1. Vengeance (2009) directed by Johnnie To • Reviews, film + cast
Like many of To's movies, Vengeance is about the silliness of honour/brotherhood and the futility of revenge. It might actually be his most streamlined effort ...
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.
2. Vengeance (2009) Movie Review from Eye for Film
May 9, 2010 · "What is revenge?" asks our addled hero – and his words come to resonate in a film where all the typical gestures of vengeance are adopted even ...
If Johnnie To was already looking towards the cinematic sensibilities of French directors Jacques Demy and Robert Bresson with his stylish pickpocket caper Sparrow (2008), then his latest film Vengeance conjures the spirit of Jean-Pierre Melville, with its noirish existentialism, its air of heroic futility, and its interest in the cool processes of criminal action.
3. Park Chan-wook's Road to Revenge - Perisphere
Jun 23, 2023 · “Revenge is an endless circle of evil, going around and around until the chain breaks. We tend to justify vengeance, but it's not my idea to ...
|Luke Mosher| This summer, one of Trylon’s flagship series is a collection of revenge movies called A Dish Best Served Cold. No series on revenge would be complete without a film from Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003)...
4. Marie NDiaye's Drama of Exclusion and Revenge | The New Yorker
Oct 27, 2023 · “Vengeance Is Mine” is a story of class conflict in the guise of a psychological thriller. ... A blackandwhite photograph of police officers ...
“Vengeance Is Mine” is a story of class conflict in the guise of a psychological thriller.
5. Revenge and Nonviolent Struggle in Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider
Bhardwaj reassigns that music to signal Haider's full internalization of Roohdaar's message of deadly vengeance. ... New York, Routledge, 2009. Print ...
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6. What do restorative justice and revenge have in common?
Jun 11, 2009 · To take revenge is one way to liberate oneself of the feelings of anger and dishonor. The score that needs to be settled is a pyshic sore, a ...
When I wrote Changing Lenses in the 1980s, I positioned the concepts of retributive and restorative justice as opposites. Later, in The Little Book of Restorative Justice, I acknowledged that this was not always helpful and, in fact, masked some important commonalities between their underling assumptions. Now I want to go further and explore the connection between revenge and restorative justice. Before you gasp and close this page, stay with me. I’m not trying to rehabilitate the practice of revenge or retribution. Nor is my intention to discount the importance of forgiveness. I do want to explore an underlying link between them, however.
7. Revenge and the people who seek it - American Psychological Association
Jun 1, 2009 · New research offers insight into the dish best served cold. By Michael Price. Monitor Staff. June 2009, Vol 40, No. 6. Print version: page 34. 7 ...
New research offers insight into the dish best served cold.
8. ACTS OF VENGEANCE: Antonio Banderas Takes a Vow of Vengeful ...
Acts of Vengeance is the kind of film where the hero reads books and takes certain quotes and implements them into his martial arts training regimen. It's a ...
Reigning DTV Action King Isaac Florentine Takes A Turn For The EarnestI go out of my way to watch Isaac Florentine films. The maestro behind the Undisputed sequels who more or less discovered and amplified the career of Scott Adkins, Florentine appears to be the living spirit of Golan & Globus’ Cannon Films. (Only in this [...]
9. From South Africa, Lessons In 'Soft Vengeance' - NPR
Nov 25, 2011 · South African Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs, seen here in Johannesburg in 2009, resisted the impulse to take revenge on the bomber who cost him his ...
South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs discusses how a once-divided nation can abandon the impulse to avenge past wrongs and, instead, come together to build a new democracy. One of the framers of the country's constitution, Sachs also mulls over just what it means to determine the "intent" of a nation's founding fathers.
10. Revenge | Encyclopedia MDPI
Oct 11, 2022 · According to Michael Ignatieff, "Revenge is a profound moral desire to keep faith with the dead, to honor their memory by taking up their cause ...
Revenge is defined as the act of committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Francis Bacon...
11. 10 great films about revenge | BFI
Mar 9, 2017 · From Greek tragedy to Shakespeare and beyond, vengeance is an eternal theme in serious drama, where the moral implications of one's right to ...
From Oldboy to Inglourious Basterds, we celebrate the release of Paul Verhoeven’s Elle by charting the many different ways that great movies have treated the theme of revenge.
12. [PDF] The Benefits, Costs, and Paradox of Revenge - the CORE lab
The theme of vengeance runs through classic plays and novels (e.g.,. Iliad, Hamlet, Macbeth, Medea, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Great Gatsby), high and ...
13. The Shocking Anti-Vengeance Message of Oldboy - 25YL
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Oldboy may be a bloody revenge thriller, but it doesn't glorify vengeance. Rather, it shows just how terrible revenge really is.
14. [PDF] What Makes Revenge Satisfactory: Seeing the Offender Suffer or ... - HAL
Mar 9, 2012 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009, 45 (4), pp.840. ... The message of revenge in that kind would be something like. “Never ...
15. [PDF] The Appearance of Revenge in Modern South Korean Cinema By ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Even though the overall theme of Lady Vengeance is vengeance, another ... 33, 2009, pp. 29–51. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23719259 ...
16. 'Blunt Not the Heart, Enrage It': The Psychology of Revenge and ...
Nov 24, 2017 · The instinct for revenge is universal, automatic, and immediate. It also serves a function: to deter the threat of future exploitation.
Scholars and policymakers have a sophisticated view of deterrence, but still have a poor understanding of its psychological underpinnings.
17. A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during ... - eLife
Mar 3, 2020 · In the text below, after describing our experimental design, we ... 2009; Hein et al., 2010; Cikara et al., 2011; Sheng and Han, 2012 ...
Intergroup conflict increases human endogenous oxytocin, which predicts the medial prefrontal activity associated with ingroup pain and propensity to seek revenge upon the outgroup.