A REVIEW OF THIRST, PARK CHAN-WOOK

Andrew Ricks Jr from the Houston Examiner has reviewed Thirst:

With the wild popularity of the vampire genre it was perhaps inevitable that Korean director Park Chan-wook would make a vampire movie. The genre seems tailor made for him, with its indispensable bloodshed and his proven penchant for it in movies like “Oldboy” (2003) and “Lady Vengeance” (2005). But Park’s movies tend to also be about redemption,and righteous anger at injustice and evil. These themes temper Park’s gore-filled work with moral agency; bloody moral agency but moral agency nonetheless. “Thirst” is emblematic of Park’s work to to date, only this time with vampires.

Thirst stars Kang-ho Song as Priest Sang-hyeon and Ok-vin Kim as Tae-joo, the tormented wife that he becomes involved with. The method by which Sang becomes a vampire almost seems plausible. This is one of the most appealing things about Thirst; it’s a movie about a supernatural creature that seems only obliquely supernatural.

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Sounds good to me. Are you interested in seeing this movie? I certainly am after the reviews I’ve read.