What was your reaction to viewing "I Saw the Devil"? Explain why you have the reaction and, using Jeannette Catsoulis's review as a guide, comment on something she has said in your reaction.
“I Saw the Devil” didn’t quite give me nightmares but it did haunt my thoughts for 24 hours or so. I did like the film, though it wasn’t always easy to watch. The director, Kim Jee-woon, is a master of the camera, especially in filming action. One place I really appreciated his work was when Soo-hyun finds out that his prey, Kyung-chul, has removed the GPS transmitter and placed it in that poor kid at the gas station. The camera swoops upward as Soo-hyun looks confused and, by doing that, the director literally made my stomach feel like it does on a roller coaster—queasy! As for Jeannette Casoulis’s review, her mention of the film being a “a droll Nietzschean fable” made me curious. What she means is the story is mainly about power and the control of our will to do something, which is indeed an accurate description of the film and the elements in play. Not normally being a fan of any kind of horror or revenge fantasy cinema, “I Saw the Devil” gave me a chance to see a quality (though gory) example of a masterpiece in this genre. Thanks Spike!
I was pleasantly surprised when we watched " I Saw the Devil " at how it kept me on the edge of my seat.I am not a fan of horror thriller movies but this one was good.I especially liked the fact that the hero Soo Jee woon transition into the hunter was so easily believable.Along those lines of being a hunter Soo Jee woon also transformed into the crazy lunatic that he was stocking.The movie took the clear path of right and wrong and twisted them into a crazy tale of wrongs being rite.It was easy to feel Kyung-chul's fustration at how his hunter so easily found him and foiled his sadistic attempts to violate his victims ,this kept the hunt going as well as the intense flow of the movie.I enjoyed this movie Spike good choice.
'I saw the devil' had became one of my favorite film recently because of those two main actors. In the movie,Byung-hun Lee is acting as Soo-hyun,and Min-sik Choi is acting as Kyung-chul. Those two actors are my favorite for a long time,because they act really well for variable characters in variable films. I was been excited for counting for the film's release date which means a very rare case to me for a movie.
I kept asking myself two questions during watching this film. First,what is the limit of a private revenge? Second,is there any other way of judge a monster without becoming another monster? There are not too many differences between Soo-hyun and Kyung-chul,because revenge can be another name of desire easily especially when it comes for the revenge against a monster. During the revenge process,Soo-hyun was becoming a monster as his prey,because he went too close to it. At the last scene,the director described it very uncertainly but very clearly. I think the scene says us that he finished the revenge but he became another monster by the killing for Kyung-chul in the most horrible way that he could possibly imagine. The scene made me horrified,because I was always thought myself in the way of Soo-hyun. I think I'm the regular guy and there is no common with Kyung-chul,but I can't be sure about myself if I go through same thing like Soo-hyun. The difference between him and me is that he went through the lost and I didn't. The film says that we can be a monster if we lost control of ourselves,and it scares me the most.
“I Saw the Devil” didn’t quite give me nightmares but it did haunt my thoughts for 24 hours or so. I did like the film, though it wasn’t always easy to watch. The director, Kim Jee-woon, is a master of the camera, especially in filming action. One place I really appreciated his work was when Soo-hyun finds out that his prey, Kyung-chul, has removed the GPS transmitter and placed it in that poor kid at the gas station. The camera swoops upward as Soo-hyun looks confused and, by doing that, the director literally made my stomach feel like it does on a roller coaster—queasy! As for Jeannette Casoulis’s review, her mention of the film being a “a droll Nietzschean fable” made me curious. What she means is the story is mainly about power and the control of our will to do something, which is indeed an accurate description of the film and the elements in play. Not normally being a fan of any kind of horror or revenge fantasy cinema, “I Saw the Devil” gave me a chance to see a quality (though gory) example of a masterpiece in this genre. Thanks Spike!
ReplyDeleteI was pleasantly surprised when we watched " I Saw the Devil " at how it kept me on the edge of my seat.I am not a fan of horror thriller movies but this one was good.I especially liked the fact that the hero Soo Jee woon transition into the hunter was so easily believable.Along those lines of being a hunter Soo Jee woon also transformed into the crazy lunatic that he was stocking.The movie took the clear path of right and wrong and twisted them into a crazy tale of wrongs being rite.It was easy to feel Kyung-chul's fustration at how his hunter so easily found him and foiled his sadistic attempts to violate his victims ,this kept the hunt going as well as the intense flow of the movie.I enjoyed this movie Spike good choice.
ReplyDelete'I saw the devil' had became one of my favorite film recently because of those two main actors. In the movie,Byung-hun Lee is acting as Soo-hyun,and Min-sik Choi is acting as Kyung-chul. Those two actors are my favorite for a long time,because they act really well for variable characters in variable films. I was been excited for counting for the film's release date which means a very rare case to me for a movie.
ReplyDeleteI kept asking myself two questions during watching this film. First,what is the limit of a private revenge? Second,is there any other way of judge a monster without becoming another monster? There are not too many differences between Soo-hyun and Kyung-chul,because revenge can be another name of desire easily especially when it comes for the revenge against a monster. During the revenge process,Soo-hyun was becoming a monster as his prey,because he went too close to it. At the last scene,the director described it very uncertainly but very clearly. I think the scene says us that he finished the revenge but he became another monster by the killing for Kyung-chul in the most horrible way that he could possibly imagine. The scene made me horrified,because I was always thought myself in the way of Soo-hyun. I think I'm the regular guy and there is no common with Kyung-chul,but I can't be sure about myself if I go through same thing like Soo-hyun. The difference between him and me is that he went through the lost and I didn't. The film says that we can be a monster if we lost control of ourselves,and it scares me the most.