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Park Chan-wook’s Nihilistic Work of Art 2004.09.17
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Park Chan-wook has become one of Korea’s most talked about directors with the smash domestic hit JSA (2000) behind his belt and his most recent success, Old Boy (2003), which won the prestigious Grand Jury prize at Cannes this year. Quentin Tarantino calls him “one of the most exciting action cinema directors out there.” 0 b" C7 ^. I& L# Z1 R( o" i: {# K5 y
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On the wave crest of his breakthrough hit JSA, Park was given free rein to make the kind of film he always wanted to make. Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002) was the end result, a work of unflinching nihilism and violence.
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6 I% n Q, w0 MBased on a scenario Park had written back in the mid 90’s but couldn’t get financing for at the time, the film follows the attempts of Ryu, a deaf mute steel-worker with green hair, to save his dying sister who is badly in need of a kidney transplant. After being ripped off in a nasty way by black-market organ-dealers, the desperate but good-natured Ryu is talked into a scheme by his sexy leftist girlfriend. There are good kidnappings and bad kidnappings, she says. This is a good one. A modest ransom and the little girl returned to her ultra-rich daddy safe and sound. When Ryu shows hesitation she says, “Is a boiled pig afraid of boiling water?” Ryu, a boiled pig, sees no other option than to go through with the kidnapping.
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" X9 @* m& F% AJust when things seem to be coming off cleanly, one terrible tragedy after another happens. The kidnapped girl’s father, Dong-jin, seeks revenge, while the despondent Ryu finds relief in wreaking vengeance on the organ-dealers. Violence begets violence and the cycle of vengeance continues right to the film’s finale. So who is Mr. Vengeance? Both leads, Ryu or Dong-jin, could contend for the title. The film’s Korean name is more apt: Boksuneun Naui Geot, the biblical expression meaning ‘vengeance is mine.’ The characters seem unable to do otherwise than they do. Rich and poor live in isolated worlds which only appear to connect through crime and violence.
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Streaked throughout with the blackest of humor and marked by cool, almost clinical visual compositions, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance has a quiet intensity that is undeniably powerful. Scenes of torture, murder, and suicide are shown through a static camera to elicit maximum tension and discomfort. Sound is also used very effectively as in the disturbing torture scene where the hum of an electrical generator stays with you for days. Blackly funny details like the four male students masturbating next door to the cries of Ryu’s sister’s agonizing kidney pain, or Dong-jin yawning at an autopsy or eating noodles while administering electrical torture to Ryu’s girlfriend – such scenes induce a guilty laugh while at the same time commenting on a world of growing apathy towards the suffering of others. 0 w, e4 C) ^3 b* F+ _2 \1 S( x% {: T1 Y
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The first installment in Park’s “revenge trilogy”, (the second being OldBoy, and the third the currently-in-the-making Sympathy for Lady Vengeance), the film features three of Korea’s most talented actors, Song, Kang-Ho (JSA, The President’s Barber) Shin, Ha-Kyun (JSA, Save the Green Planet) and the beautiful Bae, Doona (Take Care of My Cat). More restrained and aesthetically convincing than the over-the-top Old Boy, this is Park’s best film to date, a cool, nihilistic work of art.% D3 M- F. G G
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