Ich steh nicht sehr auf Partyfilme muss ich sagen. IMEV ist für mich halt einfach fantastisch gedreht, besetzt und lässt einfach diese Vampir Romantik mit Rüsschen, Kleidern, wallenden haaren, Paris 19 Jhd. aufleben, es ist halt die Film Werdung des Faszination Vampire. Ich mag Thirst sehr glaubs mir, aber Interview setzt sich halt mit den Grundlegenden Problemen des Wesens der Vampire außeinander (was Thirst auch tut, aber Interview ist inzwischen 18 Jahre alt).
Aber ich kann ja mal meine Ausführung zu Thirst posten die ich damals aufgeschrieben hatte als ich den Film zum ersten Mal sah (lang
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Lately the topic of vampires got quite a bad rep thanks to the half assed wimpy shit storm that was twilight. Everyone who at least somewhat connected to this topic felt insulted to the bone by seeing (or reading which I never did for the reason that…it sucked basically) Vampires looking like GQ models on a pretty lame Halloween party and having as much charm or character as the bottom side of a cereal box. I mean managing to keep a story about dark lust, morbid erotic, blood and even more blood as clean and sterile as it turned out to be is quite an achievement. Especially considering that Bram Stoker actual and original intention in the neck biting wasn't the idea of biting but pretty much the whole process of inserting something in the others person…sex…if you know what I mean and iam pretty sure you know what I mean since we live 20XX and we are, compared to Mr. Stoker that is, pretty much able to speak loudly about bitches and whose and laying and boning and all the other colorful expressions. So it's actually ironic how the makers of twilight manage to keep adult content all the way out of adult content. While the western world was caught in the idea of trying to market vampire to teenage girls in their mid 10s (tenies so to speak) one director somewhere in a little place known as korea did a vampire movie too. Which is as known to our side of the world as a Korean "big budge"; movie can be. This man was (and still is) Chan Wook Park.Who before rattled the cage of good taste by doing all the stuff you shouldn' do in a single movie. This one came to be known as Oldboy a masterpiece of cruelty and genius. This man announcing a vampire movie is like Chris Nolan announcing a new Batman...expectations are going through the roof. And boy did he deliver. This movie is like twilight done by Charles Manson based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It seems like Park tried to break every no go and still telling an awesome story about love, lust, jealous and dignity insulting gore…all the good stuff basically. Adult content is there but not necessarily the main focus (even though it's always fun to watch). This is the very clever story about all the problems that come with the state of being undead (or dead…I really mix that up usually) working it's way up to a unbelievable smart catastrophe (to speak with a term taken from theater science). As usual in korean movies (atleast my opinion) you have a strong leading cast with their performance. Mixed with rather odd characters and even odder performances. Ending up in strong contrast between strong and total silly (which are often most of the others figures appearing in the movie). But in the end the movie really just circles around the 2 main characters and their love hate relationship and their totally contrary oppinions towards life and death.
Thirst is a vampire movie that finally tries to push some new life into the genre of vampire movies. which is so uninterestingly oversaturated lately. Getting rid of myths and legend and keeping the plot on a quite small area of time and space. While maintaining images of shock and awe and above all this movie, as the grandfather of vamp fiction mr. stoker, pushed the boundaries of content for a mainstream media (in korea) even further.
Chan Wook Park once again presents a movie between intimacy and cruelty. Once again showing his signature of classical music, bizarre story and nerve wrecking scenes.
As much as i liked "iam a cyborg and thats ok" i gotta say, that thirst is Parks best movie since oldboy and really shows that this man is up there in the world wide top 10 and that you cant and shouldnt ignore korea as a movie country...where else should Hollywood buy their movie scripts?