Cinema Egzotik: Revenge Night
It is said that revenge is best served cold. Fortunately there are filmmakers who chose to ignore the pearls of wisdom offered by the self-help guides to scriptwriting, like Abel Ferrara and Park Chan-wook. Excessive revenge is what fuels Ms. 45 and Sympathy for Mister Vengeance, smouldering anger is the fuse that sparks things off.
Ms. 45 (a.k.a. Angel of Vengeance)Abel Ferrara (US 1981) 80”English spoken, Dutch subtitles.Ferrara”s legendary and horrendous cult film starring Zoë Lund. New York in dark times, early 1980s. Thana, a deaf young girl, is raped by two men. She manages to turn on her second assailant, and literally cuts him to pieces. Then carnage is wrecked throughout the male population of The Big Apple…
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Sympathy for Mister VengeancePark Chan-wook (KR 2002) 129”Korean spoken, English subtitles.The deaf Ryu is trying to find a donor kidney for his ailing sister, but is conned by a gang of organ thieves who rob him of his own kidney. All that remains is revenge, of the most horrible organic variety…. The first part of a crazy revenge trilogy.
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