Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

  • Director: Park Chan-Wook
  • Writer: Myeong-chan Park,Mu-yeong Lee,Park Chan-Wook
  • Countries of origin: South Korea
  • Language: Korean, Korean Sign Language
  • Release date: March 29, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Boksuneun naui geot
  • "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance" is a Korean movie released on March 28, 2002, starring 송강호 , Shin Ha-kyun , and Bae Doo Na . It is the first part of the "Vengeance Trilogy" directed by Park Chan-wook . .
    The film tells the story of two men who lost themselves in the cruel reality of revenge for each other. The film was nominated for the Best Film Award at the 23rd Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards. 

    Details

    • Release date March 29, 2002
    • Filming locations Seoul, South Korea
    • Production companies CJ Entertainment, Discovery Venture Capital, KTB Network

    Box office

    Budget

    $4,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $45,289

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,827

    Gross worldwide

    $2,046,061

    Movie reviews

     ( 98 ) Add reviews

    • By Brendon 2022-04-23 07:02:45

      Don't only know about A-level movies, this B-level movie is unbearable to watch

      I believe that everyone has the experience of remembering a movie because of a line.

      Such as Jacky Cheung's classic line in "Mong Kok Carmen", "eat shit and fuck you";

      In "Shaolin Soccer", Master Xing said "there is no dream in life, what is the difference between salted fish and salted fish";

      The big brother said in "King of Destruction", "I'm not targeting you, I'm saying that everyone here is rubbish".

      And today, after watching this movie, there is one sentence...

    • By Spencer 2022-04-23 07:02:45

      endless

      Starring: Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doo-na

      Movie introduction: Ryu, who is congenitally deaf, meets his girlfriend who pretends to be deaf in a special school, and the two develop a good relationship. His sister, who depends on each other, is terminally ill. In order to raise money for life, he is tricked into...

    • By Cayla 2022-04-23 07:02:45

      hatred is a burden

      Actually, I don't watch Korean movies very much, and it's limited to Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook, Song Kang-ho, and Choi Min-sik. I was even ignorant enough to see Pei Doona thinking it was Stefanie Sun.

      But "I Want Revenge" did not live up to a friend's one-year rant and recommendation, and it is a good film. I don't understand the use of the camera lens, the language of the film, and I don't talk about the coherence or non-linear progression. It's just that there are several vines of...

    • By Marcel 2022-04-23 07:02:45

      i want revenge

      After watching revenge, a helpless set of dramas, are Korean screenwriters a bit perverted.

      Although they are perverted, I think I am also used to this perversion... The plot can easily make you understand his next deployment. , there are only three places I didn't guess, one is having sex, the other is the door handle electrified, and the third is the last secret organization revenge; I still have a sense of crisis when the door handle is electrified, I thought he would enter through...

    • By Darryl 2022-04-23 07:02:45

      The method is rough

      As the first part of the revenge trilogy, and the last one I watched, it seems that there are many things I want to reflect, and it is more profound, but the technique is not perfectly combined with commercial movies. As an ordinary audience, It may be a little harder to accept relatively pure literary films. I don’t want to pretend to be on this point. Sometimes I can watch some fast food films that some people think are junk. I think that, except for some films, the director is for him. The...

    User comments

      ( 96 ) Add comments

    • By Eunice 2023-09-23 05:58:54

      The subtitles are interesting, the director's interpretation. So while looking at the screen, I listened to the director's thoughts when shooting and the feeling of seeing the screen. The director is very attentive to the lens and light, and has also deciphered many small details that people don't pay attention to. Now I gradually feel that the powerful director does not put superfluous things in the picture. One of the charms of the film is precisely for these inconspicuous things. Sensitivity...

    • By Brett 2023-09-13 00:14:51

      This movie can be said to be a movie that expresses human nature. The whole movie has very few lines and is very depressing. The shooting technique is very good. Every picture is very...

    • By Adella 2023-09-05 06:24:04

      After reading the revenge trilogy, I can have a deeper understanding of Park Chan-wook and revenge. As the first film, the expression of I want revenge is relatively mild, with a large number of fixed shots and beautiful pictures like a bland literary film, but the expression of killing in the film is better than that of an old boy. For revenge, the director also described the two sides of revenge in more depth, blurring the boundary between crime and evil, and turning hatred itself into an...

    • By Valentin 2023-08-31 22:30:46

      Why do kind people kill each other...Shin Ha Kyun looks...

    • By Bill 2023-07-23 08:34:57

      Park Zanyu is a ruthless director. He has the heart to remove the most simple things in front of you. Every character in the film has no extreme colors. They are kind and simple people, and the story goes on and on. , the ending is even more chilling than an ordinary tragedy. The film does not clearly indicate the reason for the tragedy, it can be said to be fate or retribution, but what I see more is the morbid entanglement of social roots and...

    Movie plot

    Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun) is a deaf and mute young man who has been dependent on his sister since the death of his parents. In a special school, he met his girlfriend (Bae Doo Na) who was pretending to be deaf , and they developed a good relationship. However, my sister has a terminal illness and needs a kidney transplant to maintain her life.
    He wanted to exchange his kidney for a kidney suitable for his sister's transplant through the black...
    more about Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Movie plot

    Evaluation action

    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...
    more about Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Evaluation action

    Movie quotes

    • Park Dong-jin: I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you...

    • Cha Yeong-mi: The bad image kidnappers get is because of kids getting killed. But we're different. Give us the money and we'll return the kid pronto.