bad guy ( nabbeun namja ) be an early film of ki duk kim that be probably be release now in the u. s. due to the success of spring and summer and fall and winter . and spring ( bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom ) and but fan of that visually entrance parable should be warn how very different this exploration of the depth of human nature be . the style have some similarity in that there be no exposition and we have to connect image that tell a tale of two very different people over time . context be everything a voyeurism keep repeat along a sexual spectrum of men and woman together to romantic or erotic or degrade or lustful or violent and full of obsession or love or hate or longing or disgust and whether in prostitution and a relationship and or rape . a key context be emotion and degree and whether by the man or woman and or mutual and or drain of feeling such that i be not sure love have any meaning in this film . there a recur use of egon schiele erotic art to make some kind of comparative point about a continuum of sexual image and their effect on the viewer . the titular character be reminiscent of quasimodo of the hunchback of notre dame fixate on esmeralda if he be a psychopathic pimp in and i presume and seoul lurid red light district and play by the charismatic jae hyeon jo and like an apolitical romper stomper . i do get a little lost where he fit into the hierarchy of the yakuza like gangster organization that control the district and how much authority he have and and who be on top of whom to interpret their obsession . some of the encounter we see be presumably his limited fantasy a he miraculously recovers from various violently noble effort to protect and reach out to the object of his affection that remind me of the ambiguous end of jane campion the piano . the film explore some of the same territory a the work of catherine breillat and but the context seem uneasily different when i be the only woman in the theater and the director be male and perhaps because the central woman be always an object and even a she pitifully adapt to her various degradation and and even resists be free from them . all the woman in the film treat each other like the men treat them .