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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Sympatthy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), a crime thriller from Korean auteur Park Chan-wook (Oldboy [2003], The Handmaiden [2016], Decision to Leave [2022]). A man’s sister needs a kidney transplant; since his boss has just laid him off, the man decides to take his revenge by kidnapping the boss’s daughter and ransoming her to pay for the medical bills. The situation spirals out of control from there. This is one of Park’s best-regarded films, and one of the more popular Korean films in the West, so let’s give it a whirl.

Next is Sing Street (2016), an Irish teen coming-of-age rom-com about a high-schooler in 1980s Dublin who starts playing guitar to impress a girl he likes. Chicks dig guitars, right? Hilarity ensues, as well as some romance and musical numbers. This has a really high rating on Letterboxd, so we’ll give it a try. Director is John Carney, who has made a career out of exactly this sort of music-themed meet-cute stuff, most notably Once (2007) and Begin Again (2013). This one is the best-reviewed of the bunch, though.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance: https://letterboxd.com/film/sympathy-for-mr-vengeance/
  • Sing Street: https://letterboxd.com/film/sing-street/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/22876
  • Sing Street: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11270

CWs for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance:

  • Stalking.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Child abuse.
  • Drug use.
  • Drug addiction.
  • Bugs.
  • Someone is drugged.
  • Someone is held underwater.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Sexual assault: a character is implied to have r*ped an unconscious woman, though this act is not directly depicted.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Squashed head.
  • Achilles tendon injury.
  • Unconsciousness.
  • Broken bones.
  • Torture.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Kidnapping.
  • Death of child.
  • Death of parent.
  • Destruction of child’s toy.
  • Someone soils themselves.
  • Spitting.
  • Audio gore.
  • Needles.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Self-harm.
  • Suicide attempt.
  • Misophonia.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Suicide.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Ableism.
  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Chronic illness.
  • Someone is hit by a car.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Drowning.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for Sing Street:

  • Child abuse.
  • Drug use.
  • Dead animals.
  • Cheating.
  • Vomiting.
  • Spitting.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Homophobic slurs.
  • “Man in a dress” jokes.
  • Racial slurs.
  • “Sexual content”. Seems pretty tame to me, though.

Links to movies:

Forthcoming. Tankietube is currently down, so we may have to use Vimeo instead.