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Attention, angry ones: Do you have problems managing anger? Are your insides performing acrobatics? Are your hands shaking? Has your smile turned into a perpetual teeth-grinding? Have you stopped eating and smoking because your hands are busy with two stress balls, and the only thing you can focus on is the object of your hatred?
Do you feel like vomiting and smashing apart everything you hold dear?
That's the way! Then you're ready for a trilogy of relentless malice and wholesome, sweet, cold revenge!
Warnings: it's necessary to have some chocolate on hand.
It's proven to be good for the heart and delays artery hardening for smokers.
Light up that cigarette to spite health concerns.
Moreover, it stimulates the release of endorphins, which can boost your mood... so you leave your teeth alone and adopt that sadistic expression you have when you see someone fall and don't want to laugh because they've hurt themselves.
Have you ever heard of a certain Chan-wook Park? He's a Korean director who created the "Vengeance Trilogy".
It began with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Mr. Vendetta), a film inspired by a manga by Tsuchiya Garon and illustrated by Minegishi Nobuaki, continues with Old Boy, and concludes with Lady Vengeance.
What to write...
Do we already know the worst of ourselves? Or are we at the mercy of our feelings?
Regardless of each theme and topic, for me, the noteworthy event is the kidnapping.
??Are there good kidnappings and bad kidnappings that compromise everything??
In each film, the main thread follows the theft of something dear to someone or someone... inevitably laying the foundations for crime.
Justice and/or revenge create confusion. Conflict and struggle are born. Who is right and who is wrong, what is right and what is wrong does not exist. The good becomes a monster, unrecognizable, with the sole desire for blood. He is precise and calculating, having really thought of everything, and when a good person becomes bad... well...
The protagonist of the first film is a deaf-mute with green hair, he has a very sick sister and cannot afford the hospital treatment. To find her an organ, he turns to the Korean mafia, has a kidney removed, pays for the operation performed by a supposed drug-addicted surgeon, and finds himself naked in the most remote countryside. With one less kidney and without one for his sister. Later, proving that misfortunes never come alone, he gets fired. His girlfriend, a terrorist, convinces him to kidnap the daughter of his employer. The rest is better discovered on your own.
The second film is what convinced me to watch the rest of the trilogy. Dae-su is a middle-aged man with a drinking habit, and as should happen to blabbermouths, he gets punished because of his loose tongue. A past gossip, the kind we all hear every day, will cost him fifteen years of his life.
The last, Lady Vengeance, is all about women.
What to say, ladies, let’s bring out the ovaries! We can be really awful with a bit of imagination. It’s a film worth seeing.
In short, readers, these are not three movies to watch one after another, better to digest one at a time, also because there is no shortage of blood, torture scenes, and twists. You might leave the house mentally disturbed.
You'll notice they are all extremely different; in fact, the director ends up changing styles, but always remains faithful to his line of madness.
With a bitter taste in the mouth, slightly teary eyes, and a stomach ache (I think due to the chocolate this time), I recommend to everyone these loads of hours of visual release. I still have this craving for revenge though, opportunities arise, and I hope to seize them! Even Park says that revenge is good for health...
Enjoy the show.
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