Film· 2002· Thriller

복수는 나의 것 (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)

by 박찬욱 Park Chan-wook

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올드보이 Oldboy

Film · 2003

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Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, which is an informal series rather than a continuous story. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance share no characters and no plot; Park grouped them himself, and they are sold, screened and written about as a set. What makes them one thing: each follows a person who carries out a revenge in full and finds that completing it destroys them, filmed in the same register of long takes, sudden violence and black comedy, and each ends by handing the audience a moral position it cannot comfortably hold.

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복수는 나의 것 (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)

Set in the Vengeance Trilogy universe.

A deaf factory worker, desperate to pay for a kidney his dying sister needs, is talked into kidnapping the young daughter of his former boss. Nothing about the plan survives contact with the day, and the film follows the revenge that comes out of it from both sides at once, declining to take either one's part. The coldest of Park Chan-wook's three revenge films, and the one the other two are answering.