is this a comedy?
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stelpower — 19 years ago(November 16, 2006 02:05 PM)
It depends on your definition of comedy, of course. I think it is, but if you know what a "biedermeier" is, I would imagine it would be like one. Hmmm but how come it has no sci-fi to it, hence the thought of herself being a cyborg. I mean, perhaps the mental institution is right for her.
However, the only answer is, go and watch the movie
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Shadow1517 — 19 years ago(November 22, 2006 11:14 AM)
yes, i learned that from Save the Green Planet!
described as a "dark comedy" and advertised as being really funny and crazy
i dont think I laughed that entire movie
i suppose it was a dark comedy but to me it was so incredibly depressing and beep up, and when the SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER aliens were real i found that ending stupid and silly and not funny
i dont know, perhaps its just me (although I have laughed at some pretty beep up things, i love the blackest of comedy, but something about this just, didnt feel like I was supposed to be laughing)
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sandeep_soodan — 19 years ago(November 29, 2006 05:13 PM)
i agree about 'save the green planet'. watched it few days back. they could have done without the 'aliens and blowing off the planet'. but you don't get this feeling with the promos and trailers of 'i am cyborg but that's ok'.
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josephbleazard — 19 years ago(December 09, 2006 06:09 AM)
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance is a comedy. There are smaller jokes in his other movies but Sympathy is the only comedy in terms of structure. By structure I mean the entire plot setup. The misunderstandings about motives, actions and potential consequences are all deeply comic - even if they're played "dead" straight.
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Shadow1517 — 19 years ago(December 17, 2006 06:43 PM)
ha, i see your point
its like shakespeare's comedies
but i didnt really laugh at most of it because everything in it leads to such sad and tragic stuff
the only part that my friend and i laughed hard at was when he makes to punch the girl to make her cry
it was silly
i loved the film though, in case no one realized
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martyvowell — 19 years ago(February 04, 2007 09:49 AM)
Mr. Veageance was nowhere near the comedy level of Oldboy or Lady Vegeance. Dark Comedys are harder to catch, most people dont like them. Its like laughing at something thats so bizzare or macabre that you really have no other reaction for it but laughter.
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Shadow1517 — 19 years ago(February 28, 2007 01:18 PM)
yes
i usually love dark comedies and bizarre and macabre humor
for some reason, i didnt find this that way, same with Save the Green Planet (which was sillier), i didnt laugh at all at it, something to do with the tone to me, it doesent feel like black comedy, but everyone feels things differently i suppose -
fundaquayman — 19 years ago(March 19, 2007 11:12 PM)
I watched it last night as a festival opening film to the HKIFF.
If you're a fan of Park or Rain, my suggestion is to avoid this film there are comedic moments in some scenes, as well as some surreal violence and mild gore, along with attempts of romance but the fact is, and I guess you can be the best judge, this film looks more like a compilation of deleted scenes that shouldn't have been on the final print.
There is little internal logic to justify this film's 1/2 baked surrealist plot, and the story is so thin that it's like a one-line premise turned into multiple scenes that attempt to be funny and surreal, all tied up with voice-over narration
my suggestion, watch it as inflight entertainment i never thought I would say this, as all films should be rewarded with support and $$ return to encourage more good films to be made but this one just doesn't deserve any of that - it looks like someone pointed a gun to the director and forced him to make a film he neither cares about, nor did he even show up during script-meetings or, maybe they didn't have any script-meetings. -
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spgun — 18 years ago(May 09, 2007 09:04 PM)
The answer depends on your definition of comedy, but yeah I think there is a good amount of comedy in this film. One thing what this film is not is though it is not a DARK or BLACK comedy as many people would assume simply from the name of the director. Actually I liked the light touch of this film. An enjoyable short sketch by Park between his more serious works. I can not wait for his next film about vampires!
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Zarathustras_Crown — 15 years ago(April 13, 2010 02:37 PM)
Yeah, a black comedy sort ofit could be listed as a romantic comedy I guess, though it's a cut above the standard rom-com's that tend to come out of Hollywood
+Charos+
"I have often laughed at weaklings
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Jonny_B_Lately — 15 years ago(April 16, 2010 11:22 AM)
As others have said it is and it isn't. Park has a unique vision for story-telling and it really shows in this movie.
A girl in a radio factory has a nervous breakdown, concludes she's a cyborg with a dead battery, hears a voice tell her to open her skin, attach electrical cord, and plug herself into the wall outlet. Of course it knocks her out and shortly after she's committed to a mental hospital with other delusional people.
Some scenes are fantastically choreographed and shot sequences where she goes on a killing spree. Gun barrels sprout from her finger tips and her mouth becomes a spent shell-casing ejection port. In the process she guns down most of the doctors and staff.
But it's all an delusion, though it looks quite real.
She also becomes the love interest of a thief of sorts. A affable young man who many of the patients assume can cure them by transferring their worst traits to himself. By acting out their traits they become cured (at least in their minds) and he expends the 'bad energy.'
It has a happy ending of sorts. He helps the patients more than the doctors do and we assume the couple end up together, though that's left somewhat up in the air.
It is funny. It explores mental illness, delusion, and a humane attitude toward others illnesses. The action scenes (odd I know) are quite good and I'm still not sure how some of the effects were done. They are seamless.
It also has a happy ending of sorts.
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