I Saw the Devil
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Our read · I Saw the Devil (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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