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Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu turns to the black market to sell his own organs only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin, who recently laid him off. Ryu agrees, but unforeseen tragedies turn an innocent con into a merciless quest for revenge. Bound by their personal losses and deep-seated anger, the two men are thrust into a spiral of destruction.
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Before he made the notorious cult hit Oldboy, South Korean director Chan-wook Park created Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, an equally gruesome yet elegant meditation on revenge. Desperate to get a kidney transplant for his dying sister, a deaf and dumb young man named Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin, Save the Green Planet!) kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy industrialist named Park (Kang-ho Song, Shiri). Despite Ryu's best intentions, things go horribly awry, setting in motion a series of escalating revenges--to describe the plot in more detail would undercut the movie, because much of its power comes from the spare and skillful storytelling. Chan-wook Park is careful to ground the audience in the characters' emotional lives; when the violence begins, the bloody events unfold with the hypnotic power of the revenge tragedies of the Shakespearean era, which had over-the-top plots and littered the stage with bodies, yet were full of rich poetry. Park's eye for startling images and careful editing creates a visual poetry, grotesque yet often haunting. Certainly not a film for everyone--squeamish viewers had best beware, while anyone who wants their violence flagrant and guilt-free will be disappointed--but cinephiles looking to have their hearts squeezed along with their stomachs will enjoy Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. --Bret Fetzer
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Vengeance is whose? -  |
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance DVD Review |
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Betrayed by black market organ dealers, a man (Shin Ha-kyun) kidnaps the daughter (Han Bo-bae) of a company CEO (Song Kang-Ho) in order to earn money to save his ill sister (Lim Ji-Eun). This sets a complicated web of revenge in motion that is catastrophic for all concerned.
This is the first part of Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance trilogy. It effectively portrays both the futility of seeking vengeance and the raw pain that motivates it. An extraordinary film. |
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Review-a MUST SEE Movie! -  |
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They say there is a first time for everything, well my reaction after Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot - 2002# was definitely a first for me. Last night, I sat stunned for five minutes trying to decide who to actually sympathize with, no pun intended. The story, acting, and directing made it almost impossible for me to decipher who the actual protagonist was and who the antagonist was, leaving my ability to empathize equally split amongst the characters in the story.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the first movie in the Vengeance trilogy directed by the famous Park Chan Wook. His most popular work and second in the series is Oldboy, which happens to be one of my favorite movies, followed by the final movie, Lady Vengeance. I didn't know what to expect when I popped this into my DVD player, but I did know that there was a good chance I would like it. Park Chan-wook's direction made this movie special. The excellent camera work, the unique angles, and a perfect pace allowed this well developed drama to flow steadily. He also took this well written script, an original take on vengeance, and was able to split your mind into sections preventing you from taking sides as the movie progressed and the characters were developed. This was something that I truly have never experienced. The story is based in Seoul and begins with a deaf worker named Ryu who is very close with his sister. His sister is sick and needs a kidney transplant but unfortunately his blood type does't match and at the moment there is no donor to help his sister out. He decides to purchase an organ on the black market but as a result no longer has the money to pay for the surgery. After recently being fired from his job at Ilshin Electronics by Park Dong-jin, the owner,, Ryu's anarchist girlfriend Cha Yeong-mi proposes that they kidnap their boss's daughter and would like to use the ransom money to pay for the operation and compensation for being fired. After they kidnap Park's daughter, Yoosun, things start to go horribly wrong sparking a chain reaction of violent and vengeful acts. The acting was, in my opinion, top notch. I have yet to be disappointed with the cast in any of Chan-wook's films. The film stars Kang-ho Song #Thirst, JSA# who plays Park, Ha-kyun Shin #Thirst, Lady Vengeance# who plays Ryu, Du-na Bae #The Host) who plays Cha. The two male leads have been in three movies together and it shows, they mesh together really well when they are actually on screen together. As for Du-na Bae, she nailed her role of the revolutionary, sexual, slightly devious and powerful girlfriend that would do anything for her boyfriend Ryu. The beauty about this movie is that the your given a lot time to learn about the characters and actually understand them which allows the actors and actresses to stretch their acting wings and deliver a stellar performance. Furthermore, the movie keeps you on your toes throughout the entire 128 minutes. Although it may seem like it is moving slowly, you realize that it actually makes sense even though everything picks up in the final act and is when you start to see some of the dirty investigations and grudge-like killings that we expect from Chan-wook's films. One other piece of the film that you should pay attention to is the use of sound with the visuals. There are many times where there is not much visually but it is the use of sounds which create the imagery in our mind and makes some scenes much more emotional and gruesome. His style is original and is one of the reasons why he is praised by many around the world including Quentin Tarantino. Overall, I loved this movie and thought it was very unique. For those of you that haven't experience Park Chan-wook's work then this is the one to start off with followed by the other two movies in the series. Fantastic acting, an original story, and superb directing make Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance a must see foreign film. Rating: A grungy, occasionally very violent movie that will create a duality of |
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SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE is the first in Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy. It's an initially slow-moving, ultimately very violent meditation on the many ways different levels of society can prey upon each other -- and justify the extraction of sweat, labor, money and, when necessary, a pound of flesh or two. As the story begins, Ryu, a deaf and dumb factory worker, needs to find a kidney for his dying sister. Laid off from his job, and told he's not a suitable donor match, he takes his severance money and trades his kidney to a black-market gang that steals his money and his body part and then disappears. (One well-observed early scene shows our hero in a men's room as a female cleaner scrapes the gang's "sell your organs" stickers off the wall. As she leaves, the gang members enter the bathroom, deferentially bow to her, and immediately slap new stickers onto the wall.) With no job, no kidney to trade and no money to fund his sister's surgery (when, in a cruel twist, a legitimate donor does become available), our hero gets talked into a kidnapping plot by his left-wing radical girlfriend. Who's to blame for all this? The capitalist factory boss? The worker who allows himself to be used as disposable "human capital" in a society that doesn't offer life-saving healthcare to his dying family member? The radical socialist outsider trying to take the system down? The criminals who prey on the underclass in their times of ultimate desperation? Park Chan-wook doesn't offer clear answers. (Even the police detective who is trying to restore order to the system is shown to be facing the exact time challenge as Ryu -- he needs to fund an operation, but can't afford it.) As everyone involved justifies their own solutions -- and takes their own forms of vengeance on those who have wronged them, the movie becomes, as others have noted, a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
It's also proof that, as Gandhi once said, an eye for eye ends up making the whole world blind. |
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Pictures, water, winning, and loss: Everything that is classic and more - |
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Money makes the world go round. That seems to be the motto of the movie, until something terrible happens. a kidnapping turns into a babysitting job that involves a man that cannot hear, and that evolves into a tragedy that makes everything so much more than green. With the accident found out and a fahter's wrath on the loose, a few things begin to happen. People who have some necrotic desires find themselves falling on sharpened blades, batteries seem unchecked until they hook to ears that don't really seem to like this new designer wardrobe, and a knife does things to a person's leg that are horrific to check out. all the while other plots play out, like one involving terroists, a few involving electroshock, and some that involve near-misses. Its certainly not a beautiful day in that neighborhood.
Of the three revenge movies, this was the first I had the joy of watching and the one that makes me cringe the most. It has a graphicness to it that makes the torment all-the-more realistic, and the people that are being tortured seem to go that extra mile. That's one thing I can say about the direction here - the body reacts in ways you would expect it to react when put under certain stressors, and this is enough to make you cringe. Place that with the understanding of why the money is needed, what was supposed to happen versus what turns out to be the case, and how terrible the person feels in this and you have a perfectly tortured soul added to the fray. Honestly, i felt sorrow for quite a few of the people in this movie, something I'm not accustomed to feeling, and that told me that the movie was doing a great job. It also pointed out how accidents happen and how little things can become big things when the world spins out-of-control. If you liked Old boy or simply like a good revenge movie with a nice plot, then this will suit you. It has all the staples that a person would want from a nice movie of this kind, including the speed of the movie and the terrible things that befall each and every person in the film. It has no winners - that's another good thing I think people might appreciate, knowing that forgiveness is not a solution and that revenge has its price as well. The one thing I think I have to not is that it is grapic, extremely so in some cases, adn that should be known ahead of time. Still, in movies like this, you expect alittle terror to mingle with your tragedy. This is highly recommended. |
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With moments of dark humor, this film will have you twirling in your seat when the 'events' occur. The slow pace might be challenging for many impatient viewers, but the wait is worth it. Violence is a part of life and some of it is accidental. Park shares a story line that you will believe can happen to you and delivers it with a dexterity that is rarely seen. |
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