History Film / SympathyForMrVengeance

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Both Dong-jin and Ryu became as worse as their respective enemies in the second half of the film.

* HopeSpot: Subverted. While being tortured, Yeong-mi says that her terrorist group, Revolutionary Anarchists Association, will come after her killers if she indeed dies. [[spoiler:Not only is she electrocuted to death, but she was the only member in the group. The terrorist group finally show up at the end of the movie to avenge her.]]

''Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance'' (2002, Korean: 복수는 나의 것; ''Vengeance Is Mine'') is the first installment of Creator/ParkChanWook's ''[[Film/{{Oldboy}} Vengeance]] [[Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance Trilogy]]'' and easily the most depressing and most violent of the three films. The plot is a standard {{tragedy}} that makes good use of {{irony}} as the film follows the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two protagonists]], Ryu and Park Dong-jin.

* ViewersAreMorons: The end, when [[spoiler:Dong-jin is killed by Yeong-mi's anarchist friends, and the film repeats her earlier threats in voice-over to explain to brain-dead viewers what just happened.]]

* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: Ryu's sister requests that if she were to die, she wants to be buried at the suburban riverbed that the both of them used to frequent as children. [[spoiler:When Ryu finds his sister dead in the bathtub, he bought her dead body to said location, but he also had to bring Yu-sun along with him to ensure that the child wouldn't be lost. All does not end well when Yu-sun drowns in the river with Ryu unable to hear her cries for help.]]

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-->''I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you...''

''Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance'' (2002, Korean: 복수는 나의 것; ''Vengeance Becomes You'') is the first installment of Creator/ParkChanWook's ''[[Film/{{Oldboy}} Vengeance]] [[Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance Trilogy]]'' and easily the most depressing and most violent of the three films. The plot is a standard {{tragedy}} that makes good use of {{irony}} as the film follows the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two protagonists]], Ryu and Park Dong-jin.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Ryu had just waited three weeks for the right donor to be found for the kidney transplant instead of going to the black market traffickers, then he wouldn't need to kidnap Yu-sun for the ransom, thus [[spoiler:leading to his sister's suicide]]. Furthermore, Ryu should've [[spoiler:returned Yu-sun to Dong-jin straight away instead of bringing her along with him to the suburban riverbed to help bury his deceased sister's body]], meaning that not only would [[spoiler:Yu-sun not drowns in the river when Ryu couldn't hear her]], but the CycleOfRevenge also be avoided.

Ryu, a deaf-mute aspiring artist, has to leave art school to take care of his ill sister, who badly needs a kidney transplant. Unfortunately he is laid off from his factory job, but he refuses to tell his sister. Out of desperation, he makes a deal with black market organ traffickers to find a kidney for his sister in exchange for one of his own kidneys and 10,000,000 Korean won. The organ dealers swindle him out of his money, leaving him unable to pay for his sister's operation ([[{{Irony}} which cost exactly 10,000,000 Korean won]]) once her surgeon finally gets a kidney. Ryu and his girlfriend Cha Yeong-mi resort to a kidnapping scheme in order to get the money to save his sister.

As if things weren't already bad enough, [[spoiler:Ryu's sister commits suicide after finding out about the kidnapping, then the scheme goes awry and the kidnapped girl is accidentally killed]]. Her father Dong-jin swears revenge on her kidnappers, tracking down Ryu and Yeong-mi. Ryu is in turn tracking down the organ dealers who he believes had set the chain of events in the movie, and he intends to get {{revenge}} as well. Naturally this cannot end well.

** [[spoiler:Yeong-mi. Sure, she's a radical terrorist. But you might can't help it, when she died from the ElectricTorture by Dong-jin, due to the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cruel nature of it]].]]
** [[spoiler:Ryu. Yes, he's a kidnapper of Yu-sun. But when Dong-jin brings him back to the same river where Yu-sun had drowned, he could only silently stood there in the river, reaching his hand out to Dong-jin. Then he drowns after having his Achilles tendons slashed by the latter.]]

* ChekhovsGun:
** ChekhovsHobby: [[spoiler:Yeong-mi is shown printing off a death threats for an anarchy group. This later turns out to be a calling card the (very real) group pins on victims, and one is held on Mr. Park's torso with a knife.]]
** ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Ryu's batting practice later helps him knock a dealer unconscious, and then again to stave in his skull.]]
** NoticeThis: [[spoiler:Ryu recalls that the lake used to be deep enough to cover his head, and it is shown reaching the top of his torso. Come the finale, Mr. Park weighs down Ryu and the water easily covers his head, drowning him.]]

* CycleOfRevenge
* ADateWithRosiePalms: See LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Ryu was responsible for Yu-sun's drowning, so Dong-jin drowns him]]. [[spoiler: Then immediately after, Yeong-mi's terrorist group kills Dong-jin, just as she had warned him]].

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: By the end of the film, all three of the protagonists were dead.]]

* KarmicDeath: See DeathByIrony.

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: By the end of the film, every major character is dead.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ryu vs. organ dealers.

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: None of the main characters get to see the end of the film. Specifically: Ryu's sister commits suicide, Yu-sun accidentally drowns, Mr. Park murders Yeong-mi and Ryu, and Yeong-mi's anarchy group kills Mr. Park.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Ryu's batting practice later helps him knock a dealer unconscious, and then again to stave in his skull.]]

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---> '''Park Dong-jin''' (to '''Ryu'''): ''I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you...''

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: None of the main characters get to see the end of the film.]]

''Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance'' (2002, Korean: 복수는 나의 것; "Vengeance Becomes You") is the first installment of Creator/ParkChanWook's ''[[Film/{{Oldboy}} Vengeance]] [[Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance Trilogy]]'' and easily the most depressing and most violent of the three films. The plot is a standard {{tragedy}} that makes good use of {{irony}} as the film follows the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two protagonists]], Ryu and Park Dong-jin.

''Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance'' (2002) is the first installment of Creator/ParkChanWook's ''[[Film/{{Oldboy}} Vengeance]] [[Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance Trilogy]]'' and easily the most depressing and most violent of the three films. The plot is a standard {{tragedy}} that makes good use of {{irony}} as the film follows the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two protagonists]], Ryu and Park Dong-jin.

* AndIMustScream: Ryu when he [[spoiler: finds his sister dead in a bath tub, having committed suicide.]]

* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler:Dong-jin himself at the end.]]

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: By the end of the film, all of the three protagonists were dead.]]

* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler: The suicide note is written by Ryu's sister, hours before her brother [[BathSuicide finds her dead in a bathtub]].]]

* [[spoiler: KillEmAll]]: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, every major character is dead.]]

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler:None of the main characters get to see the end of the film.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Ryu had just waited three weeks for the right donor to be found for the kidney transplant instead of going to the black market traffickers, then he wouldn't need to kidnap Yu-sun for the ransom, thus [[spoiler:leading to his sister's suicide]]. Furthermore, Ryu should've [[spoiler:returned Yu-sun to Dong-jin straight away instead of bringing her along with him to the suburban riverbed to help bury his DeadLittleSister's body]], meaning that not only would [[spoiler:Yu-sun not drowns in the river when Ryu couldn't hear her]], but the CycleOfRevenge also be avoided.

* [[spoiler:DeadLittleSister]]: [[spoiler:Ryu's sister kills herself when she finds out that Yu-sun is the kidnapped girl. Then immediately after Yu-sun drowns in the river when Ryu is unable to hear her cries for help, Dong-jin himself went on a hunt for the kidnappers of his daughter.]]

* KickTheDog: Three times in the movie.
** The organ dealers stealing Ryu's kidney and his money.
** Ryu and Yeong-mi kidnapping Dong-jin's daughter.
** [[spoiler:Dong-jin torturing Yeong-mi via ElectricTorture, followed by killing the delivery boy]]. The reason this action falls into here instead of KickTheSonOfABitch is because [[spoiler:Yeong-mi was remorseful of her actions.]]

* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Dong-jin and Ryu were asked about what they'll do to the people they are looking for. Their reponse? "Kill them".

''Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance'' (2002) is the first installment of Creator/ParkChanWook's ''[[Film/{{Oldboy}} Vengeance]] [[SympathyForLadyVengeance Trilogy]]'' and easily the most depressing and most violent of the three films. The plot is a standard {{tragedy}} that makes good use of {{irony}} as the film follows the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two protagonists]], Ryu and Park Dong-jin.