Much of it is delivered by the hapless detectives trying to chase Kyung-chul and Dae-hoon the lead detective questions a victim in the hospital, demanding in all seriousness: “Who broke your balls?” But his film is also aware of its over-the-top gore by allowing for a bit of humour. The director depicts violence and builds tension with a variety of shots and angles, from circular pans of the inside of cars to overhead city shots. Kim spares his audiences nothing, just as the killers spare no one. Article contentĭae-hoon is calculated, whereas Kyung-chul is an opportunist if opportunity strikes and girl is waiting alone at a bus stop, for example, he’s got a metal pipe or a hammer ready in the back of his bus. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He stuffs a GPS tracker in Kyung-chul’s mouth and then follows him around, exacting brutal revenge here and there, most often when Kyung-chul is about to gut his next victim.
I SAW THE DEVIL SKIN
When he stares down his foe, the skin under his eyes pulsates, and you know he’s about to blow. From the moment Kim focuses on Dae-hoon’s destroyed, tear-streaked face - his fiancée’s severed head rolling at his feet - the audience is on a mission with him. As Dae-hoon, he’s cold, intense and terrifying. When he rubs Lee’s fiancée’s arm, he says, “Your skin is so soft, looks like it’ll be easy,” like a butcher contemplating a cut of beef. He drives a school bus with angel wings on the rear-view mirror and plucks romantic tunes on a guitar. As Kyung-chul, a psychopath who other psychopaths fear, Choi is wild, intense and terrifying. Still, the great element that Park and Kim’s films share is Choi Min-sik (star of the cult classic Oldboy). In comparison, director Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil involves less psychological and moral ruminations, but more decapitations.
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