✅ The theme follows the House of Atreus rather than the Bible, starkly spiked with dark humor.
✅ The nearly static “action” shots make the grizzly violence extra outlandish.
✅ Almost experimental cinematography; sickly green/tungsten lighting with chromatic aberrations; terrific cut that collapses expectations and bleeds opposites into each other.
The English title, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, is finest nonsense. Maybe they feared being sued by God or Mickey Spillane.
복수는 나의 것 by Park Chan-wook, 2002.
Watched at the Bambi theater on February 24, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.