SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE doesn’t ask for much of its titular compassion – instead, it uses director Park Chan-wook’s sense of style and space to tell complementary stories of grief.

By separating intent and action through a series of salacious plot twists, Park unites the players in grief across classes: deaf-mute laborer Ryu and his corporate superior Dong-jin and the left-wing terrorist Yeoung-mi and organ-stealing mobster families (and and and…) by reminding the audience that socioeconomic context initiates the snowball effect that drives a series of calamitous accidents, actions, and reactions.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "복수는 나의 것” (“Vengeance is Mine”) by 어어부 프로젝트 (The Uhuhboo Project) from the SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 233: SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (2002)

4:39 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, LLC)

6:28 - Balance of comedy and cruelty

19:53 - A fatalist world that feels larger than its inhabitants

37:43 - How it brings the audience into that world

40:44 - Dong-jin + intent vs. effect

52:22 - The Junk Drawer

59:24 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

1:06:27 - Cody’s Noteys – Trylibs: Vengeance (Madlibs)