with the work of south korean filmmaker kim ki duk and the viewer have to accept some very fundamental flaw that inherently seem to be a part of his work in a practical sense . the production value be always cheap and the soundtrack music be always tacky and the acting be never more than at the most basic level and there be continuity error . in a word and his film always seem low budget and a if everything be shoot in one take . also he have almost an insistence on breach realism and lapse into his own vague allegory . his character never follow any kind of real internal logic and but rather act accord to the scenario he conceive . all of these factor amount to the reason i do not think i will ever be able to consider any of his film true masterpiece . that say and in return for accept these inherent flaw and the viewer be reward with a candid and unadulterated look into the creative mind of a very interesting person . kim ki duk vision be relentlessly idiosyncratic and but very consistent and pure . watch his film and you gain direct access into his thought . this be not film making by committee and this be auteurism in the true sense . that in and of itself be such a rarity that his film be worth see for this reason alone . and this film and bad guy and be probably the pure and most definitive example of kim ki duk vision . all the preoccupation that manifest in his other work be here represent the mute and inexpressive protagonist and the seeming obsession with prostitution and the degradation of woman in general and and also the director tendency to eventually lead his character into an incomprehensible fantasy world . whether or not the viewer be willing to accept these illogical flight of fancy be purely a matter of taste and but personally i find his work fascinate solely because it be so stubbornly idiosyncratic and fuel by a remarkably pure sense of creative expression .