Jury Prize, Cannes 2009. A young priest in Africa volunteered to study an unknown disease. He becomes infected, dies, comes to life and realizes that he has become a vampire, that he cannot live without blood. And then Park-Chang-Wook tells us how the further existence of a young man who went into all serious troubles develops. Moreover, it is still endowed with superhuman properties. This helps him in his life and hinders him terribly. To give credit, the film is made at the highest level, which is typical of this director. Even scenes of cruelty and violence are staged in a manner that does not cause rejection from the viewer. The characters are not stilted violent vampires from commercial films, but sympathetic viewers. Everything is tragic, as it began.
The beginning is like a body horror, turning into a Gothic novel about vampires, naturally with a melodramatic and even erotic component. Then some whistling with comedy begins, most likely folklore and a vampire horror. Questions of faith and morality slide into family and gender. The woman is to blame for everything, but husband and wife are one Satan.
And here is this genre whistling, controversial acting (I probably already learned to distinguish good from bad in Asians), sometimes not logical music, completely confused. I couldn’t get the atmosphere right.
Clearly it's about relationships. But in what way, somehow did not understand. But the finale is a good one. We wanted to live forever, and we will burn in hell. Beautiful!
The movie is definitely worth watching.
Directed by Park Chang-uk, who directed Oldboy, the main male role in Son Kang-ho, the one who is father in Parasites and the Golden Kanskaya branch as the Jury Prize.
An interesting, out-of-the-box interpretation of Emile Zola’s novel “Theresa Raken”, because he was immersed in a vampire story here. Funny idea, and the film turned out curious: so cold, sinister, mysterious. It was very exciting.
In general, the director Park Chang-uk is a talented person. His film ' Oldboy' once shocked and discouraged the world. This picture remains one of the best and most famous tapes of South Korea.
This director has more good films: such as 'The Handmaid', 'Vicious Games' and a new film adaptation of 'The Little Drummergirl' in the whole series. Park Chang-uk makes deep films, and his works are distinguished by their atmosphere, difficult plot and always the deepest drama.
Now before our attention the vampire film director called ' Thirst'. This is the most unusual project of Park Chan-ook. The Vampire Story in ' Thirst' I was watching in the middle of the night, and this movie completely captured my attention.
Immersed in a dark, incomprehensible story, this film envelopes the viewer with something mysterious, dark and very mysterious. A long, monotonous movie looks with interest, because it was shot qualitatively and thought out by the atmosphere, tension, something psychological, as well as a chic acting.
We see the story of a Catholic priest who is loved and respected by his parishioners. One day, he voluntarily becomes a donor of an experimental vaccine against a deadly disease. The priest dies, but then comes to life. Soon he begins to awaken supernatural powers, but the most heartbreaking thing is that he is constantly tormented by thirst. Bloodlust... The Holy Father realizes that he was transfused with vampire blood, and now he himself ' bat'
39 You are a nocturnal bird," he told him, "and I love the night more, too. At night the world is quieter and the sky is closer. The sun does not shine or burn, the air is quieter and cooler. I think it’s better at night, and I think it’s clearer. '
Despite the fact that the story is vampire, it is full of serious human passions, and it is all a novel ' Theresa Raken'. The vampire side is just the surface of the story, and it’s actually deeper and more complex.
I liked the movie. Dramatic fantasy is so cold, psychological, some scenes in it are really shocking. This story is like a sharp painful blade, but the finale was cool.
Son Kang-ho is one of the best actors not only in South Korea, but also in the world of cinema. I am not exaggerating or praising this talented actor. He is. He always plays so clean, so heartfelt and with soul. I love this actor. With his participation so many strong and deep films. Take 'Memories of Murder', famous 'Parasites', 'The Secret Shining' - all these films I love and appreciate.
The vampire in this story is his most unusual and courageous role. Son Kang-ho is a master of difficult roles, and his priest, who is in an unthinkable situation, plays chic. Just bravo. The film because of various good little things looks fascinated, and it is impossible to break away from this story.
Kim Ok-pin revealed in this movie as an actress, and this is her finest hour.
The film was awarded the Cannes Film Festival, and I must admit that it deserves it. This is a dark movie for amateurs 'good', a select movie for moviegoers.
' Thirst' - South Korean, dramatic fantasy in the horror genre of 2009. Bottom line, cool and interesting, heavy movie to which I say ' yes' and thank you for your attention.
39: Evil is an abstract concept. We are immortal, and the doors of abundant feasts and festivals are open before us, the joy of which is inaccessible to the human mind and gives birth to sorrow and anguish in mortals. God takes indiscriminately the rich and the poor. We will do so, because there are no beings in the world closer to him than we are demons, not imprisoned in the stinking circles of hell, but free to walk through his kingdom wherever he pleases. '
The film is an allegory, it shows the struggle, where on the one hand - reason, common sense and responsibility, and on the other - unbridled desires, a sense of moral permissiveness and selfishness. Outwardly, it is wrapped in a story about a priest – the purest of people – who turned into a vampire. In his soul, it's hard. He has helped others all his life and now he has to hurt them. He gave a vow of chastity, but vampirism is not only physical strength, but also heightened feelings.
How do you keep up with so many new opportunities?
How can you not break your word when faced with a beautiful temptation?
But the temptation is also completely repulsed. While the priest was alone, he somehow coped, but when the woman arrived, he had to control her and himself. The role of temptation went to actress Kim Okpin – the one who played perfectly – and in some places and wonderfully replayed! – in the film “Villain”. Here she also did not disappoint: watching the character of the film in her performance is an exceptional pleasure.
The story unfolds unknown when, because there are computers and mobile phones, and at the same time a bleeding person – in the hospital, among the medical staff, medicines and tools – is not bandaged, not treated, but called to him, the unconscious, the priest – for confession and prayer.
On the screen - at first a little boring and incomprehensible, then - boring and curious, then begins some game, and after it - the same game, but another. In other words, “thirst” is an author’s film. His affiliation with the director's work is felt from the first shots; such films are rarely liked by a large number of people, and that is why it is worth refraining from recommendations of any kind. I did not watch without interest, although some scenes were deeply perplexed. How others will react, I will not say.
Lady Macbeth of Pusan County or Korean Teresa Raken
Almost all of the reviews I’ve read on this film are focused on the subject of vampirism, where I think the main idea of the film is to reinterpret Zola’s novel Teresa Raken. Of course, visually the main character loses handsome Oscar Isaac and young Alexander Ablulov, but in terms of acting, he is on top. And the Korean Katenka Izmailova is something. Natalia Andreychenko and Elizabeth Olsen nervously smoke bamboo in the corridor when this Asian angel with the iron grip of a bull terrier slowly and systematically seduces her vampire lover, forces him to kill his disfigured husband, make her a vampire, receive an inheritance from her mother-in-law and very slightly tormented by remorse, enjoy his new vampire state. Why live with a sick husband when you can get an invincible and revered vampire priest? And why run away with a new lover, living on his hypothetical income from taxation (and therefore ridiculed by the main character), when you can become the full owner of a good property. Here our Katenka tried her best. Angelic obedience of the mother-in-law, the appeal to her “mother”, touching care, feeding with a bottle, when the latter was knocked down by the death of her son, her head on her lap, sitting in a wheelchair.
Will we be happy after that?
Poor priest-vampire, after a relationship with a married woman and the subsequent murder of her husband, lost faith in God and his destiny, no, he lost his right to happiness. And his chosen one - she, on the contrary, does not bother with philosophical ideas, and if her body requires blood, then she goes and takes it - fresh, and murder is not a hindrance to this. Her lover said, “How much more do you have to kill?”
A sumptuous finale overshadowing the Gothic epilogue in "Therese Raken" and the hopeless despondency in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk County." It was fun, Father.
The best, albeit very free, interpretation of Emile Zola’s novel Teresa Raken. And it's definitely not Twilight. We didn't even stand there.
The plot tells the story of a holy father who went on an experiment to obtain a vaccine against a deadly disease at the cost of his life. He is the only one who survives the vast majority of people. But is it that good? Over time, the priest discovers changes in himself, and before him the eternal question of life is opened - what is it, a gift or a curse?
We are used to seeing vampires in movies and TV shows. This topic has always attracted people. The choice between eternity and death, the curse and life, will forever remain a question that cannot be answered. Korean director Park Chan-uk, known primarily for his trilogy of revenge, also did not stand aside, and filmed his Korean vampires. In principle, everything according to the canon - blood, cold, insatiable thirst, questions about life and death. Of course you expect something different. But at the end you do not experience unpleasant emotions. Just a little bit of a disappointment.
The main character of the film is the Holy Father. Changes change him from the man of God to the viceroy of the devil himself. I wish I had more self-loathing and anxiety. Since Park was talking about religion and belief in God, please move on. Why do you want to make another Twilight? I don’t argue, it’s a good “Twilight”, but the meaning. It's been muzzled a lot. Love with vampires is a good thing. But not the same degree. Sometimes, Park just overdoses, the other - does not squeeze. It stretches out what needs no representation at all and shortens what needs to be shown. Only the end is exactly what it should be. Not protracted, deep, very strong and dramatic.
Park Chan-ook has a beautiful vision. His Oldboy can be watched endlessly. But this film is little more than original. Well, yes, we have a man who hates what he does because he wanted to help people, not drink their blood. Okay, but is it being exposed? Partly. The rest is clear without words. A movie about vampires who live among us. Do you have to say how many such films exist? And OK, Park did what Jim Jarmusch did in Only Lovers Survive. It was a poetic, beautiful film with a sense of rhythm. Park just wants to look like that. Do not expect revelations from this film, the director sometimes breaks into the mainstream, the graphics leave much to be desired. If you like vampire movies, watch them. At least for the sake of the finale, it's worth seeing once.
Especially after such strong films as Only lovers will survive, Interview with a vampire and Dracula from Francis Ford Copella and some others, it would be really difficult to say something new. But the Korean cinema, specifically the talented director Pak Chang-uk told an original and interesting story about them.
Vampirism here is a disease, and first of all physical, all psychological changes come from the unwillingness of the hero to accept a new self. It's really hard to realize that you're now a monster who needs other people's shelter to sustain life. It would seem that the story is not new, but the main character is not so monster that would not worry about the lives of other people, but not so man that would fight his base urges. And this internal struggle only escalates in the second half of the tape, leading to the only possible finale.
And that the most important visual style of the picture is so complementary to the story that it begins to seem that under other conditions it would not have worked so hard. The combination of aestheticism and cruelty refers us directly to the Gothic novels, within which the image of the vampire was formed. But it does it in the East subtly and unobtrusively, constantly alternating slow and fast scenes.
A good film giving a new, and most importantly interesting interpretation of the familiar not the first hundred years of the image of vampires.
7 out of 10
This is the first Korean film I have seen. This is not the first vampire movie.
Eastern culture has always had a different view of the world. So the image of vampires in this film is not “European”, and even ridicule some stereotypes about them.
This little masterpiece is not about vampirism at all, but about the development of the relationship between a vampire and a person, and then two vampires. A movie about love. But not the one told in children’s stories. And about tough, sometimes insane, leading to the desire to finish off a partner, but still tender and loyal.
The main character is two opposites. He is an abstinent, meek, self-sacrificing “holy father.” She is, first, a non-voting woman, and then a blood-crazed, impudent vampire woman. The only thing that unites them is slavery. He, a priest, is a slave of religion. She is a slave to her husband and family. And then the slavery of "vampirism." Only love gave them temporary freedom.
It is a pity that her madness and his self-denial drove them to death at the “rise” of mankind.
The only thing missing in the film was the atmospheric sound.
P.s. I wish the story about them would last longer. Inexplicable, oh inexplicable.
A parish priest returns from Africa, where he participated in a medical experiment to test a vaccine against a deadly virus by a vampire. To the miraculously cured priest, crowds of suffering begin to flock. Among the pilgrims, he recognizes his childhood friend, whose wife he immediately falls in love with, and she reciprocates him. Every day a vampire priest finds it harder to keep something human. A woman asks a priest to kill her husband.
There have been a lot of vampire movies lately, but it’s hard to choose from them. Usually, all such films are reduced to romantic fairy tales or bloody action films, where heroes in leather capes kill vampires, but from such films you quickly get tired and sometimes you want to see something special and intimate. This film was the creation of director Park Chan-ook.
The vampire priest is an interesting Korean version of the midnighter, and the actor who played him did just fine. He made his character a complex versatile and contradictory person who, although he became a vampire, did not lose his emotions.
The main character runs barefoot through the city at night, her husband humiliates her, she does not have the strength to leave him. She becomes real when she runs away from hunger to the night city, laughing with wild laughter. She is a beautiful and contradictory person, she wants to sympathize, she wants to help, but sometimes she turns into a mad fury.
The rest of the characters are like extras, they are almost invisible with rare exceptions, the husband of the main character, a disgusting mama's son. My mother-in-law is a selfish and son-obsessed woman.
Horror is not like in ordinary movies, there is a lot of blood, a lot of anger and aggression. As the drama of the film is excellent from every point of view, the passion of the characters to each other is so strong that it is impossible not to believe it. This is rarely seen (not about the famous scene in the hospital), but about the relationship of the characters, as it all began from a fleeting glance at the first meeting to their trip to the sea. Heroes open up to the maximum of their capabilities. These are not pretty tales about young vampires in love, they are vampires such as the viewer is not used to seeing them, they live, feel, dream of love. I advise all fans of Korean movies, vampires and just good movies with meaning.
Do you take this man in death and rest of you unnatural life?*
No, of course I love Asian cinema, Korean films never leave me indifferent - they develop the imagination well and may even affect the psyche, which is already interesting in itself. So, the fact is that the picture “Thirst” (2009) of the justly famous maestro Park Chang Wook for the time being surprises and even frightens, but, somewhere after the middle, the pace itself slows down and the viewer gets used to what is happening on the screen. But what you can not take away from the picture is that you both like it and do not at the same time, not every film has such a deed, which already makes it very not trivial.
I'll start with the pros. First of all, the film is quite funny, and in places and spectacular. The plot is really unpredictable, although there is a feeling that if the film were a third shorter, it would be a little bit, but better. I would also like to mention Kim Ok Pin, which is great in every sense. In addition to the fact that she herself is very pleasant to watch, her acting is absolutely amazing. I would even say that she played here at the level of Lee Yong E. And facial expressions, and intonation (if you listen to the original speech that is under the voice) and elegant movements, everything with her. Well, the third plus I would call, of course, a good good director Pak Chang Wook. The atmosphere is mature, the scenery is organic and even stupid music from the radio is always in the theme. Also very interesting is the feature of showing human relationships so unnatural that it becomes curious in itself (it reminded me of the style of Kim Ki-Duk ).
But I have to move on to the minuses. To begin with, for some reason Son Kang Ho, when working under the direction of Pak Chang Wook, is not as bright as in other films. I'm sorry, I'll be honest, I expected more from Ho. Like I said, it’s a bit long, but a little bit long. Also, in a positive way, I noted the similarity with the style of Kim Ki-Duk, but there is a drawback in this, namely, a very peculiar attitude towards women in the film. That is, I know that in the East there are different prejudices about the role of a woman in the family, but it hurts me to watch, for example, two nice girls for a long time hesitate to sit down with everyone at the table, or as a beautiful Kim Ok Pin, and they are treated like a useless toy. Oh, and the cherry on the cake of minuses are very absurd special effects. Yeah, yeah, those 20 meter jumps, clearly on cables and unnatural physics of behavior in limbo. Just for such things I fiercely hate Eng Lee, Pak Chang Wooku, for his previous Winrars of course I forgive, but the residue remained.
Well, it's very difficult for me to sum up. In some components, the film on a confident “9”, in some, slides as much as “7”. Some episodes make you wriggle, some sincerely happy, everything is very ambiguous.
"A Little Piece of Heaven" by Avenged Sevenfold By the way, those who were impressed by the film, I highly recommend watching the official video for it.
8 out of 10
My acquaintance with the South Korean cinema began with the film "Mean Girl" and let it end, but ...
In the home viewing mode, on the advice of one of my friends, I got acquainted with this "masterpiece". It is worth noting that the aforementioned "Mean Girl" I liked. I was surprised by the film with a good story and content. I must say, it is difficult for me to understand the emotions of the characters of Asian films, so the film “Thirst” that does not have an outstanding plot irritated me throughout the viewing, but let’s take it in order.
Plot
The plot of this picture strongly reminded me of my favorite film “Interview with the Vampire”. There are many analogies, from the main character of the “vegetarian”, to the selfish new convert of the local Claudia. But unlike the film based on the book by Anne Rice, shot exclusively about vampires and already from this built its philosophical narrative about life and death, the Korean "analogue" claims to be a serious dramatic story about the difficult life of a strange family of three people and a vampire priest stuck between them. What the film started with and what it came to in the final does not fit with each other. The whole film was tormented by the question: “What is it about vampires?” Perhaps that’s why I couldn’t take what was happening on the screen seriously. I could not fully empathize with the “downtrodden” girl because of the terrible play of the Asian actress and the pasture of her character as such. Well, of course, the good old "And turn me into a vampire too! /i>" scored and worn to holes, did not add to the film attractiveness in my eyes. This description of the plot can be concluded, since all the main stuffing of this picture was a film in the film, but “vampirism” brought everything to naught.
Actors
As I wrote above, the emotions of Asian actors are given to me with difficulty, so I can’t say anything about their play other than “I didn’t like it”.
Music
Due to the lack of immersion in the film of something supernatural in the soundtrack, I did not notice. The music in the film does not complement what is happening on the screen, and in general it sounds faded.
The plot incorporates a lot of what has already been seen in other films, the characters for the most part remained undisclosed (actors and the screenwriter did not contribute), and in general the film did not hook. I am not familiar with the previous creations of this director, on the queue "Oldboy", but in this case:
Park Chan Wook is one of my favorite directors. Films he makes spectacular, beautiful, with its fair share of naturalism and irony. Yes, his films are not liked by everyone because of the rather cruel scenes, but I like them.
This is a very beautiful vampire movie. Fans of Twilight please pass by. Because here vampires are close to those described by Bram Stoker - they are strong, climb walls, drink blood, and do not go out in the light.
Everything is very realistic, without any romantic snot. I liked the actions of the main character. However, he remained true to his principles.
Although here it was shown in close-up how to suck blood from a person, etc. with all the inherent sounds, the film did not cause disgust.
Beautiful and original. Excellent visual solutions, just incredible in the beauty of contrasts picture, and a chic set of actors.
I won’t say the movie is my favorite, but I liked it. It makes a good impression.
9 out of 10
Let all shun me as a leper rotting in the flesh. Let me be deprived of freedom of movement like a cripple without arms and legs.Take off my cheeks so that tears do not flow over them. Squash my lips and tongue so that I cannot sin with them. Pull out my fingernails so that I can grab nothing.Bend my shoulders and back so that I can carry nothing on myself. Let no one pray for me, and only the Lord will have mercy on me in his kindness.
Vampire filmmaking has long been invaded by one-armed and one-faced bandits from the American continent, who extort money from the average viewer, under their guise promising a new story about bloodsucking mythical creatures, in fact turning out to be the same old stamp. Even seemingly well-known and high-budget pictures, in fact, do not leave the beaten paths and paths, only describing vampire events in a more welcoming format to the viewer’s perception. Even the introduction of such things incompatible with vampiric forces, such as a motorcycle (" I bought a vampire motorcycle), or the use of a Negro as a vampire (" Blackula), or even a whole planet in distant space, where vampires inhabit, in fact, the main life force of the universe (" Bloodsuckers), with some exceptions, the situation is generally diluted with a new stream, but the presentation of the material is the same.
The director of this picture Park Chanuk, known for the films “Oldboy” and “I’m a cyborg, but it’s normal”, goes on a different path, providing a story about vampires in his own author’s presentation, genre diversity, which, at the same time, is in a position of balance, and unusualness, strangeness of the general situation, a kind of weird. Maybe it seems to me, but with respect to some Japanese and Korean films, I have noticed a certain tendency for a sharp emotional transition in some episodes and scenes. On this score, I well remember Takeshi Kitano’s painting “Achilles and the Turtle”, where the characters could have fun now, and after a couple of seconds, some kind of drama or even more – tragedy was already formed. There is a paradox of human life in this. Everything makes no sense, everything is insignificant, shattered and savory, hysterical fun is replaced by a heartbreaking tragedy. In this respect, this film also has a share of this quality, but not so clearly described. Emotions and positions change, the comedy scene turns into a drama, and in some moments, a horror film with an atmosphere is drawn.
The story of the picture can be in different versions of perception. On the one hand, it seems very cynical that a Catholic priest who sincerely wanted to help people and for this purpose even went on a deadly experiment, as a result of this experiment turns into a vampire, drinks human blood and finds satisfaction in his lust. On the other hand, it can even resemble a harsh and equally cynical banter on both religiosity and family and marital relations. Chanuk in his own manner varies the action, seemingly deliberately sometimes not creating comedy, explicit and focused brightly on the viewer comedy, but the situation itself looks funny, even somehow pervertedly funny.
In general, the first events of the picture, focused on this very virus of Emmanuel, as a result of which blisters bursting with pus and blood begin to grow on the body of the infected, nails peel off, and bloody vomit, are sustained in a dramatic perspective. But when another priest has already been sent to the world begins to whisper his prayers, the most cynical and perversely sophisticated humorousness comes to the viewer. To a similarly wrapped in bandages of an invisible person, crowds are pulled up asking that they demand to cure their diseases.
Then comedy slowly begins to pour into the action, remember at least the licking of the legs and hands at the first sexual contact of the heroes, their conversations on the boat about the drowning of the heroine’s husband, or the appearance of a wet smiling drowned man with a stone. All this is woven into the general drama, a rare but atmospheric component of a horror film, and the love story of the characters, and now the viewer does not even know what to expect from the next scene and episode. Even in fact, the dramatic finale so simply does not allow the viewer to sit down, but involves a comedic, but fatal desire of the heroine to escape from daylight.
In the unobtrusive change of mood and presentation of material, the film is significant. Yes, and the characters are not baldly Shita - it was said about the priest himself; the lustful maiden, who was belittled by her husband-crazy, whom she sniffed snot and masturbated, and from whose snoring under the guise of sleepwalking escaped to the city in one night, stuffing calluses on her legs from such crosses, came to the Catholic hospital to the priest-vampire to have sex with him; the mother of her husband, who sniffs his fart, thus determining the presence of acute gastritis, which actually turns into the monument. This weird-assortment laughs about drama and a thriller about fun. And acting out the thirst for warm human blood drives the characters crazy. And in general, if you look more closely at all this, the picture turns out to be almost completely humorous, starting from doctors of blacks in snow-white, who for some reason have immunity to infection, and ending with the final.
Two episodes I never understood: Why did the heroine cheat on the priest, and why did he rape a girl in a healing camp?
Korean cinema has long been known in the film industry for its brutality and ability to create powerful dramatic stories. And “Oldboy” in general was probably the best creation in the history of Korean cinema, so it was reasonable to follow the work of director Park Chang-ook. And perhaps “Thirst” is one of the best and at the same time ambiguous his films.
The plot from the very beginning makes it clear what kind of movie the viewer will see. A respected priest in the name of a good cause agrees to participate in an experiment aimed at revealing how to fight a mysterious virus. As a result, with an unsuccessful blood transfusion, the main character becomes a vampire - and the script is filled with such a deep meaning that the main audience of fans of vampire films can simply be confused during the entire session. And this is the main drawback of the new creation of Chang-uk. The film is only for those who are familiar with the art house.
On the other hand, it is just a treasure for someone who is not afraid of thoughtful cinema. And all the elements are there. The magnificent acting of the central actor makes the viewing even more unforgettable - Son Kanho manages to convey a whole range of feelings with one facial expression. In itself, this complex role is actually shown the transformation from angel to devil. Maybe someone will see in the play of this actor only dryness and stinginess – but one only has to look into the eyes in the scene where his character realized what he was turning into to see the opposite. But Oak-bin Kim is a little lacking in experience, but it is clear that she is ready to give up her role without a trace. It is impossible not to mention the chemistry between these two actors, which is especially evident in rough, then sensual erotic scenes.
I was pleasantly surprised by the rather modern, almost mainstream manner of shooting – that is, the author still does not fall into such old school as Tony Scott in “Hunger”. Vampires and here remained vampires – and our hero greedily drinks blood, jumps around the city with a newly converted mistress and generally does not depart from the mystical image of a supernatural creature. As usual, the film is shot in a very candid manner, not to mention the fact that there is also a lot of blood spilled - but without all this, of course, the effect that Asian directors always try to achieve would not be achieved. Cinematography gently slides from the kitchen, where the horror of the massacre takes place, into a room where a young vampire greedily snuggles up to her victim. Musical accompaniment still consists of pathos and tearful notes, but in this context it is more than appropriate.
After all, despite the phantasmagoric genre, a real drama unfolds before the eyes of the beholder. The carefully veiled meaning of everything that happens begins to appear closer to the denouement. Although this does not deny the fact that everyone is free to interpret what he saw in his own way. It is worth forgetting about the usual concept of vampire cinema - while it is impossible to say that the author started all this to deal with stereotypes. It was just more convenient for him, because somehow you can stuff as many philosophical allusions into this genre as possible, which are almost impossible to catch in one view. The obvious religious motive first comes to mind, because it is impossible not to notice it - the story of the man whose fall we are forced to watch even resembles something of Gibson's "Passion of the Christ", for it is quite clear that in our case a vampire is an unequivocal martyr. Swearing even after his death, but so weak as all men, it will not be long before he becomes involved in a vicious relationship with a married woman. And then there will be a whole series of fatal mistakes, for which there will definitely be a reckoning. After all, among other things, he brought into this world a creature even more terrible than himself - because of his feelings, he does not dare to leave a selfish girl dead. The angels of death are the angels of death, and we see that they are the angels of death. In addition to all of the above, the material about this film will be enough for a whole book - even if this is in my opinion and overkill, since even if there were no other hidden ideas, the movie would still be multi-layered.
But the fact that with a two-hour timekeeping, the film flies unnoticed cannot but rejoice. With so much content. And in the 21st century, according to the totality of merits, “Thirst” can generally be ranked among the best films on a vampire theme.
Very difficult, but worth the effort of the film, sharpened for a certain audience. Lovers of helpless Twilight have nothing to do here - this is the territory of greater, serious art.
8.5 out of 10
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 Original