Now Lady Vengeance was a nice piece of cinematography, it was stylish and competent and had the kind of polish you expect from a particularly good Hollywood movie. To some extent I think this may have let it down.
While Lady Vengeance is part of a trilogy its not a trilogy in the sense that it follows a storyline or set of characters from earlier in its series. Rather its a part of a trilogy of films the explore the theme of revenge or vengeance.
The previous two movies may have contained both gratuitous and graphic images, but given the subject it was kind of expected, perhaps its a certain amount of prejudice on my part but I can believe this kind of brutality occurs in parts of Korea.. In any case apart from one scene where the violence was merely implied (it was the beating of a woman) Lady Vengeance was far less horrific than its siblings.
The film itself wasn't let down by a lack of violence, indeed it contained plenty and some other disturbing scenes as well. But the story didn't have the same raw edge as the first two. Mr Vengeance layered itself with multifaceted reasons and inferred the different things that revenge actually means. Old Boy well its difficult to tell you why Old Boy is so great without giving it away.
Lady V in contrast gave away all her secrets quite early on and the movies centered upon how she got to the point where she could exact her revenge. An interesting story but because it opened up so quickly didn't offer the startling twists and turns that I found made the first two great.
While Lady Vengeance is part of a trilogy its not a trilogy in the sense that it follows a storyline or set of characters from earlier in its series. Rather its a part of a trilogy of films the explore the theme of revenge or vengeance.
The previous two movies may have contained both gratuitous and graphic images, but given the subject it was kind of expected, perhaps its a certain amount of prejudice on my part but I can believe this kind of brutality occurs in parts of Korea.. In any case apart from one scene where the violence was merely implied (it was the beating of a woman) Lady Vengeance was far less horrific than its siblings.
The film itself wasn't let down by a lack of violence, indeed it contained plenty and some other disturbing scenes as well. But the story didn't have the same raw edge as the first two. Mr Vengeance layered itself with multifaceted reasons and inferred the different things that revenge actually means. Old Boy well its difficult to tell you why Old Boy is so great without giving it away.
Lady V in contrast gave away all her secrets quite early on and the movies centered upon how she got to the point where she could exact her revenge. An interesting story but because it opened up so quickly didn't offer the startling twists and turns that I found made the first two great.