History YMMV / SympathyForMrVengeance

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Ryu's deal with the black market organ dealers. What was he expecting?
** One wonders why they left him alive after stealing his money and an organ. What were they expecting?
** Again with the organ dealers, [[spoiler:Ryu turning his back on the mother while he bashed at the skull of her surviving son, without having done anything to incapacitate her.]]
** The plot hinges on one of these: [[spoiler:there was absolutely no need to bring Yu-sun to the river rather thatn directly back home once the money arrived, especially without a person who could hear around to watch over her.]]
** [[spoiler: Why would you leave pictures of the girl you kidnapped lying around your apartment in plain view?]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The credits appear to have Dong-jin's dying muttering over them.

* {{Squick}}: In addition to the autopsies, there's a couple close ups of slash wounds, and they are ''not'' pretty.

** Ryu's next door neighbors masturbating to what they assume are orgasm moans. When the chamera pans over to Ryu's apartment, it's really moans of agony of his sister rolling in pain.
* UncannyValley: The mentally disabled man at the river.

* AlasPoorVillain: Even though the main characters themselves have done quite a number of bad deeds, the tragedy of the ensuing CycleOfRevenge, due to RousseauWasRight, make them feel like this in spite of it.
** [[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.]]

** One wonders why they left him alive after stealing his money and an organ. What were they expecting?

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dong-jin torturing Yeong-mi to death first shows that he's really no better than the kidnappers.]]

** [[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 tendon slashed by the latter.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Even though the main characters themselves have done quite a number of bad deeds, the tragedy of the CycleOfRevenge make them feel like this in spite of it.

* AlasPoorVillain:

* AlasPoorVillain: [[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]].]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Dong-jin possibly becomes one after he kills the delivery boy and tortures Yeong-mi to death.]]

* CompleteMonster: Dong-jin possibly becomes one after [[spoiler:he kills the delivery boy and tortures Yeong-mi to death.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Any feeling that Dong-jin was better than the kidnappers is lost after [[spoiler:he tortures Yeong-mi to death.]]

* AlasPoorVillain:[[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 tendon slashed by the latter.]]

* CompleteMonster: Dong-jin possibly becomes one after [[spoiler: he kills the delivery boy and tortures Yeong-mi to death.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dong-jin torturing Yeong-mi to death first shows that he's really no better than the kidnappers.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Dong-jin possibly becomes one after he kills the delivery boy and tortures Yeong-mi to death.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Both [[spoiler: Yeong-mi and Ryu.]]
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The man who appears to have cerebral palsy and hangs out around the river bank. It's never really addressed who the heck he is or why he's there.

* {{Squick}}: In addition to the autopsies, there's a couple close ups of slash wounds, and they are ''not'' pretty.
* UncannyValley: The mentally disabled man at the river.
* WhatAnIdiot:

** One wonders why they left him alive after stealing his money and an organ. What were they expecting?

* CompleteMonster: The amoral organ dealers themselves. They are remorseless in exploiting their victims into thinking that they were performing surgery, just so as to kill them and take their organs. [[WhatAnIdiot To their misfortune]], they left Ryu alive after stealing his life savings and his kidney. Needless to say, [[TheDogBitesBack their deaths by said guy]] came off as LaserGuidedKarma.
** [[spoiler: Dong-jin possibly becomes one after he kills the delivery boy and tortures Yeong-mi to death.]]

* JerkassWoobie: The three main charcters: Dong-jin, Ryu and Yeong-mi.

* JerkassWoobie: The three main charcters: Ryu, Yeong-mi and Dong-jin.

* CompleteMonster: The amoral organ dealers themselves. They are remorseless in exploiting their victims into thinking that they were performing surgery, just so as to kill them and take their organs.

* JerkassWoobie: The three main charcters: Dong-jin, Ryu and Yeong-mi.

* JerkassWoobie: The three main charcters: Dong-jin, Yeong-mi and Ryu.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Yeong-mi.]]

* AlasPoorVillain