Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | S3 E9 | Part 1 of The Vengeance Trilogy is seriously underrated

What’s really great about Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is that it captures how revenge never ends well. It creates a cycle that cannot be stopped and has unintended consequences that can backfire on the ones you love the most. By the end of the film, you find yourself asking, ‘Who actually is Mr. Vengeance?’

To be honest, we weren’t expecting much from this film, but it’s excellent and criminally underrated. In short, it follows a deaf-mute who, with his anti-fascist girlfriend, decides to kidnap his ex-boss’s daughter for ransom to pay for his sister’s kidney transplant (and that’s all we’ll say for now).

Tobias and Craig made the excellent decision to watch the entirety of Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy—Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance. In the next two episodes, we’ll cover parts 2 and 3—the critically acclaimed Oldboy and Lady Vengeance.

Apologies again for Tobias’s poor audio! At points, his laptop sounds like a roaring F1 car. We’ll buy him a new one one day.

Enjoy!

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