I Saw the Devil (2010)

I Saw the Devil is one of the greatest movies of all time. Like every time I watch it it's just perfect. Okay, but...sigh, can we talk about how the last time I watched this I saw this film as a love story? Like, before I'd always ship Soo-hyeon and Kyung-chul like ironically, or for a laugh, because, UH, one man is looking to seek revenge upon another man for brutally murdering his wife? And I'm not even looking at it as a love story like...because Soo-hyeon is looking to avenge his wife's murder and that's maybe romantic, but more because this whole revenge thing is...kind of erotic?? Especially since it's such a good match and thrilling competition smh. I'll just say I think it's erotic instead of a love story so they don't arrest me. 

So the movie starts with a woman in her car during a snowstorm, I think? I believe her tire went flat? Tbh, I don't remember, which is wild, because I've seen this like 11 million times. But my memory is really bad because I'm always watching shit, so like put one thing in, push one out. Pretty sure that's how the brain works!! Anyway, the woman in the broke-down car calls her husband who is in the Korean FBI or something, Soo-hyeon. What was really wild to me is how apparently it was his wife's birthday and he was at work, and also that it seemed he missed her birthday last year as well? Um, you're a deadbeat and that's why your wife was murdered. 

Lovable murderess Kyung-chul approaches Soo-hyeon's wife's car and offers to help her and I'm pretty sure she locks her car door which means nothing because this nigga is an actual savage. And not a "savage" like some fledgling instagram thaught who has a Spotify playlist with just "Needed Me" and "B*tch Better Have My Money" on it. Like, a jungle savage, except he's been assimilated, and is also the anti+christ. So, like, locked doors mean nothing to him. Fast-forward to Soo-hyeon's wife getting extra-murdered. 

Kyung-chul has some creepy serial killer's lair with a drain that he can wash all the blood down and it's just so cliché. 

Fast-forward to Soo-hyeon taking like two weeks off work so he can find his wife's killer and seek revenge. He didn't know it was Kyung-chul at first, so he goes through like 3-4 other dudes who were listed as suspects. They were criminals for other shit, so we the audience don't feel uncomfortable when he's like beating them with wrenches or bike helmets or shit even though they're not his wife's murderer. Also, it's just an extremely lit vibe. The violence is expected, and encouraged. 

So the movie is already completely lit. Kyung-chul is such an incorrigible piece of shit, the shit is almost charming. Nah, he's a demon, but he brings that fire from hell with him to light this motherfucking movie up. And then Soo-hyeon is wearing this fucking leather bubble jacket or some shit zipped ALL THE WAY UP TO HIS MOTHERFUCKING NECK and just tearing the shit out of niggas like it's some sort of version of Grand Theft Auto that is solely about killing niggas who are in your way as you make it to the nearest porta-porty because you eternally, really have to shit.  

Once Soo-hyeon finds Kyung-chul, you're already tired. Like, shit, it's just getting started?! But we're off to the races with Soo-hyeon basically repeatedly almost killing Kyung-chul but pulling back at the last minute, so he can keep playing with him. But my thing is: he keeps Kyung-chul alive out in the streets so he can keep fucking with him, at risk that he will continue to harm others, which, um, he does? 

At a certain point Kyung-chul gets tired of getting his ass beat, so he decides to come back at Soo-hyeon. See, this is why I wasn't feeling Soo-hyeon not killing Kyung-chul right away, because it's clear this nigga is a demon with zero fucks to give. You cold-blood murder people, you don't give a fuck. Soo-hyeon can act like he dead inside all he want until Kyung-chul comes after people he cares about. Dumb! Stupid!

But, I guess?, Soo-hyeon gets the ~last laugh~ with him tying Kyung-chul up and, like, attaching his jaw to the doorknob of a door so when his family opens it his head rips off or some shit. The end is almost anti-climatic. Because you can't actually avenge someone's death. They're, like, in almost every case, going to stay being dead. So. Plus, Kyung-chul had no real feelings and kills people just to be doing it. He doesn't even seem to have a John Wayne Gacy-esque backstory. He be killing niggas how some people scrapbook. Just some weird shit to fill the time, tbh. 

But anyway, this movie is mad erotic, and no one can ever take that from me. There's recorded evidence - receipts. Don't you dare try to deny it when it's sitting here staring right back at you! Don't even try it!!