Chan-wook Park's movies aren't for everyone. If some, such as me, consider Oldboy a work of art, others deeply hate it. Thirst falls on the same type of film. Entering the vampire mythos, Park brings us his personal twisted version of the bloodsucking drama. It is all about a Priest (Kang-ho), who volunteers for an expirement in virus vaccination, who ends up defeating the desease but getting sick with vampiristic needs. While drinking blood he remains healthy, stronger, more agile and faster, when he does not do so the desease returns, marking his body. Obviously he ends up corrupting a woman (Ok-vin) who doesn't show the same respect for human life come the blood need. I will not spoil the ending, but it is the kind of brilliance and emotion this director has used us to. Bringing the personal and social drama to a movie about the supernatural is something that we've seen many movies fail at (Twilight, I am looking at you), but here Park is able to really show us the difficulties the characters are going through with their new status in life, and the way that crossing their moral standards affects their behaving. South Korean film-making at its finest.
9/10
9/10
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