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Aro Recommended Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

 

South Korea 2002, 121 minutes
Dir. Park Chan-Wook
In Korean with English subtitles
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Suspense/Crime / Hostages & Terrorism

 

Aroview: Incredibly bleak suspenser witnesses the disastrous efforts of a deaf-mute man and his girlfriend (who is on the fringes of a terrorist cell) to negotiate for a kidney on the organ-transplant black-market, in order to save his ailing sister.

Marking the opening chapter of dir. Park Chan-Wook's 'Vengeance Trilogy' (see OLD BOY for part two), this sports a powerfully nihilistic vision of cause and effect, as the couple venture into a little kidnapping to raise the necessary funds, leading to chain of grimly brutal consequences. Thoroughly recommended to the adventurous.

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • cast and/or crew interviews
  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • extra stuff
  • trailers
  • aspect ratio: 2.35:1
 

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