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SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE
2002
Director
Park Chan-wook
Starring
Song Kang-ho
Shin Ha-kyun
Bae Doona
Runtime
129 MINUTES
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Come witness acclaimed Korean director Park Chan-wook’s shocking crime drama SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE!
Revenge is a vicious, nihilistic circle in the jolting first film in Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy, a blood-spattered moral tale with a nuanced philosophical underpinning. Urgently in need of the money to pay for his gravely ill sister’s kidney transplant, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), a deaf-mute factory worker with a shock of turquoise hair, resorts to kidnapping the young daughter of a wealthy industrialist (Song Kang-ho)—an act of desperation that sets into motion an unstoppable domino effect of violence that begets violence that begets violence… Cannily setting up a morally complex world in which there are no good or bad guys—only shades of anti-heroes—Park takes Jean Renoir’s famous maxim that “everyone has their reasons” to its shocking, audacious extreme.
The film’s composer, Young-gyu Jang—founder and visionary behind the seven-piece experimental Korean pop band Leenalchi—will be performing at Seattle’s Vera Project on July 8. Tickets here!
“Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music, dancing and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.” – Brian Eno
You can check out Leenalchi’s newest single “Here Comes That Crow” here.
Come witness acclaimed Korean director Park Chan-wook’s shocking crime drama SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE!
Revenge is a vicious, nihilistic circle in the jolting first film in Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy, a blood-spattered moral tale with a nuanced philosophical underpinning. Urgently in need of the money to pay for his gravely ill sister’s kidney transplant, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), a deaf-mute factory worker with a shock of turquoise hair, resorts to kidnapping the young daughter of a wealthy industrialist (Song Kang-ho)—an act of desperation that sets into motion an unstoppable domino effect of violence that begets violence that begets violence… Cannily setting up a morally complex world in which there are no good or bad guys—only shades of anti-heroes—Park takes Jean Renoir’s famous maxim that “everyone has their reasons” to its shocking, audacious extreme.
The film’s composer, Young-gyu Jang—founder and visionary behind the seven-piece experimental Korean pop band Leenalchi—will be performing at Seattle’s Vera Project on July 8. Tickets here!
“Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music, dancing and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.” – Brian Eno
You can check out Leenalchi’s newest single “Here Comes That Crow” here.