#Ha-kyun Shin

[guemul]

#proud bi icon

[byneddiedingo]

Ha-kyun Shin and Doona Bae in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002) Cast: Ha-kyun Shin, Hang-ko Song, Doona Bae, Ji-eun Lim, Bo-bae Han. Screenplay: Park Chan-wook, Jae-sun Lee, Jong-yong Lee, Mu-yeong Lee. Cinematography: Byeong-il Kim. Production design: Jung-hwa Choe. In his "vengeance trilogy," Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy (2003), and Lady Vengeance (2005), Park Chan-wook has given us not only, as some have suggested, an updated version of the Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies like Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, but also a vision of hell, especially if you adhere to Sartre's idea  that hell is other people. Park has a way of populating his stories with nightmare figures that play no essential role in the plot, like the dudes in the next room who masturbate to the sound of Ryu's (Ha-kyun Shin) sister (Ji-eun Lim) groaning in pain (which Ryu himself, being a deaf-mute, cannot hear), or the mysterious mentally and physically afflicted man who appears as Ryu is trying to cover his sister's body with stones and persists in trying to remove them until he's driven away, meanwhile distracting Ryu from the drowning Yu-sun (Bo-bae Han). There's also the fired employee who stops Dong-jin Park's ( Hang-ko Song) car and proceeds with a failed attempt at seppuku, heightening Dong-jin's feelings of guilt, perhaps, but not providing an essential element in the narrative. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is, I think, the least successful of the three films: It doesn't succeed in transcending the revenge motif the way Oldboy does with its echoes of Dostoevsky and Kafka, and it doesn't have the technical finesse of Lady Vengeance. Its chief virtue is, especially in comparison with Lady Vengeance, the relative straightforwardness of its narrative, with the added ambiguity of its title: Is Ryu or Dong-jin "Mr. Vengeance"? In fact, the film is less about vengeance than about guilt: Ryu's sister commits suicide because she feels guilty for the kidnapping of Yu-sun, and passes along the burden of guilt to her brother when Yu-sun dies, while Dong-jin is filled with remorse over the consequences of his business failure. Park Chan-wook's characters exist in a world where there's no escape from guilt and no hope for redemption. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

[ladyverdance]

backward into first causes—stone in the pond of things, splash splash—or we throw ourselves into the future. we all move forward anyway. ripples in all directions.

what is a ghost?

— landscape with fruit rot and millipede, by richard silken

[suuho]

I'd be running up that road, be running up that hill, with no problem.

괴물 / BEYOND EVIL (2021) dir. Shim Na Yeon

[dailyasiandramas]

dailyasiandramas’ sunday throwback ★ [WEEK 27]

BEYOND EVIL 괴물 [2021] Dir. Shim Na Yeon

[fridayvelvet]

Shin Hakyun for Allure

[dangermousie]

The sane one as the leash on the feral one is one of my fave tropes, but the fact that here the feral one is TELLING the sane one he needs him to be that, basically, to try to stop his freak out and reassure him and return him to his sane-ish self? AAAAAAAAAAAAA

[feydpauls]

evilive (2023) + text posts

[orangesyellow]

He said I shouldn’t ruin my life any further, that he’d take care of everything. That’s how he wants to a t o n e for what happened. I can’t let that fool go down a l o n e.

— Happy holidays Kinga (@yohankang)! I hope 2024 is starting off on a high and stays that way!

[skylessknights]

Seo Do-young and Han Dong-soo in EVILIVE (2023)

insp

[itagakimizuki]

Let's keep this going while we're at it. Rather than visiting prisons, being a legal advisor...is cool.

EVILIVE (2023) ep 3

[guemul]

I won't be gone. I'm saying, I won't be gone from your sight. If you don't arrest me, I won't ever turn myself in. Please arrest me now.

[ladyverdance]

You didn't do anything like that. None of that happened. By any chance, is this the precious secret of yours that someone took to the grave?

Shin Ha-kyun as Lee Dong-sik BEYOND EVIL (2021), dir. Na-Yeon Shim

[suuho]

SHIN CHAIL & GU HANSU + height difference

[fridayvelvet]

the way Hakyun looks like he’s in his 20s while being 49 is genuinely driving me insane

[dangermousie]

I love them so much omg.