He won the Jury Prize at the Festival Cannes 2009, resubmitted to the Italian public at the 8th KoreaFilmFest Florence, still, alas, not dubbed but still dry in its strength. Thirst of Park Chan-wook (author of Old Boy and Lady Vengeance) is in fact all but a horror. Why vampirism, in Thirst is essentially a detail, a narrative pretext and artifice to talk about something else, although some scenes may still satisfy the palates of the finest horror movie lovers. Why
hides many issues, as well as many end users, the story of a Catholic priest who, after a serious virus deliberately inoculated to be a guinea pig for a vaccine, he gets even the "virus" of vampirism after transfusion: after the experiment went wrong, change in body and mind, start an affair with the "wife" (or slave) repressed and dissatisfied a childhood friend, it "becomes" even more in love (part) of her. What is left of human he must fight to the death to not disappear completely. It will do so by sharing depravity. Why Thirst is also a film about love (torque and sense of community), compassion, selfishness and greed, redemption, what are the conditions appropriate to make "good", even putting questions about the nature of the idea of \u200b\u200bcharitable act. Thirst is a movie that shows how love each other can be a wonderful form of mental and moral cannibalism: just like the thousands of end where the story evolves, there are perversions that alternate between selfishness and altruism . The register range, from comedy to horror to melodrama, the levels are intertwined, the linguistic inventions follow one another seamlessly. The horizons of cinema from the mad genius of Park Chan-Wook became more extensive and varied, confirming the desire to experiment with a surprising lightness and almost playful.
This confirms the talent of a director who is capable of striking the eyes and heart with cinematic images of rare power and effectiveness: a pair of shoes that were donated by him to her in the middle of the film, returning to a beautiful and poignant final . VOTE 8.
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