Sympathy for Lady Vengeance centralizes around Lee Geum-ja, a 19-year-old girl who pays the price for some bad decisions, is blackmailed into falsely committing the murder of a child. After 14 years in prison of earning the respect and loyalty of other female prisoners Lee Geum-ja uses these formed connections from her time in prison to seek out revenge against the real murderer Mr. Baek.
Initially my enjoyment level of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance scaled similarly along its two predecessor films however in the second half of the film I believe the unharmonious shift in Lady Vengeance’s narrative structure waivered a little too much for my liking. Specifically the heavily emphasized subplot involving Lee Geum-ja’s daughter as well as the subplot including the family members of the murdered children. These two narrative devices took a lot of primary focus off of Lee Guem-ja’s character arc as a whole and consequently didn’t allow me to connect with either Lee Geum-ja or Mr. Baek as much as I would’ve like to. Admittedly this gave the …show more content…
I was fascinated by his approach to tell Lee Geum-ja’s backstory from the perspective of her inmates, which added nice kicks of dark humor. Additionally, I did like Chan-wook’s blended use of cinematography elements from both predecessors films Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy. Easily, my most favorite shot from the film occurred in the scene where Lee Geum-ja’s daughter is shown moving on a swing in front the outback of Australia. Where the camera moves in an orbiting axis around the pareidolia lettered clouds.
Even though it was kind of a disappointment compared too the first two films of the Vengeance trilogy. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance demonstrates Park Chan-wooks ability to show the cycle of vengeance in three different ways and comparatively validating himself as an innovator in the revenge thriller
Initially my enjoyment level of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance scaled similarly along its two predecessor films however in the second half of the film I believe the unharmonious shift in Lady Vengeance’s narrative structure waivered a little too much for my liking. Specifically the heavily emphasized subplot involving Lee Geum-ja’s daughter as well as the subplot including the family members of the murdered children. These two narrative devices took a lot of primary focus off of Lee Guem-ja’s character arc as a whole and consequently didn’t allow me to connect with either Lee Geum-ja or Mr. Baek as much as I would’ve like to. Admittedly this gave the …show more content…
I was fascinated by his approach to tell Lee Geum-ja’s backstory from the perspective of her inmates, which added nice kicks of dark humor. Additionally, I did like Chan-wook’s blended use of cinematography elements from both predecessors films Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy. Easily, my most favorite shot from the film occurred in the scene where Lee Geum-ja’s daughter is shown moving on a swing in front the outback of Australia. Where the camera moves in an orbiting axis around the pareidolia lettered clouds.
Even though it was kind of a disappointment compared too the first two films of the Vengeance trilogy. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance demonstrates Park Chan-wooks ability to show the cycle of vengeance in three different ways and comparatively validating himself as an innovator in the revenge thriller