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When gangster Han-gi (Jo Jae-hyeon) sets his eyes on college student
Seon-Hwa (Seo Won), he immediately falls in love with her, & kisses
her passionately in public. Weirdly enough she doesn't share his feelings,
pushes him back, has him beaten up by 3 cops who come to her rescue &
spits in his face ... But Han-gi isn't one to give up easily, he soon
tricks Seon-hwa into doing a bit of thieving, taking up an unsecured loan
& as a result having to sell her body in a prostitution ring ... but
what nobody knows is that Han-gi has a little chamber next to the room
Seon-hwa has to live in (& fuck) now from where he watches over her
through a 2-way-mirror ... Only gradually can Seon-hwa, who is held at the brothel she works at
almost like a prisoner, accept her terrible fate, but that is not saying
she doesn't try to escape ... when she notices she has caught the eye of
one of Han-gi's henchmen, Myeung-su (Choi Duek-mun), she begs him to help
her get away, & since he's in love with her, he agrees ... but little
does he know that Han-gi has observed their whole conversation from his
little room & brings Seon-hwa back in no time ... much to the relief
of Myeung-su, who has feared he would never see her again. Later, quite
drunkenly, Han-gi wants to fuck Seon-hwa, but falls to sleep in her bed
from the alcohol before he can do so. She seems to have, at long last,
lost her fear of him, & sleeps peacefully beside him ... Yet later,
gangster big-shot Dal Su is released from prison, & between him &
his bodyguard on one side, & Han-gi & his henchmen Myeung-su &
Jeung-tae (Kim Yun-tae) on the other, a little turf war erupts, during
which Dal-su's bodyguard stabs Han-gi with a shard of glass almost to his
death ... but the bodyguard himself will not survive, as Han-gi's loyal
Jeung-tae stabs him to death the same night. Han-gi however takes the
rap for it, & is soon convicted to death ... which (rather
surprisingly) has Seon-hwa - whom he has forced into prostitution - burst
out in tears ... Soon Jeung-tae kills Dal Su, too, & is thrown into
the slammer ... with the sole purpose to confess to the murder of Dal Su's
bodyguard, too, & thus get Han-gi (who was quite literally already on
his way to the gallows) out of prison ... Back out, the first thing
Han-gi does it to show Seon-hwa that he has always been watching her
through her mirror ... then he sets her free. The first thing she does is
to go to a beach, where she & Han-gi witnessed a girl going into the
water many months ago ... When Han-gi's own henchman Myeung-su, who was
in love with the girl, hears his boss set her free, the two start a fight
right in front of the brothel she has been working at, during which Han-gi
is fatally stabbed ... Later - but it might be already in the next
life, depending on if Seon-hwa did really go into the water & Han-gi
did really die of his fatal wounds - Seon-hwa & Han-gi meet again, as
lovers. Soon they fix up a truck, put a matress into the back, &
travel the countryside as a sort of brothel bus, with Seon-hwa as its sole
prostitute ... Despite a story full of sleaze & violence,
the film manages to neither be overly sleaqzy nor overly violent, instead
treats its plot like a love-story, an absurd one though & one that is
not necessarily politically correct. The outcome though is a likeable
& entertaining film that treats its dark subject in a light, but by no
means shallow, way & offers great storytelling instead of adhere to
some/any formula that either genre or political correctness demand, or
trying to provoke the audience at any cost ...& I can't think of much
nicer things to say about a film.
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