Lady Vengeance

"Why do you wear such red eyeshadow?" "So I won't look too kind." Holy mother of fucks, what a movie. So I did watch Lady Vengeance once already when I was trying to watch Park Chan-Wook's complete filmography (Still haven't finished it, I hope to do so soon!), but that's quite a while ago now, thus I decided to rewatch it. I feel like I understand it more now in comparison to last time I watched it, as then I was a lot younger, but damn did I forget it was such a heavy movie. I thought this one was the least graphic of the trilogy, but hell was I wrong. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it though, in fact I thought the first half was incredibly strong. But the second half, was much harder to watch. It had some very rough scenes, even though the violence mostly happened off-camera, the sounds were enough to at a certain point actually make me turn away from the screen. The color switch on the other hand was an interesting approach, turning from full brightness to a grey color scheme. At first I thought something was wrong with my tv or the movie, that it perhaps was a censured European version, but later it all made sense. I'd like to give my thoughts on the matter, but I don't wish to spoil anything for anyone, for I think this still is a great film to watch if you haven't yet. Very much so if you enjoyed Oldboy, also by Park Chan-Wook and from the same trilogy. One of the most notable things in this movie was yet again the soundtrack. I absolutely adore soundtracks and often listen to them, sometimes to relive scenes from a movie in my head. I think Cho Young-Wook is such an underappreciated composer, as he did a lot of amazing soundtracks, including for example Oldboy. Often composers like Hans Zimmer and Ludwig Göransson get mentioned when talking about soundtracks, and they're certainly not bad, quite the opposite even, but I think Cho Young-wook is a lot more unique and better. I absolutely recommend giving it a listen, I'll put the link to soundcloud below, as on spotify it is a bit more difficult to find, for it is in Korean. If you enjoy soundtrack, definitely give his other works a try as well. https://soundcloud.com/likebenny/sets/sympathy-for-lady-vengeance?si=ef567a74399b4ddaaf582910202d5a59&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing