2005 ‘친절한 금자씨’ Directed by Park Chan-wook
After being wrongfully convicted, a woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. While in prison she gains the respect of her cellmates and plots her revenge on the man responsible. Once released, she begins her elaborate plan of retribution, but discovers a horrifying truth.
Lee Young-ae Choi Min-sik Kwon Yea-young Kim Shi-hoo Nam Il-woo Kim Byeong-ok Oh Dal-su Lee Seung-shin Kim Bu-seon Ra Mi-ran Koh Soo-hee Seo Young-ju Kim Jin-goo Kim Ik-tae Lee Yeong-mi Jang Jeong-ae Choi Jung-woo Park Myung-shin Lee Yong-nyeo Kim Chun-gi Won Mi-won Oh Gwang-rok Lee Dae-yeon Lim Su-kyung Han Jae-duk Ryoo Seung-wan Yoo Ji-tae Kang Hye-jung Yoon Jin-seo Show All…
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i think when we pray for absolution, we don't really expect forgiveness to be given to us anyway. it's why we whisper it to the wind and not to each other.
revenge is not the bloody smile at the end of the gun but the tremor in the shaking hands. it does not satisfy, it does not console. it is not gentle or patient or kind. it rips through you and devours what it can. it lies and it festers and it strips us clean into hollow shells of the people we once were. you shudder and you shake before you strike the killing blow. you are angry but you are also afraid.
we are asked to make a choice…
Here is statement right off the top for any Letterboxd friends who have read my other Park Chan-wook reviews. I didn't see any merged characters from the present, past, or future. Not yet anyway.
Now that I've recently re-watched Old Boy, and then tackled Mr. Vengeance, it was time to take on Lady Vengeance to put this whole Vengeance thing to bed.
I read that Park gave a press interview when Old Boy was going into production, and was pelted by the reporters about why was he making another ‘vengeance’ film ( which is weird ... isn't every Korean film either about vengeance or romance, or romance and vengeance? ), but I digress, apparently he was annoyed by the question…
lgbtq community: Park Chan-wook no
Park Chan-wook: lgbtq community get behind me
lgbtq community: Park Chan-wook please-
[gunshot]
the entire lgbtq community: PARK CHAN-WOOK!!!!!!!
*geum-ja takes off her red eyeshadows and put some lipstick on*
me: this is cinema
women plotting and taking revenge against men who framed them while looking good at the same time is a movie made for me
the first half is so complex and somewhat confusing compared to the very linear second half, and the structure of this film was not at all what i was expecting given the first two films in the vengeance trilogy. the storytelling is a lot less suspense/mystery-oriented. feel like i set myself up for failure expecting another film like the first two, but despite that i still really enjoyed it! that second half is fucking great; his ideas about the lingering disruption of vengeance are still on display here in a much more emotional/less physical way, which makes sense since this is the sole film where the vengeance is unidirectional. i like park chan-wook! i'm excited to finish out his filmography eventually, hopefully getting to enjoy them without preconceived notions of what they "should" be, like this one. like to see 'em try and beat the mf handmaiden though....
park chan-wook doesn’t have to go off so hard but he does and he does it for us !
Park Chan-wook's Lady Vengeance is an immaculately framed, incredibly gripping psychological thriller. It is a bleak and gory film, but less unrelentingly disturbing than the other films in Park's Vengeance Trilogy. This is a film where Park is at the height of his powers, using complex plotting and an incredible style to tell his perverse tale. With a bright, contrasting colour scheme (primary colours at first, more black and white later on), and imaginative transitions, Lady Vengeance looks amazing. The score too is fantastic, one of the best soundtracks of the 2000s, and it provides an evocative sense of melancholy whilst tinged with elements of celebratory symphonies. Lady Vengeance is an intense and cold movie, but it's smothered by a warm…
It’s like if Bong Joon Ho and David Fincher had a baby and that baby remade an Otto Preminger movie?
It honestly took me a while to get oriented in the story, there’s a lot of characters that come up in the first 30 minutes and many of them are relatively insignificant, however a great performance by Lee Young-ae makes it ever fascinating. While this is my least favorite of the Chan Wook Park movies I’ve seen, that’s not saying much as The Handmaiden and Oldboy are all-timers for me.
Revenge movies tend to be a very external story as you have a single-minded character who will stop at nothing to reach their goal. Having a character question whether to forgive…
