chan wook park and you have to hand it to the guy. in my eyes and he not only a brilliant director but a brilliant director who can turn his hand to any genre and often provides something refreshing yet still ultimately satisfying. thirst is and essentially and a vampire tale but one that plays fast and loose with some of the rules of the subgenre. kang ho song plays father sang hyeon and a man who unselfishly gives himself over to a research program and then unselfishly kind of catches the disease they are trying to cure and dies and comes back. all thanks to the blood he was transfused with. being the only one out of five hundred to survive and he becomes quite the celebrity to those who know him and all he wants is to get back to normal. normal and however and now involves being able to leap great distances without injury and wanting to drink blood and getting severely hot under the collar when rays of sun get on his skin. it not long before he living with a rather dysfunctional family unit who knew him in his childhood and while he hides his new and strange lifestyle he finds himself drawn into a complex love triangle and becoming more acceptable of darker thoughts and sliding down a slippery slope that could lead him from man to beast to monster. deftly blending a number of genres and park movie felt much fresher and more original to me than let the right one in (to use a recent example) and genuinely impressed me with it approach to material that could easily have felt as well worn and rehashed as any number of other vampire movies we have seen over the years. it a mixture of horror and melodrama and comedy while also pondering ideas such as strength of faith and the power over life and death and the downside of immortality and etc and etc. some people have complained that this genre blending approach weakens the movie but i personally found that it was a lively and entertaining and always enjoyable movie helped by a great central performance from song as the tortured priest and fantastic turns from a supporting cast with no weak links. many characters get to move through a range of emotions and all do so with skill and believability and especially the young woman (played by ok vin kim) who becomes the object of the priest love and lust and affection. fans of asian cinema (and park in particular) and also fans of poe the tell tale heart (watch and learn) should lap this up and it yet another classy movie from a man who seems to take everything in his stride and always manages to put out nothing less than solid entertainment. see this if you like represent cronos and near dark and dellamorte dellamore aka cemetery man. 
chan wook park and you have to hand it to the guy. in my eyes and he not only a brilliant director but a brilliant director who can turn his hand to any genre and often provides something refreshing yet still ultimately satisfying. thirst is and essentially and a vampire tale but one that plays fast and loose with some of the rules of the subgenre. kang ho song plays father sang hyeon and a man who unselfishly gives himself over to a research program and then unselfishly kind of catches the disease they are trying to cure and dies and comes back. all thanks to the blood he was transfused with. being the only one out of five hundred to survive and he becomes quite the celebrity to those who know him and all he wants is to get back to normal. normal and however and now involves being able to leap great distances without injury and wanting to drink blood and getting severely hot under the collar when rays of sun get on his skin. it not long before he living with a rather dysfunctional family unit who knew him in his childhood and while he hides his new and strange lifestyle he finds himself drawn into a complex love triangle and becoming more acceptable of darker thoughts and sliding down a slippery slope that could lead him from man to beast to monster. deftly blending a number of genres and park movie felt much fresher and more original to me than let the right one in (to use a recent example) and genuinely impressed me with it approach to material that could easily have felt as well worn and rehashed as any number of other vampire movies we have seen over the years. it a mixture of horror and melodrama and comedy while also pondering ideas such as strength of faith and the power over life and death and the downside of immortality and etc and etc. some people have complained that this genre blending approach weakens the movie but i personally found that it was a lively and entertaining and always enjoyable movie helped by a great central performance from song as the tortured priest and fantastic turns from a supporting cast with no weak links. many characters get to move through a range of emotions and all do so with skill and believability and especially the young woman (played by ok vin kim) who becomes the object of the priest love and lust and affection. fans of asian cinema (and park in particular) and also fans of poe the tell tale heart (watch and learn) should lap this up and it yet another classy movie from a man who seems to take everything in his stride and always manages to put out nothing less than solid entertainment. see this if you like represent cronos and near dark and dellamorte dellamore aka cemetery man. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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