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Dir: Won Shin-yun. Cast: Lee Byuong-jun, Cha Ye-ryun, Han Suk-kyu

 

Description: Music professor Young-sun intends to have his wicked way with talented former student In-jeong, forcing himself on her during a drive in the countryside. Thankfully, the young woman escapes his clutches, only to run into a violent gang, who delight in playing mind games with their victims. Unable to call for help, Young-sun and In-jeong battle for survival, praying for escape from their hellish ordeal.

Country: S KOREA. 2006. 115mins
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A Bloody Aria is grimly amusing

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  23.10.08
 
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Shin-yun Won’s weird film proves something about Korean society — but I’m not quite sure what. It has a lecherous music professor driving his new Mercedes to Seoul with a pretty young opera singer. She runs away when he stops to get fresh with her and he is then set upon by a group of country bumpkin thugs who already have a boy tied up in a sack.

Sadistic games follow, combining a kind of dark humour with vicious games between tormentors and victims. It all looks like Michael Haneke-lite but, as a comment upon the fact that people tamed by violence tend to promote it when given half a chance, it has its grimly amusing merits

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