A tough gangland leader experiences love at first sight when he encounters a young college student in a crowd. With no concern for public conduct or the desires of the girl he forces himself upon her and kisses her in front of her boyfriend. Totally unapologetic the man is beaten by police and left disgraced.Desperate to see her again the man decides to return to the same place. Soon the student re-appears and she and her boyfriend go on a window shopping trip. However her desperate lack of money leads her to commit an unfortunate crime for which her victim... demands an uncompromising pre-planned punishment: She must work as a prostitute to pay the money back. And it is the man who fell in love with her in the crowd that day that will be responsible for taking care of her. Dark daring and brutal this twisted tale from the director of The Isle challenges romantic ideals and breaks with conventional notions of love to deliver one of the most powerful and controversial films of recent years. [show more]
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Controversial film by Korean director Kim Ki-duk about the twisted relationship between a college student-turned-prostitute and her mute gangland pimp. When Han-ki (Jo Jae-Hyeon), the silent but brutally violent leader of a gang in Seoul's red light district, glimpses a pretty young student, Sun-hwa (Seo Won), in a crowd, he becomes instantly obsessed with her and kisses her without asking her permission in front of her boyfriend. Completely unapologetic, he is beaten by the police for the assault, but this doesn't stop him stalking her on a shopping trip with her boyfriend. When Sun-hwa gets caught stealing, Han-ki seizes his opportunity to force her into prostiitution. He watches through a one-way mirror as she suffers excrutiating cruelty and abuse from a string of brutal clients, and the film charts her decline into humiliation, degradation and ultimate ruin. Whether the film depicts a poignant, twisted love between the two very damaged central characters, or an outrageously offensive glamourisation of gratuitous torture and abuse, is an ongoing debate among feminists and critics.
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