimp | Stabbed In The Back | Stabbing | Rough Boss

Filmpreise:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Love can make a man insane.

Besetzung

Jae-hyeon Jo	...	Han-ki
Won Seo	...	Sun-hwa
Yun-tae Kim	...	Yun-tae
Duek-mun Choi	...	Myoung-soo
Yoon-young Choi	...	Hyun-ja
Yoo-jin Shin	...	Min-jung
Jung-young Kim	...	Eun-hye
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Gung-Min Nam	...	Hyun-su

Alternativ:

Bad Guy (International: English title) (literal title)

Länge:

100 Min

Produktionsland:

South Korea

Sprache:

Koreanisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Altersfreigabe:

Norway:15 | Italy:VM18 (DVD) (self-applied) | Finland:K-18 | Japan:R-15 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:R21 | South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Hong Kong:III

Firma:

LJ Film

Soundtrack:

Blott En Dag

Love can make a man insane.

This is not the best of movies, but I rank it high because it did it for me. Though the characters are not really presented to the viewer, they are developed through the movie by showing their actions. The plot is not really important here, and people that cling to whatever feminist or political agendas when discussing a movie are wasting everybody's time. It reminds me of an old Italian movie, I can't remember the name or actors because I've seen it when I was a kid, with a mafia boss that falls in love with a woman, kidnaps her but wants to charms her, rather that rape her. This is also about a generally violent man who's attention is captured by a beautiful girl and he also wants access to her soul, rather than her body.

The movie is full of contrasts and paradoxes, but what sets it apart is the atmosphere (I had my heart pumping a good part of the movie, without it being an action movie or anything) and the subtle way it reveals the deep needs of every character.

Its bad part, though, is that close to the end you keep expecting the movie to end and it doesn't. The slow pace of the movie doesn't help either, so a feeling of "is it over yet?" can easily set in.

I liked it, I recommend it to people who have the mood to see a psychological Asian movie about gangsters, prostitutes and the power of love.