{"id":76,"date":"2005-12-22T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-03T03:11:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T01:11:44","slug":"chan-wook-park-sympathy-for-mr-vengeance-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Chan-wook Park &#8211; Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/1600\/sympathy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/200\/sympathy1.jpg\" \/><\/a> A nice coincidence that this movie would be the next on our Netflix-list after Dirty Harry &#8211; this is the movie Dirty Harry should have been (of course that&#8217;s somewhat unfair, considering the time gap, but would Harry want me to be fair? There). Where Eastwoods cop sets out to right wrongs in a very private moral (or lack-of-moral) code, this movie unfolds as a giant tragedy, where we can have empathy with everybody, even as they do things that are wrong to begin with, and turn out even worse. &#8220;I know you&#8217;re a good guy&#8221; says the vengeful industrialist in the climactic scene, &#8220;so you&#8217;ll understand why I have to kill you&#8221;. So do we, caught in the same violent logic, and as unable to escape it as any of the characters. Terrific and terrifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice coincidence that this movie would be the next on our Netflix-list after Dirty Harry &#8211; this is the movie Dirty Harry should have been (of course that&#8217;s somewhat unfair, considering the time gap, but would Harry want me to be fair? There). Where Eastwoods cop sets out to right wrongs in a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,34,8,21,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-englisch","category-martial-arts","category-movie","category-must-see","category-westerns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}