Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan Geumjassi) is a 2005 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. In North America and parts of Europe, it is known as Lady Vengeance. It has won many awards, one being Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in 2005.
Lady Vengeance is about a Korean woman, Geum-ja Lee, who has just come out of prison, where she spend 13 1/2 years after being accused of murdering a little boy. Geum-ja Lee did not actually kill the little boy, but she did help the murdered. She was forced to take the blame, if she didn't the man would have killed her daughter. Now that she is out, she in in search of her daughter and in search of vengeance for the man who killed the little boy. During her life in prison, she helped many nice women, but also killed evil women. She always did it in a sly way, being known in prison for a woman of prayer and kindness. She used that to her advantage to gain allies for her vengeance plan after prison. Once she is out of prison, she reconnects with her fellow prison allies and begins with he vengeance. She also finds her daughter and brings her to Korea, she had been in Australia where a couple adopted her. Once she finally finds the man who killed the little boy, she is ready to kill him, but things change when she founds out he has killed multiple children. She finds videos of all the murders and she reunites the victims families to see these videos. She uses the families anger to help with the murder of this man. Each family gets a chance of vengeance, resulting in a brutal death for the man.
This movie was absolutely amazing!!! Thank you Mo for the recommendation! Wow, where to start. So, here are some things I really liked about the film. The film was non-linear, going back and forth with her life after prison and during prison. The film begins with Geum-ja Lee coming out of prison, but we get to see her whole life in prison and the reason to why she is in prison throughout the whole film through flashbacks. Really well made non-linear narrative. Next, there were some sick effect in the film. For example, during one flashback, the scene changes with a door opening to a flashback with the previous frame staying on the door. The frame becomes attached to the door and once the door opens, the frame stays on the door of the next scene. Hard to explain but it was pretty cool. There were tons of awesome effects in this film. Going on, I love long shots and in this film there is a lot! One that I particularly like is when Geum-ja Lee goes to the orphanage to find her daughter. The camera is positioned outside of the window looking down at the street, moves back into the building, through the window, passing a secretary on her desk and then turning and facing Geum-ja Lee. Really awesome scene! There were a lot of long shots going around rooms and at the end a sick one where the camera follows a wire from one room all across a building to another room. Definitely some special effects in that scene, not all camera work probably, but still super sick! Oh god, I can keep going about so many awesome things in this film. Last, there were some awesome slow motion scenes that added tension and suspense to the film.
GO WATCH THIS FILM!! I absolutely loved this film! Such amazing camera work, special effects and sick story. Definitely becoming one of my favorite films. So go watch it because it is definitely a MUST SEE film!
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