Boksuneun naui geot (2002)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.8/10   

Director:

Chan-wook Park

Escritores:

Jae-sun Lee (writer)
Mu-yeong Lee (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 marzo 2002 (South Korea)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Revenge Was Never This Sweet

Plot:

In Seoul, the deaf and dumb worker Ryu is very attached to his sister, who needs a transplantation of kidney...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Violence | Blood | Kidney Transplant | Tragic Male Character

Premios:

2 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Grips you like a vice. Hits you like a ton of bricks.

Reparto

Kang-ho Song	...	Park Dong-jin
Ha-kyun Shin	...	Ryu
Du-na Bae	...	Cha Yeong-mi
Ji-Eun Lim	...	Ryu's Sister
Bo-bae Han	...	Yu-sun
Se-dong Kim	...	Chief of Staff
Dae-yeon Lee	...	Choe
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ju-bong Gi
Gyu-su Jeong
Jae-yeong Jeong	...	Husband of Dong-jin's ex-wife's
Kan-hie Lee	...	Park Dong-jin's ex-wife
Kwang-rok Oh	...	Anarchist
Seung-wan Ryoo	...	Delivery Boy
Seung-beom Ryu	...	Retarded Boy at River

También conocida como:

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (International: English title)
El nombre de la venganza (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong gruesome violence, strong sexuality, language and drug use.

Duración:

129 min | Japan:117 min | UK:121 min

País:

South Korea

Idioma:

Coreano | Korean Sign Language

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Singapore:R21 | Finland:K-18 | New Zealand:R18 | France:-16 | Iceland:16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Basel-Stadt) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Italy:T | Argentina:16 | Argentina:18 (DVD rating) | Brazil:14 | Australia:R | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Japan:R-18 | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:16

Compañía:

CJ Entertainment

Trivialidades:

The script was finished in 20 hours of non-stop work.

Errores:

Continuidad: During the scene where engineer Peng slashes his stomach four times, notice his strokes. He makes a semi-short stroke, then two strokes that are similar in length, and then a very long stroke on the bottom. All of these strokes are relatively straight; although, when you see the close-up of his gashes bleeding, you see that the first stroke is very short and angled down, and the bottom stroke is much shorter than the middle two, even though it should obviously be longer.

Citas:

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

Conexiones de Película:

References Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)

Grips you like a vice. Hits you like a ton of bricks.

Before you watch this film, just be aware that you're not going to walk away from it with a big smile on your face. More like you'll want to slit your wrists. To say that Mr. Vengeance is a powerful, gut-wrenching nightmare is like saying that DaVinci merely dabbled in art.

The plot is so simple yet so complex. The direction is so elegant yet so hard-hitting. The simplistic nature of the story makes the descent into hell so shocking and captivating. You don't realize there is no going back until it's far, FAR too late.

Ryu is a deaf/mute who works in the loudest factory in the world, doing a really depressing job. His sister needs a kidney transplant, but they don't have the money to pay for it. He cannot give her one of his own because their blood types do not match. Ryu decides to go to black market organ traders to trade one of his own for one that matches his sister. Waking up naked and kidney-less in an abandoned building he now needs to raise money for his own kidney.

Ryu is now fired from his job by President Park, who is downsizing the company. His anarchist girlfriend Yeong-mi convinces him to kidnap Park's daughter and hold her to ransom. From then on, things get very, very, VERY heavy and the idea of who exactly Mr. Vengeance is is blurred and sympathy is felt for almost everyone. Revenge comes at a high price and seemingly never ends. Not that I am saying forgiving and forgetting is the way. But this movie will make you think twice about getting your own back.

The violence is spontaneous and extremely graphic without ever feeling exploitational. Sometimes it has a darkly comic feel to it, the rest of the time it's goddamn hardcore. You'll wince a great deal during this movie, that's for damn sure.

Park Chan-wook directs with such beautifully composed images that are far from the the garish MTV-style action/thriller movies produced in Hollywood these days. I don't want to sound like some sort of snob who proclaims all foreign films to be great and all Hollywood to be crap but it's not very often that Hollywood makes a film like this unless it's a remake. Written in a mere 20 hours in a single massive, creative outburst, this movie seems to have genius laced through every minute of it's running time.

Not a date movie, not a whogivesadamn pig-out movie. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a film you will be sucked right into and you'll be far from happy when you emerge at the end. But what a horrific ride!