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31 January 2010 10:28 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

By Charles Webb

It seems that I'm somewhat late the party when it comes to writer-director Yang Ik-Joon's drama, Breathless. Following a foul-mouth, hard-gambling debt collector's tentative relationship with an emotionally and physically battered high school girl, the movie uses its extreme violence and often raw characters to hide a rich vein of sentimentality.

The debt collector is Sang-Hoon (played by Yang, making him a triple threat), and the first time we see him it's battering a john who's assaulting a prostitute. Then Sang-Hoon batters the prostitute. Scarred by years of violence at the hands of his abusive father and a dual tragedy that nearly breaks him, Sang-Hoon is unable to recognize anything but strength in others. Perhaps that's why teenaged Yeon-Hue (Kim Kot-Bi) gives him pause: their first meeting is an exchange of insults and fists that strong bonds are made of in these types of stories.

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