A deaf-mute factory worker turns to black market in order to find kidney for his ailing sister. A company president whose daughter is kidnapped, submissively does his best to get his daughter back. These are the main heroes of the first part of the Trilogy of Vengeance - three irrelevant stories which all share certain thematic references nonetheless, the concept of vengeance being one of them. Except for few unnecessarily emphasized scenes, either in terms of length or content, the story of this first part is overall well presented, generously focusing on character depth, as it should, and by no means lacking in Chan-wook Park's expressiveness. The story itself is interesting and quite subtle in portraying a modern reality and the good cast does its best to bring everything to life. However, the film is trying to describe a vicious circle of how misfortune leads to certain choices which in turn lead to more tragedies and so on. And this is what the movie far from manages to successfully pull off. From the choices of the main characters to whatever poetic license is employed in the film, all feel unconvincingly far-fetched in an effort to create tragedy and keep the movie going. It is the sole problem in the film's 130 minutes, but the very nature of the plot which was supposed to feel chaotic, feels so conspicuously contrived instead, to the extent of breaking the entire film. I cannot recommend it, if only as part of an overall interesting trilogy.
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