In 2002, when Shin Ha-kyun was not yet 30 years old and Song Kang-ho's face did not look so big, the two of them starred in the first part of Park Chan-wook's "Revenge Trilogy" "I Want Revenge", without the dazzling gorgeous rendering in "Kind Of Gold", less the suffocating sense of oppression in "Old Boy", but more in line with the essence of "revenge".
Well, why does a person have to take the lives of others? Whether man chooses revenge, or revenge chooses man, perhaps the reason why man takes revenge is only for revenge, the absurdity of revenge makes the road to revenge never end, in this story, everyone is both an avenger and an avenger.
I prefer the English name of the film, "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," a lament for the Avengers.
Highly tense movie posters
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Shen Hajun plays the deaf and dumb but kind protagonist Ryu, whose sister is seriously ill and needs to be replaced, and he wants to donate his kidney to his sister, but is told that the blood type does not match and cannot be transplanted. At the same moment, he was fired from the factory, desperate to find the black market to sell kidneys, the other side promised to give him ten million, in fact, this is a trap, he not only lost his kidneys but also failed to get a penny.
At this time, the good news came, the hospital informed him to find a suitable donor, and the task in front of him was to raise money. His girlfriend suggested that he kidnap the boss's daughter to blackmail him, and he really got the money. When he returned home, his sister committed suicide by leaving a suicide note because she did not want to be his burden, and in mourning, he buried his sister in a stone by her favorite river, while on the other side, the little girl fell into the water and drowned.
Ryu's grass green hair is impressive
Ryu represents the underclass characters, who are the weakest in the story. His physical disabilities, his poor background, and the barrenness of money paved the way for him to be a tragic man who was a marginal figure in a hierarchical society. He can be miserable but strong, poor but self-sufficient, but more often, the bottom people in a state of uneasiness may take the sword to the side because of the fuse incident.
In the film, he kidnaps the boss's daughter and thus embarks on the path of crime, and whether or not the girl ends up in the water, he must pay the price for his own impulsiveness. As existentialism argues, "From the moment a person is thrown into the world, he is responsible for all his actions." "Sometimes we have no choice but to bear the consequences of our choices independently.
Ryu and girlfriend
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Song Kanghao plays the factory owner Dongjin, who takes his eldest daughter alone. His workers committed suicide by cutting their abdomen in front of him because they were dismissed, and he was not moved.
This is a black-hearted boss who represents the so-called upper class, who dominates in his own circles, who is cold-blooded and ruthless because he has enough money and power. He lusts after other people's lives, and to him he doesn't care about anything that is worthless.
The factory owner moved east
Everyone has weaknesses, and dongjin's weakness is his daughter. When he learned that his daughter had been kidnapped, he was at a loss for words, and we felt a little pity for this character. He also prepared a ransom as the kidnappers said, and the money was not as important as his daughter's safety.
However, the last straw that crushed him was the cold corpse of his daughter lying in the dissection room, and he knew that the last goodwill in his heart would be wiped out with his daughter's departure, and he had no choice, and the fate of revenge began.
So he found Ryu's house, relentlessly electrocuted his girlfriend, killed the man who delivered the takeaway, and all he had to do was wait for Ryu to come back and kill him.
Murdered girlfriend
Whoever hates, there will be pity. The film's idea of setting up this character is to promote and suppress. We first see the dark side of this person, that is, his cruel and ruthless side, and then we see his love and protection for his daughter, which is the brilliance of human goodness, the daughter is kidnapped, the daughter is killed, this transformation of strength and weakness status, but also adds a sense of layering and depth to the subsequent act of revenge.
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In the film, death is a time event, whether it is a small accident or the final revenge scene of the climactic part, there is always someone's life that is ended in the next moment. The protagonists in the whirlpool, and those on the verge of being intentionally or unintentionally involved in the "revenge" event, each of them has not escaped the spell called "revenge".
Ryu found three people who had cheated on his kidneys before his girlfriend died, killed them, dug out their kidneys and ate them. At this time, he was no different from the cruel and ruthless eastward march. When he saw his girlfriend's body in the elevator, the whole person was completely angry, he crouched in front of the door of the east entrance, in the middle of the night he returned to his home, and the moment he opened the door, he was electrocuted by the doorknob.
Dongjin dragged Ryu into the river where his daughter drowned, and he told Ryu, "I know you're a good person, but I have to kill you, you know?" He then cut the tendons of the other party's feet and pulled him to the shore to split the body, and just as he was shoveling the soil to bury the body, the unknown quartet involuntarily killed him, and the film ends here.
At the climax of the film, Eastward kills Ryu
Just like the two sides of the coin, behind the malice and murderous intent, there are also many scenes that do not lose innocence and moving. In the noisy low-rent house, Ryu could hear nothing, but he would not sleep when his sister did not sleep; he wrote to the radio to encourage her to overcome the disease and smile shyly on the side; he made necklaces for the little girl and played with her; he believed in his girlfriend's "kidnapping innocence" and decided to send the girl back as soon as he got the money. Unfortunately, he still could not escape the fate of "revenge".
Ryu and sister
Ryu had a great time with the little girl
Everyone dies, but the revenge is not over. It is not so much that man chooses to take revenge as it does that revenge chooses man. Both Ryu and Dongjin were chosen. Ryu's revenge is because his sister's death has deprived him of the meaning of life, and so has Dongjin, so he has to kill the other party, not because he can't forgive, but because he doesn't dare to forgive.
Perhaps life is like a piece of paper inserted into the protagonist's heart at the end of the film, and no matter how hard you try, you can't see the words written on it. Only the fool by the river is immortal, because he has no desire, no desire, no action.