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Fanta Masters: Vampires of Thire Own
PARK Chan Wook
Korea2009 133 min 35mm C
Thirst by PARK Chan Wook is, as we know, a marriage between a vampire story and Emile ZOLA’s novel “Terese Raquin,” addressing a seductive theme of a vampire and femme fatal love story. But the film has its own perspective. The union between a former priest who has become a monster and a woman who has felt ecstasy for the first time in her life since she turned into a bloodsucker is really about the highest level of desire and guilt merging together. The long sequence toward the middle of the movie, in particular, where the ex-priest (SONG Kang Ho) kills Tae Ju, his lover, after finding out about her betrayal, becomes torn between the momentary ecstasy and subsequent guilt, and sucks her blood only to replace it with his own in order to bring her back, is the director’s statement that this film is utterly and completely his own. Focusing more on the ethical awakening (after his revenge trilogy and I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK) and the seduction of pleasure, Thirst is probably the most introspective vampire movie ever made. It keeps the audience wondering what his next project will be. PARK has created a unique rendition of a good-man-turned-into-a-bad-man metaphor, of his own despair on this era. (KIM Yeong Jin)