As a tragedy that contains certain social demands, "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance" is undoubtedly extremely successful. We can see that the police, who should represent justice and the rule of law, are completely marginalized, which means that the social contradictions hidden behind revenge and killing have nothing to do with right or wrong and the law. Moreover, the director's intention is quite obvious and neutral. In the audience's several times of watching the movie, he explained that both the rich and the poor are worthy of sympathy, but they also have two sides to hate. Neither favoring the rich nor standing on the side of the people, this is where the director is clever.
"Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance" is the work that Park Chan-wook's style is truly established and the most complete. As far as Park’s iconic gorgeous violence is concerned, it has exposed the narrative strategy of step-by-step management, but it has spent a lot of effort and effort on the “referred”. The organ trafficking and the kidnapping of young girls are cleverly twisted together, and public violence and private self-rescue are exposed together in the sun. It's not fatalistic you die or die, but it is ruthlessly strangled by a social machine.
