The story of a vampire
A vampire drama about love, with a lot of horror and mysticism. This is the best way to describe the film by starting to talk about it. Yes, drama. Yes, love. But still, first of all - a horror film, vampire movies and Gothic.
Chang Wook Park’s specific handwriting and arthouse manner give even more depth and gothicness to this film. It is in this specificity, light protractedness and slowness of the narrative that all the highlights are hidden, combined in the right balance of tragedy and horror. A lot of really spectacular and tense, in some places this suspense fascinates and makes you worry even for completely unnecessary and little revealed characters. A lot of violence and a lot of blood, that's what a vampire movie should be. And besides, how can vampire and Gothic do without beautiful eroticism? And therefore this charm is here in abundance, adding saturation and color to all emotions and passion happening on the screen.
The story is about a young priest and a young nymphet, whose life is as strange and specific as the film itself. Two strange men on the road leading on one side to the sun, and on the other at the same time to hell's agony and agony. All the tight tangle is combined in the most proper proportions, and does not cross the border anywhere. Full of mysticism and even nonsense, the film is nevertheless serious and very logical. You believe this story as much as you do when you sit and watch it. The characters are open and lively, very emotionally played by a talented cast. All the pronounced conflicts of the problems raised, options for their solution and the search for these solutions are on the face. And the film does not seem trivial even though its denouement is quite accessible to understand and realize the logic of the outcome.
Under one mask of vampire-Gothic horror, horrors, drama, thriller, and even a comedy of easy absurdity merged at once. Styles alternate, and history flows smoothly from event to event, plunging deep into problems and relationships. A beautiful love story, devoid of Hollywood gloss and glamour, completely authorial and art house, and at the same time simple and accessible to the mass audience.
“Thirst” is difficult to call a masterpiece, but you must see it, despite its minuses and not ideality. And this is one of those rare cases when the minuses can be turned into pluses, nodding at the specifics of the narrative and the variety of problems raised. And in fact, this is just the story of one vampire, whose love could be beautiful, but turned out to be real and still very touching and beautiful. Beautiful and competent work filled with meaning. I highly recommend watching.
8 IZ 10
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