SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE

Yes. A perfect ending for Chan-wook Park's revenge trilogy. Each film in this trilogy is brilliant seen in series or on its own. It isn't unusual for one film to shine brighter than the others in a series like this, but here, the balance is perfect. Old Boy and Mr. V. Everything is equally outstanding.

When it comes to revealing humanity on the love/death scale, Chan-wook Park isn't Kieslowski or Bergman, but that isn't his main concern. There is a subtle beauty and elegance to the violence in these films. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that the elegiac is the form "most natural to the reflective mind," and it may be upon any subject, so long as it reflects on the poet himself.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance plays like an Elegy where the natural and reflective mind of the viewer is bounced back in the form of revenge we want and need to see taken. This isn't (so much) the case in the first two films.

A great ending. Lee Geum-Ja (Yeong-ae Lee) will kick your ass.

NP: Children of the Revolution by T-Rex (Rextasy baby)