To begin, Chan-wook Park is easily in my top 3 favorite Directors of all time. Everything he has made is a masterpiece. He treats every single scene of his movies like a painting, each of them a work of art. Thirst is probably his most strange and creative film I have seen by him. He creates a fresh and new story to add to the tale of vampires. Thirst is a much different film compared to Parks more gory films, like his Vengeance Trilogy. This film while still having its gory moments has much more of a comical side to it.
The main character is Priest Sang-hyeon. He gets involved in a experiment where he believes he is doing good and is going to heal people by going through this experiment. By the end of it he contracts the EV disease but survives and is transformed into a vampire. Now that he has the blood thirst, and sexual urges he tries and contains himself so he can still be a priest and serve the Lord.
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The whole first half of the movie is filled with awkward and very humorous moments. It's a side you don't see too often in Park's films. So for me it was great to see his sense of humor really come out in this movie but at the same time make it a very entertaining vampire movie. But about half through the way movie the story drastically changes and it begins to go back what were used to seeing in Park's films. The movie is basically split into two acts. The first being the goofier and humorous type, where we see the Priest learning what it means to be a vampire. But the second act stays more true to the vampire genre, with lots of eating of humans, and the vampires having more of the higher species mentality.
Both acts of the movie are fantastic, and the whole cast is superb. One actress in particular is OK-bin Kim. She is only 22 in this movie, but her character forces her to play many different types of roles. She starts out as a very submissive wife who was forced into her marriage, but we than get to see her grow and overcome her "nightmare" of a life, as she calls it. Each of the characters has a rise and a fall, and the movie is filled with very dramatic and even more intense scenes. I'd have to say the last 20 minutes is my favorite 20 minutes of any Chan- wook Park films, and maybe of all times. The ending is set in gorgeous scenery, and has a very emotional finale. If you are a fan of Chan-wook Park in the slightest, or interested in the myth of vampires, you must see Parks rendition of it.
The main character is Priest Sang-hyeon. He gets involved in a experiment where he believes he is doing good and is going to heal people by going through this experiment. By the end of it he contracts the EV disease but survives and is transformed into a vampire. Now that he has the blood thirst, and sexual urges he tries and contains himself so he can still be a priest and serve the Lord.
http://tgtbtw.blogspot.com/
The whole first half of the movie is filled with awkward and very humorous moments. It's a side you don't see too often in Park's films. So for me it was great to see his sense of humor really come out in this movie but at the same time make it a very entertaining vampire movie. But about half through the way movie the story drastically changes and it begins to go back what were used to seeing in Park's films. The movie is basically split into two acts. The first being the goofier and humorous type, where we see the Priest learning what it means to be a vampire. But the second act stays more true to the vampire genre, with lots of eating of humans, and the vampires having more of the higher species mentality.
Both acts of the movie are fantastic, and the whole cast is superb. One actress in particular is OK-bin Kim. She is only 22 in this movie, but her character forces her to play many different types of roles. She starts out as a very submissive wife who was forced into her marriage, but we than get to see her grow and overcome her "nightmare" of a life, as she calls it. Each of the characters has a rise and a fall, and the movie is filled with very dramatic and even more intense scenes. I'd have to say the last 20 minutes is my favorite 20 minutes of any Chan- wook Park films, and maybe of all times. The ending is set in gorgeous scenery, and has a very emotional finale. If you are a fan of Chan-wook Park in the slightest, or interested in the myth of vampires, you must see Parks rendition of it.