Vengeance is messy! so, so messy!

Park Chan-wook is a very talented director. I could never give his directing justice so I will keep it simple: his “vengeance trilogy” threw me in a manic depression one night.

I watched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance on my roommate’s recommendation. Amazing. Then he gave me Old Boy. Holy shit. Then I was forced to wait for Lady Vengeance to come out. It did. My God it never ends, Park can do nothing wrong!

Next, I decided to watch all three in one night; a little Vengeance marathon. Sitting in my cramped room in SF I eventually made it through 6 hour’s plus of all the most righteous violence and sadism with glassy eyes and a very heavy heart.

By this time it was about 2 in the morning. I remember I had school the next day, but they were late classes. So, to ease malaise I took to the SF streets on my trusty 10 speed. That town has never felt so alien.

I guess my student days were so boring (actually, they haven’t picked up in recent weeks, so I guess this is true for my whole life) that a few hours of completely fictional violence can affect my mood so drastically. I mean, I felt like an alien inside my body. Can people really be this cruel? No, you idiot! It was just a movie! What kind of emo pansie are you??

Well, whatever. Chan Wook Park is fabulous. Him and his Korean colleagues make very interesting films. Hopefully they keep coming. I anticipate many nights where I will need to get all emo once more.