Tofu, cake, snow, celluloid - Park Chan Wook’s 2005 slow burn thriller walks a retributive path towards a philosophy of purity. Geum-Ja, recently freed from a prison sentence for a crime she was wrongfully accused of, cultivates an intricate debt of human relationships that culminate in one of the most gruesome and casually cruel murders in the director’s career. Anchored by a female perspective, the middle child of his Revenge Trilogy casts angels, children, blunderbusses, and dogs in a symphony of match cuts, fades, superimpositions, and other flourishes which cement Park as a superlative storyteller as he mines the contradictions of the human soul. Join your hosts as they discuss all the above, and dabble in some philosophical debate on time’s arrow - live white, dear listeners! Live white!
Steve Choe's Article - "Love Your Enemies: Revenge and Forgiveness in Films by Park Chan Wook"
