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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

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Date: 20 May 2015 12:17:00
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 02:00:57 | 7,77 Gb
Audio: Korean DTS/AC3 5.1/5.1/2.0 @ 755/448/192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Doona Bae

In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with hers. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs, and the criminals propose that he give them his kidney plus ten millions Won to obtain a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery. His anarchist revolutionary girlfriend Cha Young-mi convinces him to kidnap Yossun, the daughter of his former employer Park, who owns Ilshin Electronics. However, a tragedy happens, generating revenge and a series of acts of violence.

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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot), the first in what has become a thematically linked trilogy of films by South Korean director Park Chan-wook, is a viciously enthralling experience that elicits deep sympathy for its struggling characters only to inflict on them a cruel hand of circular fate that ensures no winners. Park's vision of life is simultaneously humanistic and methodically brutal, and somewhere in the middle lies his unique genius. Few filmmakers outside of Sam Peckinpah and Martin Scorsese have managed to wring so much genuine pathos out of operatic bloodshed.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

The story begins in grand sentimental terms, giving us Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), a fair-faced deaf-mute with green hair whose beloved older sister (Lim Ji-Eun) is dying and needs a kidney transplant. Ryu would give her one of his own, but he has the wrong blood type. Given an indeterminate waiting time for a suitable donor, he makes the fatal decision to trade one of his own kidneys plus all his savings for a suitable donor kidney on the black market. Instead of saving his sister, he wakes up with a missing kidney and his life savings stolen from him. Desperate, he agrees to a plan concocted by his activist girlfriend (Bae Du-na) to kidnap the five-year-old daughter of Park Dong-jin (Song Kang-ho), a wealthy industrialist. As these things tend to go, the kidnapping does not go as planned, which sets off an escalating chain of vengeance that can lead nowhere except a series of brutal deaths, some more deserved than others.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

What makes Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance so intriguing is the way Park plays with his characters and our sympathies for them. Ryu, for example, seems calculated from every angle to be a sympathetic protagonist. Not only is our empathy for him increased by his deafness and inability to speak, but he is portrayed as a genuinely caring individual, the rare sort who will truly risk his own life to save someone he loves.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

Yet, at the same time, he is capable of dangerous criminal activity in the form of kidnapping a child. It is not without irony that the fatal turn of events in which the kidnapping goes bad takes place when his back is turned while caring for a loved one; it's a cruel twist of fate, albeit one that has seeds in his deliberate actions. Further down the narrative road, Ryu demonstrates a capacity for brutal violence, the kind that causes one character to describe him as a "psycho." Yet, because of what he's been through, we have a tendency to forgive his violence as justified, particularly within the cinematic framework, which has proved exceptionally attuned since its origins at justifying violent actions by the protagonist.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

At the same time, Park Dong-jin is just as complex and sometimes contradictory. Initially portrayed as a little more than a wealthy capitalist, the kind who fires workers like Ryu without batting an eye (the film is particularly adept at placing its story within the framework of a crumbling Korean economy sharply stratified by class divides), he begins to grow in our sympathies once tragedy is visited on him. But, like Ryu, he also proves to be capable of inflicting serious harm and suffering on others in the name of his own righteous vengeance. And, because his revenge is aimed squarely at Ryu, a sympathetic character, its relation to true justice becomes all the more tenuous.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

Park Chan-Wook is an accomplished visual director, which almost works against him because it makes his films seem too slick and polished–the work of an gifted sadist. Yet, in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, his aesthetic choices, although sometimes odd, consistently strengthen his character development and thematic interests. Granted, Park's aesthetics sometimes tend to slide into meaningless flourishes and one-note jokiness; he is particularly fond of revealing gags or background humor, such as the shot in which a female janitor is scraping stickers off a bathroom wall and then steps back to reveal Ryu standing at the urinal next to her. One could argue that such humor is a needed antidote in Park's stories–a small respite from the violent intensity.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

In a sense, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the best kind of exploitation movie: one that takes the shock value inherit to the genre and drives it toward penetrating questions that usually lie fallow in the subtext, if at all. Park has been accused of being just another brutal, postmodern ironist wielding fancy camera tricks and a ruthless bloodlust, but I think such a reading of his work fails to appreciate his thematic accomplishments. He's freely and willfully working in a disreputable genre (although the critics' frequent comparisons of Sympathy to Jacobean revenge tragedies illustrates again what a close affinity exploitation has to much classic literature and theater), one that focuses primarily on shock tactics and convoluted narrative ploys, but he makes his films work because he invests them with meaning and sentiment. He takes the time to develop his characters and ensure the vividness of their interactions and relationships before allowing the brutality to take over.
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Audio commentary by director Park Chan-wook and actor Ryoo Seung-wan
- "First Look at Lady Vengeance" featurette (2:32)
- Photo gallery
- Theatrical trailer (1:26)
- Bonus trailers for "Oldboy", "H" and "Spider Forest"

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