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Vengeance Trilogy

Literal Translation

Park Chan-wook's thematically connected trilogy of films about revenge: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), Lady Vengeance (2005). Each film is structurally independent. Together they constitute a sustained argument about what revenge costs and what it fails to produce.