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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Chan-wook Park |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Tartan Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Action Thriller, Adult Situations, Color, Crime Gone Awry, Crime Thriller, Feature, Foreign Film - Other, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], Graphic Violence, International, Kidnapping, Korean, Menacing, Movie, Out For Revenge, Profanity, South Korea, Strong Sexual Content, Stylized |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 842498030127 |