Lady Vengeance (2005)

Lady Vengeance: Directed by Park Chan-Wook. With Nam-mi Kang, Jeong-nam Choi, Hye-Sook Go, Bok-hwa Baek. After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.

“There I was, in Sitgesu0026#39; film festival, in Barcelona, where one year ago Chan-Wook Park had won his prize for the great masterpiece Old Boy. This time he was presenting his last movie u0026quot;Sympathy for Lady Vengeanceu0026quot; to end the revenge trilogy.Everyone was waiting for the movie to start, all Parku0026#39;s fans and the lady at the festival announced the directoru0026#39;s arrival. There he came in, the Korean director with the translator, trying to explain the meaning of his surname in Korean, and talking about loads of stuff – except the movie. Finally he thanked people for making his movie Old Boy u0026quot;win a lot of moneyu0026quot;. I think is this personality that makes Parku0026#39;s movies so special. Just like this last one, its a beautiful bizarre movie, like its creator. The audience was already amazed with the starting credits of unusual beauty that just took the breath away from all audience and guarantied that the movie was going to be something different. Truth is that the movie is different, at least more different than his early Old Boy. This time he had created a movie where the story didnu0026#39;t count as much, but maybe the visual side of it, images that contain so much beauty that just makes the movie already worthy of seeing. The story is also really good, charged with all sort of surrealism and irony that makes it extremely interesting. Also, this time the director had treated vengeance with another style, more beautifully and also comprehensive, accomplishing that the audience can identify themselves with the main character, Geumja. When it was ended, the movie received a warmly applause from an audience, including myself, that hadnu0026#39;t been disappointed and that thought the director had done a great and bizarre job to end his trilogy.”