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Vladimir had wondered what had befallen to receive this kind of treatment. The moment of it made him want to claw the eyes out of the one before him. His hand holding onto his arm so very tightly. Mostly likely bruising it in his grip. The red eyes boring into his as his lips quickly brushed his. Biting back a hiss of discomfort, the tightness in his throat that squeezed the breath out of him. This feeling he hadn’t felt in so long. Where he wanted to even tear at his own flesh away, not wanting to further feel tainted by his touch. 

The anger in his pale orbs while he maintained his calm features. Although more stiff than relaxed. His smile didn’t stay on his lips, the urge to taunt Aatrox lost as the rage filled him, boiling so furiously within. The other only stared at him, toying with him just like the other Darkin. 

That’s when he lost it. His free hand reaching to the Darkin’s face, clawing at it mercilessly. He didn’t care what consequences would ensue. He only cared to seek harm. To kill him just like he did with the one he killed before. Reaching higher to claw at those eyes of his. 

Reaching...

A sharp intake of breath woke him suddenly. Eyes opened wide, seeing nothing for a few seconds before the images before him were clear. Seeing the shelves that contained many books he collected over the years. Finding that he had taken a nap in his office as he sat up in his chair. Looking around as he massaged the side of his head. Grunting with annoyance at the dream due to his recent visit with the Darkin. Now peering down on the desk he rested his head upon. Where it was once smooth was ruined due to his actions in his nightmare. 

A heavy sigh, he stood to leave the office. Entering the long dark hallway and found one of his servants who made her way to him. Most making her rounds to meet his needs. Bowing to him as she was near him, her voice light and playful.

“Good evening, Lord Vladimir.”

“Hello, darling. You do have excellent timing. I sadly need you to find me a new desk in my office.”

One of the most BRUTAL & BADASS movies I've ever seen AT THE MOVIES.

I Saw the Devil (2010)

★★★½ Rewatched 28 Oct 2025

Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil (2010) stars Lee Byung-hun as a secret agent whose pregnant fiancée is brutally murdered by a sadistic serial killer. The killer, played by Choi Min-sik, is best known to international audiences as the tormented protagonist of Oldboy (2003). The casting is deliberate. In Oldboy, Choi was the victim of an elaborate revenge plot; here, he’s on the receiving end of one yet again. The two roles form a mirror, both centered on cycles of vengeance and absurd cruelty.

In Oldboy, Choi’s character is humiliated so continuously and grotesquely that the film teeters between tragedy and farce. It’s almost like watching Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force being psychologically and physically punished in increasingly absurd ways. I Saw the Devil amplifies that dynamic until it becomes its entire premise. The killer, Jang Kyung-chul, is Carl. He’s a grotesque, sleazy and pathetic, yet somehow indestructible. The avenging agent, Kim Soo-hyun, is Bugs Bunny with a badge. He’s clever, sadistic, and endlessly inventive in tormenting his prey. The movie even adopts a kind of Looney Tunes rhythm: Kyung-chul gets captured, beaten, humiliated, and released, only for the cycle to repeat in escalating, cartoonishly violent scenarios.

This cat-and-mouse structure pushes the film toward dark comedy, though one buried beneath buckets of blood. Released amid the post-Saw and Hostel “torture porn” wave, I Saw the Devil takes that genre’s fixation on bodily punishment and stretches it to the point of parody. The violence is so extreme and prolonged that it becomes absurd. For the first ninety minutes, this tonal tightrope walk works. It’s a comedy disguised as a horror film disguised as a crime thriller.

But around the two-hour mark, the film overstays its welcome. There’s a moment when Kyung-chul turns himself in, providing a perfect natural endpoint that would’ve reinforced the movie’s intended moral that revenge solves nothing. Instead, Kim Jee-woon pushes on for another half hour of elaborate cruelty, including a Saw-like finale involving the killer’s innocent family. The theme is muddied, and the Looney Tunes dynamic has grown tiresome after well over two hours.

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