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I watched Thirst tonight. For those in the dark, Thirst is Park Chan-wook's latest, a follow-up to 2006's I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay. Thirst is a film about a priest who becomes a vampire. Thirst is, without a doubt, the most high-profile Korean release of the year.

How did I see it? Easy - I live in Seoul. I'm an American, recent college graduate. I teach conversational English to 7th, 8th and 9th graders at a middle school in Nowon-gu (wayyyyyyyy NE Seoul). I traveled to Hongdae tonight to catch the flick (Lotte Cinema, 6:00PM). Packed house. Me, dead center, fifth row from the front. Digital print. Gorgeous.

I'm going to volunteer this bit of info right now - my Korean is good, not great. I studied for a semester at Yonsei University's Korean Language Institute and did another year at home. I understood the majority of what was being said and communicated, but I did not understand all of it. I'd say I caught a good 75% of the dialogue and understood the rest through context and action. If that's a problem for you, feel free to dismiss my thoughts.

A bit of a prologue:
Oldboy's one of the finest films I've ever seen. The craft, the construction of the scenes...simply flawless. It's a film I've screened countless times for folks known and unknown, young and old, whatever and whatever. I feel the same about the other two entries in Park's vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance). Park is a superb technician; he's an equally talented writer. He was, after all, a student of philosophy. He's a director, screenwriter, producer and novelist (got a copy of Thirst, the book, sittin' on my bed). He is an absolutely brilliant man, and I'm proud to say I've got his autograph on a copy of Crime and Punishment at home (so appropriate, right?).

Expectations were high on this one. It's playing in competition at Cannes against the likes of Tarantino, Noe, Campion and others (too many great filmmakers to list here); it stars Song Kang-ho, one of the most distinguished actors working in South Korea; and it earned the Lust, Caution seal of approval for graphic sexual content (not to mention full-frontal male nudity). Like I said, high-profile in the extreme.

(Word to the wise: spoilers, though not too many, from here on out.)

What did I think? I walked out bewildered. I still don't know what the fuck I just saw. I know I'm going again. I'm know I'm going again as soon as humanly possible with as many people as I can find to drag along.

The film moves fast. The set-up (priest volunteers to test vaccines for a new virus in South Africa; the virus creates boils or blisters or something on the skin before turning on the internal organs; the patient dies from blood loss and hemorrhaging) is quick, real quick. The priest dies, comes back to life as a vampire, and wakes up a minor celebrity (folks view his 'resurrection' as a miracle).

Six months later, the priest meets an old friend from childhood. This friend, Kang-woo, is a sickly sort of momma's boy. Kang-woo's wife, Tae-joo, is fed up; she's treated like a dog and endures constant verbal lashings from Kang-woo's mother and father (who, by the way, live with the couple).

Around this same time, the priest starts experiencing strange audio/visual hallucinations one can only compare to symptoms of drug withdrawal (not speaking from experience, but you know, I've seen Trainspotting). He passes out, wakes up to find his skin burning in the sunlight, and spends the rest of the day in the closet...in the dark.

When next we see him, he's performing the Last Rites on a woman who seems to have suffered some sort of injury to the neck. She is covered in blood. The priest can't help but stare at the surging, pulsing, bleeding artery...and, sure enough, takes just a little taste...enough to know that what he needs is more. He siphons some off from the comatose patient in one of the hospital rooms and finds his condition vastly improved.

If you've seen the trailers, you know what happens - the priest falls for his friend's wife. What you don't know is what happens next. There's a muder, a ghost, a traumatized onlooker (see Emile Zola's Therese Raquin for ideas) and much, much more. The film is long, but doesn't feel long. If anything, it feels truncated, abbreviated; too much to cover in such a short time.

Thirst is a dark film. No color (except red), no fluff, no floral patterns...the visual design of the film is sparse, barren, a lot of whites and blacks and browns. It is (undoubtedly) a Park product, but it's less poppy, softer, more subtle. I didn't notice the music so much in this one, either; it was much less obtrusive.

This is a vampire film in the way that Let the Right One In is a vampire film; it exists both within as well as outside of the genre. There's no garlic, no capes, no fangs, just a whole lotta blood.

I wanted more reflection, though. I wanted a deeper examination of sin and redemption and desire...I wanted the Lady Vengeance of vampire films, and while I got a little of what I wanted, I felt the film could've delved deeper. The material is so rich, the characters so well developed; however, in my opinion, opportunities to really mine the material were lost.

Performances are stellar all around. Song Kang-ho as the priest plays it soft, sensual; Kim Ok-bin as Tae-joo is devilish, devious. I'll say this - all the talk of nudity this and explicit that was sort of a waste. For sure, the film contains some graphic scenes, but nothing unnecessary, nothing exploitative, and nothing quite on the Tang Wei tip.

Like I said, I'll see the film again. And again. And again with English subtitles. And again on DVD. I'll see the film a dozen times before I've finally decided just what I think about it and why. I know it's good. It may be great.

I hope this has been informative. Until next time...

Aha, to je ono čudo čiji je trejler izgledao ekstremno nezanimljivo?

Aha.

ali, zamisli!
...trejler ume da zavara.

mene mnogo više od trejlera zabrinjava to što poslednja 2 čanvukova filma ne valjaju:
LADY je 'samo' vrlo slaba i misguided, ali CYBORG je negledljivi imbecilizam.
na šta će ŽEĐ da liči – živ nisam da nagađam.
ali žestok pad u pomenuta 2 filma ukazuje na OZBILJNE simptome, sa nezahvalnim prognozama za oporavak.

Ne bih ga ja baš tako lako otpisala.
Bez obzira na pomenute promašaje,
verujem da će ovo biti pun pogodak.
Večiti optimista. 


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I just watched it in Seoul. I went to the matinée but it was sold out.

He fails to change from his Oldboy/Lady Vengeance style. You can expect to see his usual visual arts and cinematography but nothing new. I mean they are actually great... all the little details and use of color and all that. But, he has done the same trick so many times with his other films. There is nothing groundbreaking like Oldboy. I think he just set the bar to high for himself with that one.

What this film seriously lacks is a fresh plot. The storyline is exactly what you would predict from a vampire movie. There is no surprise.

I wish Let the Right One In had Thirst's artistic aspects. I wish Thirst had a fresh storyline like Let the Right One In.

6 out of 10. Not bad. But a total failure for someone like Park, Chan- wook.

Quote from: acaciA on 02-05-2009, 23:28:12
Aha.

ali, zamisli!
...trejler ume da zavara.

Da. Ali u obrnutom smjeru.
Dešava se da trejler bude dobar, a da film ništa ne valja, ali suprotno bude vrlo rijetko.

Park Chan-wook's vampire film Thirst has topped South Korea's box office, beating X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and clocking up the biggest opening for a local film so far this year


Released on April 30 on 633 screens, the Cannes-bound title has racked up more than 1 million admissions and grossed over $5.36m (KW6bn) during its five-day opening weekend (April 30-May 4), which coincided with a public holiday on May 1.

20th Century Fox Korea opened X-Men Origins: Wolverine on April 30 on 573 screens and the film took approximately 622,500 admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), for third position in the chart.

KOFIC plans to have definitive box office scores out after the May 5 Children's Day national holiday.

Distributed by CJ Entertainment and co-produced with Universal/Focus Features which will distribute in North America, Thirst is set for an international premiere in the Cannes competition later this month.

In its first five days, the film broke My Girlfriend Is An Agent's eight-day record for the fastest leap to the 1 million admissions mark this year.

Despite Thirst's 18 plus rating, the film's big opening was expected due to the reputations of director Park and star Song Kang-ho (The Host).

When CJ first posted footage from the film weeks in advance, its web-site crashed from the flood of viewers. The film's sexual and violent content, its selection for this year's Cannes added to the buzz, along with news of Song Kang-ho's full frontal nudity in one scene.

With Friday (May 1) and Tuesday (May 5) both national holidays in Korea, many offices took the "sandwiched day" Monday off as well.

Preliminary figures have My Girlfriend Is An Agent, distributed locally by Lotte Entertainment, at number two, followed by X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Insadong Scandal, which is distributed locally by SK Telecom, and Monsters Vs. Aliens, distributed by CJ in Korea.

Meni je tu prava misterija ovaj Moja devojka je agent!

Thirst
11 May, 2009 | By Darcy Paquet

Dir. Park Chan-wook. South Korea-US. 2009. 133mins.


After winning the Cannes Grand Prix with his 2003 revenge epic Oldboy, Park Chan-wook has faltered somewhat (2005's Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, the poorly received I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK in 2006), but his visually arresting vampire movie Thirst looks certain to create a stir: adopting a more lyrical mode than before, this complex and supremely inventive work sees the filmmaker back on top form.

Thirst is not, as some observers expected, a return to a more audience friendly approach - Park is aiming far above the heads of mainstream viewers.  But even as it confounds some audiences, Thirst's sheer creativity and cinematic brio will drive word of mouth and propel it to a solid, though not super, international career in theatrical and ancillary markets. Renewed interest in the vampire genre, manifested at the multiplexes by Twilight and in critical circles by Sweden's Let the Right One In, should add to the work's commercial potential.

The film has already recorded the biggest opening of the year in its native Korea, where distributor CJ Entertainment pulled in 1.36m admissions ($7.2m) in the six days after its April 30 release. Co-financier Universal Pictures/Focus Features will handle a forthcoming US release, and the film has secured numerous pre-sales around the world including Palisades Tartan for the UK.

Intriguingly, Park takes Emile Zola's 1867 novel Therese Raquin as the starting point for his story. Sang-hyun (Song) is a Catholic priest who, in an act of moral desperation, volunteers for a dangerous medical experiment in Africa to combat a deadly disease. Contracting the virus, he is at the point of dying when a blood transfusion from an unknown source revives him. Returning to Korea, the symptoms of the disease linger, but he is able to stave them off by giving in to his new, insatiable desire to drink human blood. To his disgust, he realizes that he has become a vampire.

Meanwhile Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin) is locked in a loveless marriage to a sickly, infantile young man (Shin) doted on by his obsessive mother (Kim Hae-sook). When the priest - a childhood friend of her husband - becomes a regular visitor to her home, Tae-ju's previously suppressed desires and frustrations rush to the fore. Sang-hyun, locked in his own inner battle between conscience and worldly lust, submits to her advances.

Since his breakthrough with Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance in 2002, Park's work has been characterised by its visual inventiveness, dark humour, intense acting performances, and strange but compelling shifts in tone. The first 90 minutes of Thirst is a robust display of these talents, but it is anchored in a melancholic lyricism that is new to Park's oeuvre. Although the focus of its narrative movement is not always clear, in its best moments, Thirst offers something of the poetic force of cinema's timeless masterpieces.

A key plot development comes at the three quarters mark, and at this point the film displays a shift in style to the kind of highly kinetic Park Chan-wook film many viewers might have expected in the first place. Even the production design undergoes a noticeable transformation. Although logically consistent with the plot's development, the shift is slightly unnerving, and it robs some power from what might have been an even more heartbreaking final scene.

In the midst of Thirst's swings in mood and style, it is the restrained, pitch perfect performance of Korea's leading actor Song Kang-ho (The Host) that serves as the film's main unifying presence. In this sense he carries the film's broader themes of guilt, conscience and redemption almost single-handedly.

Tae-ju, modelled after Zola's Therese, is a less consistent character, despite the best efforts of young actress Kim Ok-vin. One of the film's weaknesses is that, perhaps relying too much on the implicit link with the novel, Tae-ju's characterisation in the screenplay lacks depth. Supporting performances, bolstered by a highly experienced cast, are excellent.

Technical aspects of the work, from the smoky colour palates of Jeong Jeong-hun's cinematography to the deliberate artifice of Ryu Seong-hee's antique-styled production design, are as good as anything in contemporary Asian cinema.

Thirst
Bakjwi (South Korea - U.S.)
By DEREK ELLEY

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A CJ Entertainment (South Korea)/Focus Features Intl. (U.S.) presentation of a Moho Film production. (International sales: CJ Entertainment, Seoul.) Produced by Park Chan-wook, Ahn Su-hyeon. Executive producer, Miky Lee. Co-executive producer, Katharine Kim. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Screenplay, Park, Jeong Seo-gyeong, inspired by Emile Zola's novel "Therese Raquin."

With: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin, Kim Hae-suk, Shin Ha-gyun, Park In-hwan, Oh Dal-su, Song Yeong-chang, Mercedes Cabral.
(Korean, English dialogue)

Emile Zola meets New Age vampirism in South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook's "Thirst," an overlong stygian comedy that badly needs a transfusion of genuine inspiration. Inspired by and following key plot elements in Zola's 19th-century novel of murder and adultery, "Therese Raquin," the two-hour-plus pic is slow to warm up and largely goes around in circles thereafter, with repetitive (and often plain goofy) jokes about hemoglobin lust and bone-crunching, sanguinary violence. Some major surgery could help its specialized offshore potential, but this is startlingly unnuanced work from the director of such classy fare as "Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance."

Film opened strongly April 30 in South Korea, and has taken 1.75 million admissions in its first two frames. But in its second week, it was knocked out of the top spot by action-comedy "My Girlfriend Is an Agent."

Setup is strong, as Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho), a well-liked priest in a small town who works at the local hospital, contracts and dies from the deadly Emmanuel virus after volunteering in a project to discover a vaccine. After being brought back to life by a blood transfusion, he gradually realizes he's been turned into a vampire, which gives him an extremely healthy sexual appetite but also requires regular doses of blood to keep his skin free of small boils.

Choice bits of Zola's novel start to appear as Sang-hyeon starts an affair with Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), the wife of his childhood friend, Kang-woo (Shin Ha-gyun). Dowdy, put-upon Tae-ju, who spends her time looking after the sickly Kang-woo and being bullied by his doting mom, Mrs. Ra (as in "Raquin"; Kim Hae-suk), blooms into a voracious, free-spirited lover with Sang-hyeon. Soon they're a pair in more ways than one, as their thirst for sex, thrills and red corpuscles turns them into mass murderers.

Project has been in Park's mind for a decade -- always with thesp Song in mind -- but at some stage, what began as a typically wry, genre-bending take on sin and redemption seems to have shed most of its subtext. Though Sang-hyeon finds himself an object of worship as he develops special powers of strength and flight, what could have been a wonderfully transgressive spin on religion and its flipside devolves, especially in its second half, into blood-spattered, low-key farce revolving around a single, overworked idea.

Early grossout scenes lose their shock value with repetition, as the script amps up the semi-cartoonish violence in the third act. Tae-ju begins to relish the blood-sucking in a way that troubles even Sang-hyeon. But the movie never comes close to tapping the raw, gnawing need of vampirism that fueled pics such as Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction" or Tony Scott's "The Hunger."

Song, perhaps South Korea's most recognizable actor and a Park regular ("JSA," "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance"), is never less than solid as the priest-turned-vampire but lacks some of the sheer physical presence he usually brings to the screen.

The major surprise is 22-year-old actress-model Kim Ok-vin (usually known, more correctly, as Kim Ok-bin), whose doll-like features made her the perfect underdog in the campy high school musical "Dasepo Naughty Girls." Here, she puts to rest any doubts about her ability to take on a challenging role, throwing herself into topless sex scenes and vampiric munching with a lusty, bad-girl abandon.

As usual in Park's movies, design is paramount, with Jeong Jeong-hun's DV-originated lensing savoring the musty Lynchian colors of Ryu Seong-hye's production design. Visual effects, especially in the flying scenes, are just OK by Korean standards.




Camera (color, widescreen), Jeong Jeong-hun; editors, Kim Sang-beom, Kim Jae-beom; music, Jo Yeong-wook; production designer, Ryu Seong-hye; costume designer, Jo Sang-gyeong; sound (Dolby Digital), Jung Gun; sound designers, Kim Seok-weon, Kim Chang-seob; special effects supervisor, Lee Jeon-hyeong; visual effects, AZworks; assistant director, Seok Min-woo. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (competing), May 14, 2009. Running time: 133 MIN.

hmmm... javlja mi se da je čanvuk počeo da se oporavlja od lejditisa i kiborgitisa, ali još uvek nije stao na svoje oldboj noge, i pitanje je da li će ikada...

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While Focus Features decides when to release Park Chan-wook's vampire-comedy Thirst in theaters, there is already talk brewing of a potential remake. While Park's Korean producers on those three pics were able to deal directly with the interested U.S. parties, Thirst is a co-production between CJ Entertainment and Universal-based Focus Features Intl., so Focus gets first look on any potential English-language remake, reports Variety. While CJ Entertainment's head of international film financing Mike Suh said it is still early days in terms of discussing a remake of Thirst, it is another CJ project generating heat. In the same article it revealed that his Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is being remade by "Transformers" producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Chan-wook directed the critically acclaimed Oldboy.

Harry loves Park Chan Wook's THIRST!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41909

I have been dying to see Park Chan Wook's latest film, THIRST. Mainly because I had no idea what a Vampire story from his amazing vantage point would look like. Would there be new Vampire rules? Would it be a recognizable vampire story? Or would it be something entirely new?

Coming from South Korea - I was anticipating the latter. THIRST did not disappoint.

It is a vampire story. But it is so much more than that. This is primarily a psycho-sexual tale of mutual addiction. In many ways it resembles a great film that I've seen recently called IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES by Nagisa Oshima back in 1976. In Oshima's film you have two people that become so entwined, so sexually high on one another and to topping each high with something crazier, wilder, more irresponsible. That spirals wildly out of control.

Now Park's THIRST is no where near as graphic, sexually speaking, as IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, but it is very much a kindred spirit.

Kang-Ho Song plays a virginal priest named Sang-Hyeon. He's dedicated his life to the Priesthood - and is so selfless, that he volunteers to be infected with a truly awful virus that ravages the body into a messy death - all to try a cure that thus far, had not worked. Through the process, through the ravaging of his body he intends to grow closer to his savior, Jesus Christ, his dream to hear God. But in the end, his savior was not God, but an anonymous Vampire blood donor that infected him, turned him and cured him.

He becomes legendary as the "Bandaged Saint". People want his blessings, pray for his blessings. Through a rather innocent occurrence at the hospital he is stationed at, he meets the mother of a childhood friend, whose wife was another childhood friend.

Had Sang-hyeon never met Tae-Joo. He probably would have just remained a sad sack vampire, sucking upon the comatose and his blind father. But no. He found Tae-Joo and she him. Two miserable spirits that find solace, a measured degree of happiness with one another. But this is a mistake. This is wrong.

It begins sexually. An abused woman forced into a relationship with her adopted brother/husband. Treated like Harry Potter in his muggle home. The kindness of this Priest and his curiosity with her, her body, her sensuality. It calls to him. It screams at him to betray his vows of celibacy, but his faith has begun to falter in the wake of his undead nature. So their sexual relationship begins. Passion is found where it was missing in both. In each other they find someone that can never have enough. Add to this - Vampirism... and you've got a formula for something truly perverse. Murder is done. It gets worse, the problems grow, the psychological toll is taken and it grows and grows.

Where it is headed is something that only you should discover as the film progresses, but let me tell you... the film is intensely erotic, horrifying and oddly romantic.

The visual effects of the film are kind of amazing. It isn't just that they can fly, but it is the way the camera moves with them, the way we follow the characters - it feels... somehow... personal. Like we're the bird on their shoulder for the ride. It is intoxicating, because I'm not entirely sure how it was done, but I love watching it.

The sex is sexy. The violence is brutal and disgusting. And the magic of vampirism is magic. This is a truly great Vampire story, adult and intense. If you want something with teeth, this will quench your THIRST!

I'm sorry. That line just made me laugh so hard, but I really do mean it. This is one of the absolute best films I've seen this year.

Massawyrm hungers for another bite of THIRST!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41914

It's very hard to discuss THIRST without mentioning pop-media sensation TWILIGHT. It's not that TWILIGHT has become so big that it can't be ignored, but rather because THIRST and TWILIGHT cover a lot of the same thematic material, but do it in very different ways. Watching TWILIGHT is like listening to a crappy pop band who cites the Beatles as their chief influence - but while their music is reminiscent of the Beatles, it seems to have no understanding of their music, how it was structured or what it meant. In truth, this band has never actually listened to a Beatles album. Instead, they were exposed to it through countless commercials, covers and use in films. They have never, it would appear, sat down to listen to an entire Beatles album; they've only heard snippets. And that reflects in their music.

Chan-Wook Park, on the other hand, has sat down and listened to every note, understands every melody, and composes music that not only embraces what has come before it, but creates its own complex structures that increases one's appreciation of it. At this stage in the game, it is virtually impossible to make an original vampire movie. All of the themes have been exhausted and the ideas run through time and again. So encountering a 'fresh' take on the genre either involves changing the vampires so much that they become utterly unrecognizable (like TWILIGHT in which the creatures are actually closer to melodramatic Fairyfolk than anything resembling a vampire) or you have to make the supernatural elements secondary and focus on telling a real, human story about characters.

Guess which way Chan-Wook Park went.

THIRST is the story about a dedicated priest (Kang-ho Song - The Weird from THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD, HOST and both of Chan-Wook's VENGEANCE films) who wants nothing more than to help people and thus offers his body up to science in hopes of helping find a cure for a mysterious disease that seems to target missionaries. But as he lay dying on the table of a hospital, a life saving transfusion meant to prolong his suffering in the name of science instead contains contaminated blood that turns him into a vampire. Christians see the sudden shrugging off of the disease as a miracle. The priest thinks otherwise.

Upon returning home, he reconnects with an old friend and his family, among whom is the adorable urchin girl he grew up with a crush on. As the two develop a relationship, the priest's vampirism begins to come to light and he begins to explore his newfound powers and limitations. This is a love story. But a love story about two lovers slowly becoming monsters. And that's where the thematic content decidedly shies away from TWILIGHT. This isn't about love conquering all. This is about how fucking scary vampires are and what it is like for a good man to slowly turn into a beast.

THIRST examines the transition from being a member of the herd to being someone who feeds upon the herd. Something better. Something different. It's about the changing perspective of what life is. And at the same time, it is the struggle of a good man trying to combat his new nature and remain the man that he was before in his old life. He matures, he gains wisdom. But he is also a terrifying creature of the night.

THIS is how you make a fucking vampire movie.

Chan-Wook tells the story in his signature style, with slow, melodic development of our characters, bizarre-o Eastern humor, and some scenes of startling ultra-violence to jar you back on edge. This film is at times silly and hilarious while at other times positively horrific. But at the same time, there are extended periods of heartbreak and sensuality as our two main characters, both virginal in their explorations of one another, begin to experience passion and romance for the first time in their lives.

I've got to admit, I've become increasingly bored with sexuality in films as of late. With the advent of the internet, I can see what I want, when I want. Hell, you could open another window, right now, and find exactly what turns you on only to come back here after you've cleaned up and continue as if nothing had happened. So putting extended scenes of love making in a film has become repetitive, unnecessary and ultimately neutered due to community standards. Here, Chan-Wook includes some seriously extended love scenes. Only Park has done something others haven't bothered to do as of late. These scenes aren't simply meant to titillate - they're metaphor. He uses the lovemaking of these two inexperienced and passionate souls to explain to the audience the sensations of vampirism, while also expanding the scope of their characters. These two people who had never truly been alive until now serve as our gateway to understanding the experience of being a vampire. And through their relationship, we see the arc of them coming to grips with the allure and ultimately the horror of what they are becoming.

The film brilliantly handles the material and tells a wonderful story without feeling the need to reinvent anything. It is deeply romantic, incredibly rich and finishes with a perfect, killer ending that succinctly sums up everyone's arcs and everything Chan-Wook has to say on the matter. It is among the finest vampire films ever made and would make a fantastic double feature with last year's LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Vampire fans are going to dig the hell out of this, while those like myself who have tired of retread after retread of the same fucking material will find this a fresh and rewarding new trek into old territory.

The films one real flaw is its length - it runs a solid 15-20 minutes longer than it should, all taken up with bits and pieces in the movie that get a slight bit tedious. Park has some scenes in which he repeats himself a bit, a common trait of his films, and you come to a point in which you just kind of want him to get on with it already. Once he establishes something, he occasionally hits us again for effect and it slows the film down a bit more than it should. One buddy remarked that he'd never before seen a film that so needed a Weinstein to come in and speed it up, but that's very much what you'll feel here - which is a shame, because everything he's repeating is great. It's just like a perfectly cooked steak 3oz too big.

But overall, THIRST is a voyage into darkness well worth taking. It is a classic tune retooled by a master. While not as brutally effective as OLDBOY or his VENGEANCE films, it is far and away more memorable than I'M A CYBORG BUT THAT'S OK and is a fantastic return to form for Park. Recommended.

Bogam, zvuči obećavajuće, ne?

Gore od Kiborga i Gospođice Osvetnice ne može biti.

Kiborga nisam smeo ni da gledam. Ali to je OK.

Lejdi Vendžns mi je delovao kao da je Park imao osmišljenih poslednjih 40 minuta filma (koji su i najsolidniji deo) a onda se baš napregao da smisli prethodnih sat vremena... i nije se proslavio.

Thirst.2009.LiMiTED.SUBBED.DVDRip.XviD-NODLABS



Year: 2009
Directed: Chan-wook Park
Genre: Drama/Horror
Runtime: 02:14:02
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean/English/French
Subtitles: English (Hardcoded).
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Ok-vin Kim, Hae-sook Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, In-hwan Park, Dal-su Oh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/

Synopsis / Plot / Review

Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and tired of her mundane life. The one-time priest falls deeper in despair and depravity. As things turn for worse, he struggles to maintain what's left of his humanity.

Thirst Trailer [English]

Izgleda nema jos RS linkova, aj ako ko naleti nek javi 

Iz nekog, meni nikad shvatljivog razloga, prvo se pojavljuju megashares linkovi, neupotrebljivi za većinu poštenog sveta (mada, pretpostavljam da jdownloader može da ih hendluje... na neki način). Ali, kapiram da će u narednih sat-dva neko da svuče sa tih MS linkova i okači na RS/MU, javljam čim bude.

a u međuvremenu ja ću izvestiti o kakvom filmu se radi.

Ja sam se potpuno odviko od torenta....

nakon odgledanih sat vremena može se slobodno reći da će ovo biti jedan od najboljih horora godine.

čak je i doza humora na momente ubedljivija nego u nekim "komedijama".

e sad samo da izdrži Park do kraja.

more, kači to na rapidšer, barabo!

stvarno shozo...ne preteruj 

Prihvatićemo i meagaaploud.

...od share linkova zasad je (barem meni) dostupan samo ne baš free-user friendly megashres, pa ako niste gadljivi...

thirst.2009.limited.dvdrip.xvid-nodlabs.cd1.avi
http://d01.megashares.com/dl/f7ded93/thirst.2009.limited.dvdrip.xvid-nodlabs.cd1.avi


thirst.2009.limited.dvdrip.xvid-nodlabs.cd2.avi
http://d01.megashares.com/dl/0a2a043/thirst.2009.limited.dvdrip.xvid-nodlabs.cd2.avi

thirst.2009.limited.dvdrip.xvid-nodlabs.subs.rar
http://d01.megashares.com/dl/c255f0f/thirst.2009.limited.dvdrip.xvid-nodlabs.subs.rar

taj MS je zao!

MS je odlichna alternativa kada nema MU-a. Sve dok nije RS, ja zadovoljan.

kako bre odlichna, ne dozvoljava mi da skinem fajl koji je veci od 500mb

chan-wook je malo pao u drugoj polovini usred naglih i učestalih promena ritma i tona.

svejedno, stilski i žanrovski kvalitetno ostvarenje, iako ne u rangu njegovih najboljih ostvarenja.

Quote from: dejan on 09-11-2009, 16:35:04
kako bre odlichna, ne dozvoljava mi da skinem fajl koji je veci od 500mb

Sa jDownloaderom dozvoljava, bez problema. Skine do limita, sacheka neko vreme i produzhi sa skidanjem.

dobio sam ŽEĐ kurtezijom šoza - javljam noćas kaki je.

ja očekujem max. 3+ ovde.
želim da verujem, al realno, biće super ako dobaci i dotle.

Ja sam već po trejleru vidio da je u pitanju neinspirisana bljutavština, sad ostaje samo da se to potvrdi.

http://rapidshare.com/files/304569210/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304568875/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304568949/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304571849/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304569540/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304570673/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304569769/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/304568575/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part8.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SNPXFPSH Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part1.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A26M20FJ Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part2.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJ02JGJV Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part3.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KNGH3DXC Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part4.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PARORXRK Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part5.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OXBZJP2U Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part6.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C5Q94UJ5 Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part7.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XICNKJVX Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part8.rar

I valja li čemu, vredi li potrošenih dva sata??..??

hvala gt2g!

Evo još par mirora

http://www.storage.to/get/PHvUg00G/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part1.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/zoVp3Thg/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part2.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/7iyc5WbF/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part3.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/rG1ceoBU/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part4.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/9fIjADmG/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part5.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/8P3UxhMC/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part6.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/zbEtR5BW/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part7.rar
http://www.storage.to/get/iTe96YFI/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part8.rar

HF
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089085/522f05d/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part1.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089116/7a0f0be/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part2.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089175/88ed0a3/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part3.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089246/58ee597/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part4.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089293/b717ebc/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part5.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089374/0b44bb8/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part6.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089409/29eaa3c/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part7.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/17089411/2b83a02/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part8.rar.html

FF
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afhgb/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part1_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1fe291/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part2_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afg52/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part3_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afg4d/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part4_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afg16/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part5_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afg22/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part6_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afg4h/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part7_rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1afgh3/n/Thirst_2009_LTD_DVDRip-NODLABS_part8_rar

BF
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255518/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part1.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255519/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part2.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255520/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part3.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255521/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part4.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255522/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part5.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255523/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part6.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255524/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part7.rar.html
http://www.BigAndFree.com/255525/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.part8.rar.html



http://www.storage.to/get/zwyzGKrN/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.CD1.avi
http://www.storage.to/get/m0Fl503C/Thirst.2009.LTD.DVDRip-NODLABS.CD2.avi

početak filma ne obećava...

Quote from: Harvester on 09-11-2009, 21:11:01
Ja sam već po trejleru vidio da je u pitanju neinspirisana bljutavština, sad ostaje samo da se to potvrdi.

Quote from: Ghoul on 10-11-2009, 01:57:53
početak filma ne obećava...

Siguran sam da je film odličan! (iako ga nisam pogledao)

Optimisto! Ovo nema šanse da valja. Evo čak i Ghoul priznaje.

milošu će se dopasti: ima patetike i melodrame u lopatama!

ako je CYBORG bio škripanje morske pene po staklu, onda je THIRST žvakanje kocki šećera.

jezikom brojki, ovo će izgleda biti oko 3-. ako mnogo ne usere do kraja. a ne bi me čudilo.

btw, film nije horor, ali kamo sreće da mu je to najveća 'mana'!

heh, kasnim... upravo sam stavila da se skida. 

ma, pričajte šta hoćete. sigurna sam da je film i više nego dobar!

Quote from: acaciA on 10-11-2009, 03:13:42ma, pričajte šta hoćete. sigurna sam da je film i više nego dobar!

To i ja kažem!

btw Ko još nije stavio da se skida, evo i MU linkova:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S2DU1T5I
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z5TWAM7E

Ljudi, kako išta možete da očekujete od filma s onako dosadnim trejlerom?

film je užasan.
in a bad way.

Sad pogledajte drugi post na ovom topiku i odgovorite mi na pitanje HUZ DA MEN?, dok odem da otplešem svoj viktorijanski ples.

Quote from: Harvester on 10-11-2009, 04:17:53Sad pogledajte drugi post na ovom topiku i odgovorite mi na pitanje HUZ DA MEN?, dok odem da otplešem svoj viktorijanski ples.

šta, uspeo si - za razliku od svih ostalih - da vidiš da je trejler nezanimljiv?
bravo!