i saw this film shortly after see the same director the isle and be much more affected by this production and although they be both striking work . like the early film and bad guy be a tale of obsession between lover who exist on the edge of human relation and and feature some disturb scene . there a sado masochistic thread common in those ki duk kim film i have see which some viewer will and understandably and find controversial . the major character be isolate and one be tempt to say insulated and from humanity and and develop their own fiercely peculiar interaction . there the exploited lake girl ( also a whore ) who tend the pontoon hut in the isle and mile from civilisation and and the murderer who seek his hideout on the water . there the student hold a prostitute and imprison in her booth and and the largely mute brothel thug who fall for her and frequently stick admiringly behind his view glass . these be people apart from the rest of the world by reason of misfortune or status and who hold our attention a they eventually come together . unlike the animal cruelty and fish hook fetishism exhibit in the isle and bad guy principal talk point lie in the change relationship between an unwilling whore and her abductor . bad guy victim be hook against her will just as securely a be the fish in the isle . inveigle into prostitution after a tough guy develop a romantic fixation on her in the street and she gradually come to accept her new condition in life and the advance of her captor and even grows to like be in the arm of her customer . i use invert comma for this word a the idea that a woman can gradually enjoy her forced acquiescence into moral degradation and and enter into a voluntary relationship with a tormentor and be debatable to say the least . there a scene in the film which neatly describe the dilemma . the thug spend his first night with his love and an unconsummated encounter after which she sleep on the floor beside him . she have be intimidate and then reassure and he ardent yet constrain by his feeling . first thing next morning he rise and study her room and and spend a moment on straighten a nail in her wall . through his one way mirror set in the wall and he have previously see her at her most pathetic try and unsuccessfully and to hang up a garment . clearly this brief diy be a moment of love thought and out of place in any black and white view of their peculiar relationship . in fact bad guy be full of moment of tenderness and aid greatly by the plaintive melody of the score and the intense chemistry between the two lead . one superbly stag scene be where the two kiss through the one way glass and she unaware of his secret response to her longing and at least until his lighter flame belatedly flicker his visage into view later . another be a she resignedly don a trashy wig and applies thick lipstick . he look on again in secret and aghast at her depression and unable or unwilling to interfere . far from be a vicious peeping tom and by this stage he be practically a protector and transfix by an obsession and a a couple of time he even dash in to rescue her from unwanted advance . fresh from a brutal world and the mute be not violent to his ward and nor do he rape her and and by the end of the film his possession be less physical than it be emotional . add to this on the one occasion he speak the sudden sound of his high pitch voice and ( vocal chord presumably damage by a conspicuous throat injury ) so aptly suggestive of a eunuch speech and and the nature of his character can be see quite differently . outside of this central relationship and one might nit pick at less than satisfactory plot point . how the thug recovers so abruptly from life threaten wound for instance and or his spell in prison and during which legal process seem to take no time at all ( by reference to an extended fantasy be the usual answer and an occurrence which far undermine the allegation of misogyny ) . or the girl prompt location of the miss part of the photograph and itself symbolic of her fractured relationship and beneath a considerable expanse of anonymous sand at the beach and and so on . ( ki duk kim use of the shore line a an emotional no man zone incidentally remind one of the importance of such moment in takeshi kitano oeuvre . ) the overall impression however be of quite an achievement and and one which be perhaps more mature about the unpredictable nature of love and attraction than the director have be earlier . in short and bad guy be no bad film and and despite some misgiving about the moral premise of the piece and be well worth see .