To me Chan Wook-Park is one of the most visually fascinating directors working today. His film's are worth watching for this reason alone. Luckily he's also a sly and crafty story teller, one that challenges and engages viewers in ways many aren't accustomed to. Lady Vengeance is the final installment of what has become known as the Vengence trilogy, preceeded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Old... read more
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The third stop in Chan-wook Park's breathless revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance comes down slightly--just slightly--from the astonishing highs of middle segment Oldboy. Elegant and ultraviolent in equal measures, Lady Vengeance requires rapt attention from the opening moments, as Park unloads his set-up in a jumble of characters a0
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The third stop in Chan-wook Park's breathless revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance comes down slightly--just slightly--from the astonishing highs of middle segment Oldboy. Elegant and ultraviolent in equal measures, Lady Vengeance requires rapt attention from the opening moments, as Park unloads his set-up in a jumble of characters and flashbacks. At the center is a doll-faced ex-con named Geum-ja (Yeong-ae Lee), who just spent 13 years in the slammer for killing a little boy. There's much more to her case than the public knows, and Geum-ja has been carefully, quietly preparing for revenge against the man who put her in this situation. We watch those gears turning throughout the movie, but as Lady Vengeance nears its completion it broadens into an even bigger event than Geum-ja expected. Funny and horrifying, Lady Vengeance is as measured as Geum-ja's own preparations, and has a gorgeous sort of logic about it. As impressive as those machinations are to watch, the movie doesn't make as forceful an argument as Oldboy on just how revenge might be as punishing to the revenge-taker as for his target. Lee is a cool heroine, and Min-sik Choi, who did such heroically exhausting service in Oldboy, is here employed as the monster. (The film's title in the U.S., Lady Vengeance, is different from international title Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, a closer tie to the first part of the trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.) --Robert Horton
“To me Chan Wook-Park is one of the most visually fascinating directors working today. His film's are worth watching for this reason alone. Luckily he's also a sly and crafty story teller, one that challenges and engages viewers in ways many aren't accustomed to. Lady Vengeance is the final installment of what has become known as the Vengence trilogy, preceeded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy. LV may be the most accessible film of the three in terms of wrestiling with the big ideas present in most of his work, namely morality, guilt, revenge, and suffering (emotional, physical, spiritual). Here Woo-Park appeals to audiences in an almost participatory manner, compelling us to ask ourselves how we would respond if confronted with the realities faced by the characters. He does go to e” read more
"The third film in Chan-wook Park's revenge trilogy. It may not be the strongest film in the trilogy, but still worth a viewing. A lady is taken advantage of and wants to extract revenge simply put. The ending is one of the more interesting endings in the trilogy. I didn't say the best ending just different."
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