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Lady Vengeance (2005)
Park Chan-wook directs the story of revenge and more importantly atonement. The film follows a seductive woman who is set up to confess of a brutal murder of a young boy. Her daughter is taken away from her and once she gets out, she's not filled with fury and acting carelessly. She pursues her simple and timed plan, in vengeance of the man who framed her.
Her character is difficult to follow, in her struggle of keeping stable emotions, to the point of bi-polar. She can handle a stressful situation in a sweat free composure, but has mental breakdowns in other difficulties. She's like a care taker to her fellow prisoners, and takes on any and all responsibilities when in the jail, asking for nothing in return. Once she gets out her favors are repaid, and she's more controlling in nature, and self centered. We know very little of the characters background, making her very elusive, and she can get away with anything.
The film can get very weird, with pictures of our protagonists face glowing bright as a sun, and a literal moving picture like the one you'd see in Harry Potter. It got to the point of weird as in "I'm a Cyborg but That's Ok" by the same director, a film I'm much less fond of. This turned me off while watching, but while reflecting the film I grew fond and curious of what these moments meant.
Some scenes were so burdensome to the mind, that I still can't get them out of my head, pushed graphically on the issue of child abuse, to a point that most directors would've turned away the camera and let your imagination work it out. Wook didn't give you the chance to avoid it, and much like "Lady Vengeance" didn't let the families avoid it. The film could echo Tarantino's "Kill Bill", except in a more realistic and philosophical aspect. Less gritty fun and more true to life. "Lady Vengeance" understood despite everything she didn't face the worse of the villains evils. She let the people who lived with his true evils bundled inside them, release their rage upon him, in a bloody and emotional scene. I highly encourage a watch of this, it's not as great as "Oldboy", but it has more arthouse elements, and a stronger meaning
Arthouse Rating:
*Minor Spoiler*
Also I believe the scene where she is dragging the dog with the human head and sleigh legs, is a foreshadow in the scene where she shoots the dog with her new gun. In both scenes the face was friendly and I recall hearing a heart beat in both.
Lady Vengeance (2005)
Park Chan-wook directs the story of revenge and more importantly atonement. The film follows a seductive woman who is set up to confess of a brutal murder of a young boy. Her daughter is taken away from her and once she gets out, she's not filled with fury and acting carelessly. She pursues her simple and timed plan, in vengeance of the man who framed her.
Her character is difficult to follow, in her struggle of keeping stable emotions, to the point of bi-polar. She can handle a stressful situation in a sweat free composure, but has mental breakdowns in other difficulties. She's like a care taker to her fellow prisoners, and takes on any and all responsibilities when in the jail, asking for nothing in return. Once she gets out her favors are repaid, and she's more controlling in nature, and self centered. We know very little of the characters background, making her very elusive, and she can get away with anything.
The film can get very weird, with pictures of our protagonists face glowing bright as a sun, and a literal moving picture like the one you'd see in Harry Potter. It got to the point of weird as in "I'm a Cyborg but That's Ok" by the same director, a film I'm much less fond of. This turned me off while watching, but while reflecting the film I grew fond and curious of what these moments meant.
Some scenes were so burdensome to the mind, that I still can't get them out of my head, pushed graphically on the issue of child abuse, to a point that most directors would've turned away the camera and let your imagination work it out. Wook didn't give you the chance to avoid it, and much like "Lady Vengeance" didn't let the families avoid it. The film could echo Tarantino's "Kill Bill", except in a more realistic and philosophical aspect. Less gritty fun and more true to life. "Lady Vengeance" understood despite everything she didn't face the worse of the villains evils. She let the people who lived with his true evils bundled inside them, release their rage upon him, in a bloody and emotional scene. I highly encourage a watch of this, it's not as great as "Oldboy", but it has more arthouse elements, and a stronger meaning
Arthouse Rating:
*Minor Spoiler*
Also I believe the scene where she is dragging the dog with the human head and sleigh legs, is a foreshadow in the scene where she shoots the dog with her new gun. In both scenes the face was friendly and I recall hearing a heart beat in both.