Lady Vengeance
by Chan-wook Park
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Actor: Anne Cordiner, Min-sik Choi, Su-hee Go, Tony Barry, Yeong-ae LeeDirector: Chan-wook Park
Brand: Genius
Writer: Chan-wook Park
Producer: Chun-yeong Lee
Producer: June Lee
Producer: Miky Lee
Producer: Tae-hun Lee
Producer: Young-wuk Cho
Writer: Seo-Gyeong Jeong
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Korean (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Tartan Video
DVD Reviews of Lady Vengeance
DVD Review: One of my favs
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far one of my favourite films. The production style alone puts it up with the likes of films like "kill bill", and "requiem for a dream".
The story line is however unique in the sense of how the revenge is achieved. It does not focus soley on vengeance, but also on the development of the main character (Geum-ja) through out her teen-age years up to her 30's.
Revenge is sweet, and I think you will enjoy this film, especially if you liked "Old Boy"
DVD Review: Lady Vengence
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great film to show to people. And along with Oldboy and such.DVD Review: Taking Law in Own Hands
Summary: 3 Stars
A next psychotically-blood-thirsty movie of a female Korean killer taking law in her hands after serving 13 years for being wrongly accused in a child murdering. DVD Review: Those Are The Eyes Of Revenge
Summary: 4 Stars
The last of the "Vengeance Trilogy" is also the last for me as well, I have finally seen all three. Lady Vengeance is definitely not the best of the three but it was still one sick flick. Let's set it off, the film starts out just a little slow and a little weird and even more weird than the other two. Lee Geum-ja who was wrongly put in prison for murder is finally getting out. While inside she basically goes from a sweet and innocent girl to a rather cold and vengeful nutcase. Though she has developed a much thicker skin over the years she still holds a bit of a soft spot but trust me when I say just a bit.
Geum-ja has nothing but time to think of all that has happened and of course it has driven her crazy. She wants to see her daughter that she has not seen since she was an infant. Most of all she wants revenge on the man that locked her away for 13 years. Not the cop that put her away but the man that basically brainwashed her into taking the case for him. Mr. Baek who was well I guess you could say Geum-ja's much older boyfriend is the spawn of her insanity. He is slowly revealed as a very sick and sadistic man and wait until you find out what he does for a living. Baek has been on Geum-ja's mind everyday since she went in. It's weird how their relationship began but trust me when I say that it ends on some pretty cold terms but nobody ever said vengeance is a warm meal, right?
Honestly I don't want to say much more about the movie cause I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Chan-wook is definitely a mastermind at making a film build to its climax. In all three of these films some could maybe figure out what's going to happen and most likely you will in this one. The thing is that the movie ending is written and executed so well that you are not disappointed at all. I loved the actors, some of them were even in one or two of the other films. Lee Young Ae who played Geum-ja was amazing playing her character. I don't know if you can find anyone else who could have played a such a cold blooded woman who still had a bit of a warm heart so well. The entire time you still felt sorry for her character but still wanted her to do whatever to get her revenge because she deserved it.
I give "Lady Vengeance" 4 stars for a couple of reasons. One reason is that I hated but loved the pacing. I say pacing but it could have been the music and overall settings that some scenes become a bit boring. That look Geum-ja had on her face got to be a little bit of a pain. Unlike the main character from Oldboy, that mystery missing from this one made the movie a little less interesting. Basically the only thing you're waiting for from the film is to see how she gets her revenge. I guess after seeing this from two others you want some new stuff.
Now the movie is still very good but it is not on the level of the other two, at least not to me. The positives are that the acting is very good and the ending is crazy good. I say that if you're a fan then definitely get it cause you have to but for you starters out there, start from the beginning. At least you will know what you're dealing with instead of just being thrown into the crazy mind of Park Chan-wook.
DVD Review: The Life of Kind-Hearted Guem-Ja
Summary: 4 Stars
4 and 1/2 Stars.
The third and final film in Park Chan-Wook's 'Vengeance Trilogy' works both as an eccentric character study and a culmination of the themes and storylines of the previous entries. The first film, 'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance', is clearly about the futility of revenge while the second, 'Oldboy', focuses on the hubris of revenge. This film differs from the others insofar as it explores the possibility that revenge may be a path towards salvation.
As a character study, 'Lady' works in clever ways. Without giving away any plot, the first section works against the audience, drowning out any narrative clarity by use of jarring editing, a constantly shifting time frame and the introduction of multiple side characters. These scenes are important, though, as they show us the exterior (or more shallow parts) of Guem-Ja's personality. The side characters are used in a similar fashion. Each side-character's story unveils the varying perceptions of Guem-Ja's personality, which in turn highlight more details of her character to the audience. In the second portion, Guem-Ja's shallow exterior slowly fades away as her past is revealed and her true colors begin to show. The film reveals why she had been so bipolar in the earlier portions - because she has been affected by certain events in her life and the guilt of her actions overshadows all of her virtues. The final act is the culmination of Guem-Ja's 'revenge plot' but there is a twist-she finds redemption, not necessarily through revenge but (without giving it away)having something to do with community and family. So, the film begins impersonally and slowly unfolds, letting the audience know Guem-Ja little by little (and almost no scenes are wasted, the majority of which reveal something crucial about the character).
The movie is far from realistic, though. Instead, it is infused with a kind of hyper-realism and heightened emotion, much like the feel of Greek tragedy or mythological fable. The trilogy seems to develop in this stylistic fashion (even the first seems grounded in reality but is only viscerally realistic; the motif of chance is too overbearing and results in a dismissive reflection of real life) and each film works to refine the last one as an extreme and modern parable using the notions of revenge. 'Lady Vengeance' is, in my opinion, the best of the three films. The first has a few unnecessary scenes and is slightly inconsistent. The second has a twist ending which seems slightly contrived in retrospect (don't attack me if you love Oldboy, I said slightly). This film doesn't try to be realistic and doesn't rely on a twist but focuses on a genuinely complex and multi-layered character. In this sense, the three films work effectively as theory, theory in practice and the mastering of the experiment.
I docked a half of a star for some of the extreme elements of the film I feel may have been unnecessary. Not to say that I personally mind, I don't, but I can see how one could argue that the story wouldn't have lost any steam if the extremities had been more implied than explicit. I do feel that these portions of the film give it a bit of immediacy but, again, the story would have sufficed if they were more implied. The film doesn't achieve the kind of literal and visual perfection of say, 'High and Low', but, that being said, it is directed in a delirious fashion by Park, who here achieves a transgressive virtuosity rarely matched by his peers.
Lastly, don't pay too much attention to the 'Kill Bill' quote on the front sleeve of the casing. It's true that both films center around revenge and showcase explicit violence but 'Lady' is far different in spirit from 'Bill', which is more genre-related and comical (not to take anything away from 'Bill', its great, but I just wanted to differentiate the two for anyone who has never seen one of Park's films before). Otherwise this is a great film with an astonishing plot and a great, morally complex character. Highly Recommended.
Description of Lady Vengeance
After being blackmailed and wrongly imprisoned for 13 years a beautiful woman is finally set free. Now her brutally elaborate plan for vengeance against the true criminal can begin to unfold. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: RThe third stop in Chan-wook Park's breathless revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance comes down slightly--just slightly--from the astonishing highs of middle segment Oldboy. Elegant and ultraviolent in equal measures, Lady Vengeance requires rapt attention from the opening moments, as Park unloads his set-up in a jumble of characters and flashbacks. At the center is a doll-faced ex-con named Geum-ja (Yeong-ae Lee), who just spent 13 years in the slammer for killing a little boy. There's much more to her case than the public knows, and Geum-ja has been carefully, quietly preparing for revenge against the man who put her in this situation. We watch those gears turning throughout the movie, but as Lady Vengeance nears its completion it broadens into an even bigger event than Geum-ja expected. Funny and horrifying, Lady Vengeance is as measured as Geum-ja's own preparations, and has a gorgeous sort of logic about it. As impressive as those machinations are to watch, the movie doesn't make as forceful an argument as Oldboy on just how revenge might be as punishing to the revenge-taker as for his target. Lee is a cool heroine, and Min-sik Choi, who did such heroically exhausting service in Oldboy, is here employed as the monster. (The film's title in the U.S., Lady Vengeance, is different from international title Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, a closer tie to the first part of the trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.) --Robert Horton
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