It's not as good as other classic Korean thrillers but it's still a very good movie. The ending and it's implication is the best part of the movie so stick it out if act 2 isn't totally to your liking. It's funny and also has lots of action. It takes many weird turns that you can't really guess. The acting is great from every single actor involved. It doesn't have the beautiful Korean cinematography that other movies has, but it's plot more than makes up for that.

A silly insult to Korean cinema.

half amusing.... then it starts to get talky and boring.... missed chance here

Blend of violence and dark humor!!

This is a twisted film. Having "bloody" in the title and being compared to Oldboy got my attention. It is Korean and seriously messed up, like Oldboy. It's in the country and deals with monstrous rednecks, like Deliverance. I've never watched Deliverance because of what I've heard about it. The Library of Congress may feel it's "aesthetically significant" but it's not on my list of movies I want to see. A Bloody Aria is about an opera singer that takes a former student out in the middle of nowhere to rape her. She escapes, but runs into an even more sinister villain. It's a horrific tale of extreme bullying with no real resolution and a climax that's thwarted by a woman saving the men that tried to rape her. Really? A cop ingests white powder you find on some bum? Unpleasant subject makes for a harrowing and uncomfortable viewing experience. It's nowhere near as bad as An American Crime/Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, but similar territory is covered. It's beautifully shot, has a fitting score (the South Korean national anthem being sung by the leader is great) and the settings are great, but it's just too tragic and pointless to recommend.

When egotistical music professor Park Young-sun (Han Suk-kyu) and his young female student In-jeong (Cha Ye-ryeon) heads back to Seoul, South Korea he takes a detour down a deserted road and decides to stop...where he attempts to force himself on his student. Unable to talk him down, or even push him off, she hits him over the head and flee's back the way they came. But things get worse for the student and the teacher when a group of menacing thugs show up. <br/>I have to say the first half of this movie was very good, great performances and a solid plot. But the last half of the film just goes downhill in it's sad attempt to change gears from psychological thriller to trying say something meaningful about the cause and effect of bullying and violence begetting violence. The ending wasn't terrible, but it just lost steam with the sudden shift in plot.

A story that gets a bit better the further along it goes. some nice touches also. but also does drag a bit. a bit of a confusion at times but worth a watch

This movie was...nonsense. Was I supposed to sympathize with the rejected sadist? Or his collection of incompetent, fairly useless sidekicks? I was bored by the half way point.

When egotistical music professor Park Young-sun (Han Suk-kyu) and his young female student In-jeong (Cha Ye-ryeon) heads back to Seoul, South Korea he takes a detour down a deserted road and decides to stop...where he attempts to force himself on his student. Unable to talk him down, or even push him off, she hits him over the head and flee's back the way they came. But things get worse for the student and the teacher when a group of menacing thugs show up. <br/>I have to say the first half of this movie was very good, great performances and a solid plot. But the last half of the film just goes downhill in it's sad attempt to change gears from psychological thriller to trying say something meaningful about the cause and effect of bullying and violence begetting violence. The ending wasn't terrible, but it just lost steam with the sudden shift in plot.

A film which features no antagonists and no protagonists. I try to find a likable character, but fail to do so... each has their own flaw, from the trivial to pure insanity. Bullying is the theme featured heavily through the film, along with some pretty interesting insights into the nature vs. nurture debate, and I admit the directer is able to weave these points in fairly well. Too long to get the point across I thought, with some unnecessary violence thrown in. Worth a watch though, but be warned: boundaries doesn't exist in this film.

characters could be better

Mon avis complet ici : http://blog.hkmania.com/?p=4392 A Bloody Aria est un film des plus sympathiques. Le sujet de la vengeance et des violences scolaires a certes à (C)tà (C) dà (C)jà abordà (C) de nombreuses fois dans le cinà (C)ma, lâ(TM)originalità (C) dâ(TM)en avoir fait un huit clos en extà (C)rieur et les excellents personnages sauvent la mise et font du film un bon divertissement, certes à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mainsâ¦

In-jeong, opera student,flees to the woods to escape the advances of her lecherous professor & mentor, Yeong-sun. When a seemingly harmless local man offers her ride to the bus station, In-jeong thinks she's been saved - until he insists that they stop to meet his friends, a disturbed group of country-bred thugs. In-jeong finds herself reunited with Yeong-sun & it slowly becomes clear that the pair is being held captive to participate in the gang's sadistic mind games. film examines the power struggles that exist even at the lowest rung of society. But what makes A Bloody Aria a darkly delightful surprise is its restraint even though film a baseball bat as an instrument of assault & rape is a recurring theme. The film, by the Korean director Won Shin-yun, is a sort of Asian “Deliverance.” It escalates its forbodde perfectly, with director & actors knowing that the richest zone for shock value lies just short of over-the-top, not beyond it. & they handle the movie’s moments of humor just as deftly: They’re always deadpan & brief, & funnier because of it. Lee Byuong-jun plays an arrogant, married music professor who as the movie begins is taking a young woman & former student (Cha Ye-ryun) on a not-so-innocent drive. He pulls off the road & under a bridge, where she fights off his attempt at rape. As she tries to flee, the professor finds that his car, a new Mercedes, is stuck in sand, & that some young thugs have surrounded it. The roughnecks soon bring back the woman, & the unpleasant games begin: mind games mostly, though the film has its bloody moments. For added interest the thugs produce an unfortunate young man in a sack, whom they have apparently been harassing regularly over the years. Just when you’re settling in for the obligatory bloodbath finish, the film throws in one nice twist, then concludes with another. It even serves up a little food for thought: Which is worse, uncivilized evil carrying a baseball bat, or civilized evil driving a fancy car?

Between Park Chan-wook, Quentin Tarantino and Bertold Brecht, another Korean little big movie about vengeance and perdition, with a smart script and a beautiful cinematography.

It is interesting, but it's also tremendously overrated. All those twists and turns are really not necessary.

many korean movies are surprising! they're done so well these day... including this one... quite surprising how it ended... and i like it very much... mixed with tense, humor, thriller, psycho, a bit drama... well, it's worth to see... :)

First off, the cover of the DVD is way cooler than what they put up here. To be honest the cover was what led me to this movie. I'm grateful that it did cause it ended up being a great low budget, one location movie. Yes, the movie pretty much plays out in one location, a beautiful location however. The films is in a stand still for the first 50min but oddly enough you stay with it. Piece by piece falls into place and the story unravels and shows that it's more complex than it seems. It's about bullies and the damage they can do to you and how it will shape your life. A great low budget movie.

This gruesome film from South Korea is a tale of escalating sadism and revenge, the kind that makes you feel like you should look away, but it's far too tempting to see what will come next. The protagonists aren't very likable in the beginning, and I kept expecting them to find some kind of redemption, but it's not really that kind of movie. This is human nature from the pessimist'ss point of view, and even though it goes intentionally over-the-top for shock value, there is truth in the core message about how violence begets violence. It also works as a thriller, since the tension is always high and we never know quite when or how the unstable villains are going to snap. I had to suspend my disbelief at some points, but for the most part I think this succeeds as an exploitation film and as a tragedy.

Violent tale with darkly comic undertones, this moves at a zip and often makes for uncomfortable viewing.

Bloody is a word usually associated with the British, but, thanks to their cinematic efforts, this word can now be used to describe Koreans. Following such other recent violent Korean pieces, A Bloody Aria hardly has an original storyline. 2, oddly-matched city types take a wrong turning and end up somewhere they probably shouldn’t be, full of characters to let the make-up department have a field day. The strength here is in the psychological nature of this violence. Each character takes on the role of both master and servant in various power struggles, leading to different motivations to become the aggressor. The brutality is not in the violence itself, but in the psychological impact it can have on its audience, with Won Shin-Yeon’s ending proving a bloody difficult viewing.