{"id":6377,"date":"2011-07-09T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2015-10-20T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:49:42","slug":"i-saw-the-devil-2010-ji-woon-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6377","title":{"rendered":"I Saw The Devil (2010, Ji-woon Kim)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy a good horror movie, and have looked forward to this follow-up to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2300\">The Good, The Bad and The Weird<\/a><\/em>.  It&#8217;s a well-shot cops-vs-serial-killers story.  But beginning with the first murder, I got the increasing feeling that this would be less an enjoyably thrilling horror flick than a torturous bit of nastiness.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got another steadily increasing feeling, that of a massive migraine which would knock out my ability to function for the rest of the day and keep me home from work the following day from its after-effects.  So I spent a half hour of this movie willing myself not to have a migraine, hoping maybe at least I could finish the movie before it got too bad, taking breaks, sitting in dark rooms, then returning.  Finally I figured it&#8217;s a bad movie and there&#8217;s nothing I can do to help myself anyway, so I might as well watch the second half under the sensory-distorting influence of a brain-crushing headache.  Better to try and enjoy the glowing HD picture of a stylish slasher than sit bored and useless in the bedroom all evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/isawthedevil.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, movie plays like a sequel to <em>Se7en<\/em> &#8211; 20 minutes in, a detective sees his wife&#8217;s head in a cardboard box.  Her dad is in charge of the violent crime unit, and you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d be into solving this particular crime, but it&#8217;s the obsessed husband (Byung-hun Lee, The Bad in <em>Good\/Bad\/Weird<\/em>) who gets results, by going on an illegal rampage against all the lead suspects, getting into the killer&#8217;s head and swearing to torture him in return.  Halfway through he finds the guy (Min-sik Choi, star of <em>Oldboy<\/em>), a school bus driver, and tracks him, beating the shit out of him every couple of scenes, finally beheading the guy in front of his estranged family.  It&#8217;s a dark and torturous movie, which was extremely difficult for me to sit through, though that&#8217;s not completely the movie&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy a good horror movie, and have looked forward to this follow-up to The Good, The Bad and The Weird. It&#8217;s a well-shot cops-vs-serial-killers story. But beginning with the first murder, I got the increasing feeling that this would be less an enjoyably thrilling horror flick than a torturous bit of nastiness. Then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,54,870,229],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-horror","tag-ji-woon-kim","tag-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10545,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/10545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}