There are many revenge movies in South Korea, the more famous is the revenge trilogy directed by Park Chan-wook, which are "I Want Revenge", "Old Boy" and "Kind Gold", director Park Chan-wook became famous internationally with this revenge trilogy, laying the foundation for his status as an international director.
"Gracious Gold" is also the last of the three revenge films, and this film raises revenge to the level of theology, why revenge, for the hatred in the heart, but also for redemption.
Kaneko is a beautiful young woman in her mid-20s who is in jail for kidnapping children.
In prison, Jinzi, with her beauty, honest labor, and eagerness to help those around her, was loved by many prisoners, and called her "kind gold", as long as she asked for help, no one could bear to refuse her.
Gold with angelic faces, but not as beautiful as imagined, hatred has been accumulated in her heart, after 13 years of prison, the kind gold has changed into a person, with her secretly prepared a 13-year-long revenge plan, revenge on the man who put her in prison that year, Teacher Bai, to vent the dissatisfaction and hatred accumulated for 13 years.
In this movie, the most dazzling character is naturally the heroine Jinzi, after being released from prison, she found the family that was victimized, and did not hesitate to cut off one of her fingers as atonement, resulting in her little finger always wearing a white bandage behind her, with her makeup, like a queen's sense of sight.
In the end, the perverted child killer Teacher Bai fell into the hands of Jinzi, but she did not kill him with her small pistol, but brought all the victim's families here, and publicized Teacher Bai's crimes, and the angry people did not hand over the criminal to the law to deal with, and chose to hand blade the enemy, and at this moment, the gold shone like an angel, guiding the direction of the enemy for everyone, and years of hatred also fell on the enemy's body with one knife and one axe.
At the end there, gold knocks his head into the white cake, echoing with the opening overturned tofu, people who understand Korean tradition should know that sending tofu to people who have been released from prison is hoping that people who have been released from prison can be an innocent person again, but jinzi does not hesitate to knock it over, indicating that jinzi is full of hatred in her heart, she does not want to and cannot let go of the hatred in her heart, she wants revenge, and at the end, jinzi bumps her head into the white cake, implying that she longs to be redeemed, eager to start over, innocent.