Bloody tie

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Movie
German title Bloody tie
Original title Sasaeng gyeoldan
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2006
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Choi Ho
script Choi Ho,
Yun Deok-won
camera Oh hyun-jae
cut Kim Jae-beom ,
Kim Sang-Beom
occupation

Bloody Tie ( kor. 사생 결단 ) is a Korean fictional film by director Choi Ho from 2006, enriched with police and gangster film elements . The work was released on April 27, 2006 in Korean cinemas and aroused because of a taboo break - the Depiction of a drug addiction - great sensation.

The film, budgeted at around five million US dollars, attracted around 1.6 million viewers to domestic cinemas.

action

South Korea was shattered by the global economic crisis at the end of the 1990s. Drug abuse is spreading and many people have become addicted. In Busan in particular , the trade in synthetic drugs and stimulants such as crystal meth is booming . The southern metropolis is degenerating into a stronghold of corruption and organized crime.

The young drug dealer Sang-do supplies a district of Busan with drugs with the help of his loyal companion Sung-geun. The sleazy gangster sees himself as a businessman who only serves the never-ending demand. At the same time, Sang-do acts as an informant for the drug investigator Do, who is obsessed with vengeance. The edgy and unpredictable policeman wants to atone for the death of his former partner, who was once murdered by drug barons. Although the two can't stand each other, drug investigator Do forces his informant to help him with the upcoming arrest of a drug lord or his representative. The police operation and the unusual cooperation ended in a fiasco. The wanted person takes an attractive companion, Ji-young, hostage, injures her and fled - until he had a fatal accident in a traffic accident. Drug cop Do is suspended after the police action, Sang-do is sent to prison for eight months. The injured Ji-young suffers a serious trauma.

The ambitious Do, marked by self-doubt, was returned to the police force months later. Sang-do is released from prison at a different time. The small dealer tries to regain a foothold in the ancestral district. However, the scene has changed to the chagrin of the criminal. Drugs of unknown origin are flooding the Korean market. In this situation, Do turns to his former informant with a request to bring down the notorious Chinese drug lord Jang-chul. Sang-do is extremely suspicious but agrees to partner again. Both have their own secret goals: Do is on a personal campaign of revenge against Jang-chul, while Sang-do is fighting for supremacy in the drug market. At some point the gangster meets the drug addict Ji-young, whom he takes on. Without further ado, he quartered them with his seedy uncle Taek-jo, who accompanied the heavily addict when she suddenly stopped taking drugs .

With brutal means, Sang-do eventually displaces the dealers from his ancestral district. With the tolerance of drug lord Jang-chul, he later worked his way up to become a successful “businessman” again. At some point, the informer discovered that the Chinese drug was manufactured in a mobile laboratory in Korea. Before Sang-do can denounce other backers, Do makes the decisive breakthrough. During his investigation, the cop comes across the person responsible for the production of the stimulants, Taek-jo, Sang-do's uncle, known in the scene only as "professor". In an opaque game of betrayal and intrigue, there is a showdown at the end of the film . When trying to convict Jang-chul in a nocturnal police operation, the district attorney intervenes, assuring the drug lord of impunity as part of a witness protection program . After the death Taek-jos and killing Sang-dos Do shoots in vigilante justice finally drug lord Jang-chul.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the “mixture of cop thriller, gangster film and buddy movie , which takes getting used to,” could not bring itself to “a uniform style, even in terms of staging” .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Entry on hancinema.net - accessed November 12, 2009
  2. ↑ cf. Bloody Tie in the Lexicon of International Films

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