Jia Tolentino on the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden,” whose latest project is “The Sympathizer,” a miniseries for HBO.
Park was sitting nearby, in a shaded corner that served, for the day, as video village, the spot on a film set where the production team gathers around monitors to review each take. At sixty, Park, who is Korean, has a mop of silver hair and an obscurely regal demeanor. He wore woven leather sandals and vented performance gear, as if he were about to go fishing. Nearly everyone referred to him as Director Park, following a Korean practice of using the title as an honorific.
“Sympathy,” which is part of a loose trilogy with Park’s following two movies, “Oldboy” and “Lady Vengeance,” is a procession of disturbing images. Four men spoon one another, masturbating together as they listen through a wall to the sister moaning in agony from her disease. Blood seeps out of the factory worker’s severed Achilles tendons as he dies in a river. “As I made it,” Park told his old classmate Kim Young-jin, “I was giggling from start to finish.
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