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With revenge out of the way his latest subject is the undead told in a most unconventional way.
First off, in most all Korean movies of note, it seems there is a strong reference to Catholicism. (Were they the first missionaries there?} The story starts with a young priest who volunteers for a research project that is fighting a new kind of virus very similar to Ebola. Sang travels to Africa and enters the experiment, succumbs to the illness (blisters, sores, and bleeding), then miraculously survives! One out of 500! This makes him a hero at his local church and people camp outside the compound just to receive his prayers of healing.
Soon he discovers that the vaccine has caused a thirst for human blood and without blood the disease's boils and bleeding returns. He then begins looking for ways to procure blood without violence and much of it leads to laughs. Sang then renews friendship with a family from his youth and he suddenly discovers a yearning for pleasures of the flesh incited by his old, idiot friend's wife. Their first love scene is a different kind of eroticism. She then falls for him and helps Sang procure blood but decides it would be easier for her to help if she becomes a vampire also. The results are not what Sang expected....
This Park film has more irony and laughs than any of his other films and I found it enjoyable even if two hours long. Park fans will recognize a lot of the actors from his previous films and they are all used to perfection. This story certainly puts a new wrinkle on vampires.
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deeply flawed.
"Oldboy," "Lady Vengeance," and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" were different, brilliant, and each was, however gory, tremendously successful entertainments with a very dark message about the human spirit--- about our most primitive violent tendency, that of vengeance.
"Thirst" was, like Tarantino's "Death Proof," a minor effort but still better than those of 99% of the other guys.'
I termed the movie entertaining and humorous--that's all. You say it's "deeply flawed". What a clown.
This isn't Outside, stop stalking.
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rather a film which I saw at the local theater a month or two ago after very much looking forward to seeing it.
I feel it's a disappointment, far too "talky" and it pales next to the vastly superior "Let the Right One In."
After three great films, I wasn't surprised that he didn't keep up the high level but still...... I was disappointed.
It stands at 82% approval on RottenTomatoes, in general but has a pretty low 68% with critics. I side with the latter. It started really well but dribbled down into a repetitive mess of ghoulish gore.
on this one. I probably won't buy it but I liked it.
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gore unsettle you after awhile? It seemed gratuitous to me and I'm not squeamish when the plot necessitates it. It seemed too much time was spent on the actual acts of violence and little, relatively, between them. After awhile, I didn't care for any of the characters. Now, I don't mean to say it was a terrible film; I'd say it's worth watching. But it's certainly FAR below his trilogy.
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