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SOUTH KOREA · 2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Synopsis
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
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I’m a fan of the Korean revenge films, and I like the more severe ones: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, I Saw the Devil. Those are all films that I love and are very influential to me in terms of their tone and pacing.
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→ Oldboy (2003)
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revenge and retaliation · desperation and moral compromise · disability and social marginalization · class inequality · cycles of violence
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