I Saw Satan (Korean: 악마를 보았다) is a 2010 South Korean activity thrill ride film[3] coordinated by Kim Jee-woon and composed by Park Hoon-jung. Featuring Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik, the film follows NIS specialist Kim Soo-hyun (Lee), who leaves on a mission of vengeance when his life partner is mercilessly killed by the psychopathic chronic executioner Jang Kyung-chul (Choi). I Saw Satan made its debut in the US at the 2011 Sundance Film Celebration and had a restricted U.S dramatic release.[4]
I Saw Satan was Choi Min-sik’s most memorable significant job since the progressions to the Korean screen share framework
Plot[edit]
One evening, a school-transport driver named Jang Kyung-chul experiences a pregnant lady named Jang Joo-yun and offers to fix her punctured tire. Subsequent to beating her oblivious, Kyung-chul dissects Joo-yun at his home, and keeping in mind that doing as such, Joo-yun’s ring falls. Kyung-chul overlooks it and disperses the body parts into a neighborhood stream. At the point when a kid finds one of Joo-yun’s ears, the police show up as once huge mob to direct an inquiry, drove by Segment Boss Gracious and Crew Boss Jang, Joo-yun’s crushed dad. The casualty’s life partner, Kim Soo-hyun, a NIA official is additionally present and commitments to get payback against the killer.
Soo-hyun gains of the four suspects from Crew Boss Jang and continues to torment and investigate two of them secretly. After looking through the home of Kyung-chul, the third suspect, Soo-hyun finds Joo-yun’s wedding band, demonstrating that Kyung-chul was the culprit. A brief time frame later, Kyung-chul brings a student home and attacks her. Soo-hyun beats him oblivious. As opposed to killing Kyung-chul and being finished with it, Soo-hyun chooses to force a GPS tracker on him, permitting him to see Kyung-chul’s area progressively and to pay attention to his discussions.
Awakening harmed, Kyung-chul strolls along the street and is offered a ride by a taxi previously containing one traveler. After getting in, and accurately speculating that the driver and traveler are as a matter of fact two crooks planning to ransack and kill him, one being Soo-hyun’s unvisited fourth suspect, he strikes out prudently and kills them both. A short time later, he tracks down the body of the genuine cab driver in the storage compartment. Kyung-chul tosses out each of the three bodies, and drives to an unassuming community where he physically attacks a medical caretaker. Soo-hyun shows up to repress him and slices his Achilles ligament prior to delivering him again.
Kyung-chul visits the home of his companion Tae-joo, a killer and barbarian. In the wake of making sense of his circumstance for Tae-joo, the last option comments that whoever is after him should be the relative of one of his casualties. Kyung-chul subsequently concludes Soo-hyun’s personality in the wake of reviewing Joo-yun’s wedding band, which Soo-hyun had placed on prior to going after him beforehand. Soo-hyun shows up and cripples the two killers alongside Tae-joo’s better half Se-jung. The following day, Tae-joo and Se-jung, still oblivious, are captured by the police and shipped off the clinic.
Soo-hyun’s believed subordinate sorts out for Soo-hyun and Kyung-chul to sidestep the police and get treatment for their injuries at a different office. The scarcely cognizant Kyung-chul hears Soo-hyun and the subordinate discussing the transmitter. Soo-hyun discharges Kyung-chul once more, however the last option outfoxes Soo-hyun, cutting the throat of a drug specialist while taking purgatives which he uses to eliminate the transmitter, then establishes it on a driver at a truck stop that he violently beats. Soo-hyun goes into Tae-joo’s medical clinic space to address him, and advances past the point of no return that Kyung-chul is pursuing Crew Boss Jang and his other girl Jang Se-yun.
Rankled, Soo-hyun breaks Tae-joo’s jaw. Kyung-chul shows up at the place of Jang, and continues to ruthlessly attack him with a hand weight, then, at that point, kill Jang Se-yun. Not long after, Kyung-chul endeavors to keep away from Soo-hyun’s vengeance by giving up to the police. Notwithstanding, Soo-hyun drives by and hijacks Kyung-chul directly before the police’s eyes. Taking him to the prior stockroom, Soo-hyun torments him, places him under the stopgap guillotine, and leaves him holding a rope between his teeth to hold the sharp edge back from falling.
However he ridicules Soo-hyun, Kyung-chul starts to overreact when he discovers that his child and older guardians, whom he had deserted some time prior, have shown up and are attempting to visit him. As his family opens the entryway regardless of his suppressed fights, it sets off one more component set up by Soo-hyun that drops the sharp edge and fiercely decapitates Kyung-chul before his loved ones. With Kyung-chul at last dead, Soo-hyun, who was tuning in through the transmitter some distance away – has a profound breakdown as he understands his “retribution” won’t ever cheer him up.
Cast[edit]
• Lee Byung-hun as Kim Soo-hyun, a specialist in the Public Knowledge Service[6]
• Choi Min-sik as Jang Kyung-chul, an institute transport driver and chronic executioner
• Gracious San-ha as Jang Joo-yun, Soo-hyun’s life partner
• Jeon Gook-hwan as Crew Boss Jang, Joo-yun’s dad
• Kim Yoon-website optimization as Jang Se-yun, Joo-yun’s sister
• Chun Ho-jin as Segment Boss Goodness, the head of the police
• Choi Moo-sung as Tae-joo, Kyung-chul’s companion
• Kim In-website design enhancement as Se-jung, Tae-joo’s sweetheart
• Yoon Chae-youthful as Han Tune yi, nurture
• Nam Bo-ra as Segment Boss Goodness’ little girl
• Jung Ji-yoon as Middle school female understudy
Substitute forms
The Korea Media Rating Board constrained Kim to recut the film for its dramatic delivery, having a problem with its brutal substance. The film got a “Limited” rating two times, forestalling any kind of delivery in theaters or on home video and advancements as well.[7]Seven cuts were made with the all out runtime of taken out material somewhere in the range of eighty and ninety seconds.[8]
Discharge
I Saw Satan was delivered in South Korea on August 12, 2010. The film debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Celebration on 21 January 2011.[4] It additionally got screenings at a few other worldwide film celebrations, including the Fantasporto Film Celebration, Toronto Global Film Celebration, Sitges Film Celebration, San Sebastian Film Celebration and the London Korean Film Festival.[9]
North American dispersion freedoms were obtained by Magnet Delivering which delivered it on a restricted premise on Walk 4, 2011.[10][11] Ideal Delivering disseminated the film in the Unified Kingdom.[12]
Basic gathering
The survey total site Spoiled Tomatoes provides the film with a score of 81%, with a weighted normal of 7.13 out of 10, in view of 83 audits from pundits. The site’s “Faultfinders Agreement” says the film is “Never wincing during its plunge into degeneracy, […] a pounding spine chiller that will give horrendous fulfillment to crowds who like their retribution presented with red hot rage.”[13] On Metacritic the film got “By and large ideal surveys,” with a weighted normal of 67 out of 100, in light of 19 reviews.[14]
Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times expressed, “From a startlingly moving first demonstration to a cleverly nauseating stay with Kyung-chul’s man-eater buddy, Mr. Kim and his cinematographer, Lee Mogae, hold full oversight of the film’s fluctuating tones and great set pieces.”[15] Imprint Olson of the Los Angeles Times stated, “There is all the fierce disorder, for certain, yet what sets I Saw Satan separated is its propensity of genuine inclination and how unwaveringly miserable it can be.”[16]Rob Nelson from Assortment magazine expressed, “Repulsive substance, grislier than the ugliest torment pornography, should have made the film unwatchable, yet it doesn’t, just on the grounds that Kim’s image is so flawlessly recorded, painstakingly organized and instinctively engaging.”[17] Ridiculous Sickening’s Brad Miska provided it with a rating of four-and-a-half out of five, stating: “I could speak for quite a long time about I Saw Satan, yet nothing I can say will at any point do it equity. The film is an encounter; something will have you sincerely put resources into the characters, while likewise covering your eyes at the limit violence,”[18] though Domain evaluated the film four out of five, expressing, “This merrily dark loathsomeness spine chiller is an extremely tasteful development to The Upside, the Terrible, the Odd for Kim Jee-Woon.”[19] Phelim O’Neil from The Watchman stated, “There’s no deficiency of Korean vengeance thrill rides, yet this, alongside the new The Man from No place, demonstrates there is a lot of life left in the class” and gave it a four star rating out five.[20]
Not all pundits were great towards the movie’s mercilessness; Imprint Jenkins of The Washington Post expressed, “Chief Kim Jee-woon is a conceived producer, regardless of whether this content (composed by Park Hoon Jung and adjusted by Kim) is contemptible of his endeavors” and evaluated it two out of five stars.[21] Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Journalist composed that, “On quite a few levels, Demon is problematic, best case scenario, hostile at worst.”[22]
In 2014, Drifter magazine put I Saw Satan in the main 20 of “the most terrifying motion pictures you’ve never seen.”[23] In 2019, Jim Vorel of Glue named it the best thriller of 2010, composing of its definitive decision: “It’s one of the extraordinary, void triumphs of loathsomeness film during the 2010s, and ought to be seen by a bigger crowd.
