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Derek Malcolm's rating
A Bloody Aria is grimly amusing
By
Derek Malcolm
23 Oct 2008
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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