i love korean director ki duk kim the isle and and this film be just as good . it may not be to everyone taste a it be a dark film about obsession . han ki ( jae hyeon jo ) be a hood . we never really know how important he be and but he do run a brothel . he become obsess with a beautiful college student and sun hwa ( win seo ) and who reject and diss him . he can not rise to her level and so he will bring her down to his . he set her up and force her to borrow from a loan shark to get out of trouble . when she can not pay and she be bring into the brothel . he watch her humiliation from behind a two way mirror . many week or month or year later and after han ki go to jail and one of his men offer to let her go . she realize she can not return to her former life . she stay . the end take a couple of twist and turn and end up in a totally unexpected place . brilliant .