Three Vengeances Reveal Human's Primal urge for tit for tat

Vincenza 2022-04-20 09:01:55

plot

Ryu, a deaf-mute young man, works in a factory. Her sister needs a kidney transplant because of her illness. He wanted to use his own for a kidney transplant, but the blood type doesn't match. Anxious, he believed in the small advertisements for organ trading and asked them to use their own kidneys for a kidney that matched his sister's blood type. Fortunately, the doctor told him that they had found a good source of kidney, but it needed a lot of money. In desperation, he decided to plan a kidnapping case with the girlfriend of a leftist, but out of conscience, they didn't want to hurt others, they just wanted to get the money quickly.

They kidnapped the daughter of the boss, Dong Jin, and asked the boss for money. After successfully getting the money, the elder sister chose to commit suicide because the younger brother committed the kidnapping. While burying her sister, the boss' daughter also accidentally drowned. Thus, three revenge began.

The boss was very saddened by the loss of his daughter. He found Ryu's residence by visiting Ryu's sister's room, the riverside at the crime scene, and the radio and television station. Inside, he found Ryu's girlfriend and electrocuted her to death. Then he stayed there and waited for the rabbit, successfully captured Ryu, and killed him by the river where his daughter died.

After the little girl drowned, Ryu wanted to get revenge on the three who had kidney transplants. He managed to find the new "organ harvesting" site for the three people, killed them all, and removed their kidneys.

Ryu's girlfriend had warned Dong Jin that if she was killed, the other members of their group would find revenge. At the end, when Dongjin was about to dispose of Ryu's body, a minivan drove over and a group of "terrorist organization" members came down and killed Dongjin.

Evaluation

This is a movie about revenge, mainly about three revenges : Dong Jin's revenge against Ryu for killing his own daughter, Ryu's revenge against organ dealers for cheating him of organs and money, Terrorist organization's revenge on Dongjin for killing its members.

Revenge is actually the most primitive physiological impulse of mankind. These people in the movie did not choose legal channels to deal with these contradictions in a civilized and rational way, but let the impulse of revenge spread everywhere, causing so many deaths.

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Extended Reading

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance quotes

  • Park Dong-jin: I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you...

  • Cha Yeong-mi: The bad image kidnappers get is because of kids getting killed. But we're different. Give us the money and we'll return the kid pronto.