Excellent ... Awful.. Terrible

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2007)

This is the second in the "Vengeance trilogy" by director Park Chan-wook and third of my Korean movie hitch-hike.
This is an excellent movie in many aspects. A dark theme coupled with brilliant acting, direction n production system.
It re-defines the age of dark movies. And yet in spite of all that brilliance, for people like me, It just cannot be watched for a second time... Once you know the story.
"Even though I am no worse than a beast, Don't I have a right to live?" asks Min-sik Choi in the end.. The question is asked to the audience as well, challenging morality and given as a justification for the lead characters choice...
No matter what the director wants us to believe, I think it's just not conceivable for a father to choose to have physical relation with his daughter, even after knowing that she is his daughter.
This is perhaps the only brilliant movie by which I was awed and yet promised myself not to watch it again.. It disturbs the very fabric of our beliefs and attempts to provide justification for a father - daughter physical relationship...
On the bigger prospective I have developed a definitive respect for Korean cinema.
I wish I had read the plot before I watched it.. so that I would never have watched it...