Revenge has never been so bittersweet

heartsnatcher:

Three… Extremes: Cut (2004, dir. Park Chan-wook)

This segment I was looking forward to in particular because I’m a huge fan of Park Chan-wook. Lee Byung-hun (swoon!) plays a director who is captured by a man who has played an extra in each of his films. The assailant is jealous because the director is rich, handsome, and a good man whereas he is ugly, poor and abusive (he admits to having killed his wife earlier). He proposes a twisted deal: for every five minutes he does not strangle a child, his pianist wife (bound by piano wires and gagged) loses a finger. In Park’s typical fashion the focus is on revenge, and even in the midst of all the horror there are flashes of humor. (While the director attempts to comfort his wife, the assailant crouches behind him and mimics him. In another instance, the assailant demands comedic entertainment, so Lee drops his pants and accidentally farts, an action that the assailant criticizes him for as a cheap laugh.) It’s definitely amusing, but not as chilling as the other segments in the anthology. 

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evisceratedbyasianhorror:

Cut, directed by Park Chan-Wook (of Oldboy fame), is a Korean short film about a movie director who gets taken captive inside of what seems to be an exact replica of his own home by a movie extra with a grudge. Using the director’s wife and a random kid as bait, the extra intends to delve deep into the director’s mind to expose his dark side, and, without surprise, he succeeds. Running at 45 minutes, this short story is very experimental and avante garde, making excellent use of breathtaking visuals, dissolution of morality and psychological disorder, to tell this short and simple story. This is one of those “mind-screw films” out there I recommend everyone to check out. Be warned, this is not your typical Asian horror popcorn flick. This is simply art. 

~S.L.

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nataliesdrawnbyvomit:

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance was probably my favorite out of the trilogy. It’s difficult for me to choose but it was good enough for me to want to make gifs. :p

hamsterlord:

And then short films of Park Chan-wook. I’m watching “Cut” now.

“Very lonely people that I met…they all hallucinated ants at one time.”

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