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Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance

2002, Movie, NR, 129 mins

Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance: Review

It's hard to say whether Korean director Park Chan-wook's astonishing tale of the increasingly grisly events that ripple out from a young man's ill-conceived effort to help his desperately ill sister is a comedy punctuated by spasms of calamity or a tragedy studded with grim laughs. Either way, it's a hauntingly original film in which the seeds of Park's even more audacious OLDBOY (2003) are clearly evident. Orphaned Ryu (Shin Ha-gyun), a deaf artist whose handicap has isolat... read more leave a comment