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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ( Boksuneun naui geot ) (2002) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
679 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.02/4 |
# of Ratings: |
72 |
Genres: |
Drama, Thriller |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
Korean |
Theater Date: | 03/29/2002 |
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Director: |
Chan-wook Park |
Actors: |
Kang-ho Song
Ha-kyun Shin
Du-na Bae
Ji-Eun Lim
Bo-bae Han
Se-dong Kim |
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Plot Outline:
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A man desperately wants to save his sister from dying of kidney failure - but he goes from being conned in a black market operation to kidnaping the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. As things go from bad to worse, anger and revenge take over.
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mitchellyoung 01/27/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
As a beginning of Chan-wook Park's revenge trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is brutal and emotionally-scarring. The film is, visually, a masterwork (especially with the way Park plays with negative space and wide shots to reduce emotionality), and, plotwise, packs quite a punch, as well. |
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Chris Kavan 02/19/2007 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
If revenge is a dish best served cold, Chan-wook Park serves his in Siberia. The first in the "vengeance" trilogy comes at you fast and furious. You won't know who to hate and who to sympathize with in this film. In the end that's the point |
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05/24/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance review |
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The first from the The Vengeance Trilogy. Compared to Lady Vengeance and Oldboy, this had more long tracking shots and slow pace. Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), is a deaf-mute man trying to aid his sister to have a kidney but gets fired. Yeong-mi (Bae Doona), Ryu's radical anarchist girlfriend suggests that he kidnap Yu-sun, the daughter of factory President Park. The humor in the beginning turns to a dark crime drama. The detective Choi was not much emphasized and score not as enticing. Highlights would be the engaging story and powerful acting. Song Kang-ho just expresses sadness and a look of revenge, which makes him an unlikely killer. The defying line from the picture: "But why? I don't understand." from Pres. Park. It definitely encompasses the themes of karma, unexpected deaths, sui... |
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3/4 |
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04/05/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance" by Yojimbo |
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A deaf-mute tries to sell a kidney on the black market to pay for a life saving operation for his sister, but when he wakes up left for dead minus both the money and his kidney he hatches a scheme to kidnap his ex-boss' daughter for the ransom. When she is accidentally killed it sets in motion a sequence of events that result in bloody vengeance for both men. The first chapter in Chan-wook Park's vengeance trilogy reminded me very much of a Tikeshi Kitano film; beautifully shot but very understated with moments of surreal humour, brief outbursts of grim violence and a typically nihilistic ending. He attempts to show the motivations and context of the actions of all involved and so the brutal acts of vengeance perpetrated by the characters who have become increasingly black-hearted through... |
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