My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)

The third film in Cho Young-wuk’s revenge trilogy is a strikingly beautiful and poetic story of a woman sent to prison for a crime she did not commit and her quest for revenge on the real killer. Yet it’s also a story of how she reunites with her daughter who she assumed she’d never see again after the girl was adopted by an Australian couple. There are a lot of themes here about crime and punishment and forgiveness. Lee Young-ae gives a remarkable performance and Cho Young-wuk’s direction is excellent. While sometimes the story meanders some, it’s a clever take on the revenge story that I think is worth checking out. I love films that put the audiece right into the driver seat of a moral question: is killing the killer revenge or justice?  This ones does it better than most.  Grade: A-
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