Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

ashild-blovvig One thing I've noticed with Chan-Wook Park's movies is that his strongest skills lies in the visuals, while sometimes the story has some bigger holes and weaknesses. This is especially the case of Thirst.I enjoy Chan-Wook Park's movies as any other, I love his visual style. I think my favourite so far is The Handmaiden. Oldboy is also good. First, some complaints.My problem with this movie is that it doesn't seem to know exactly what it wants to be. It's a bit dark, but not that dark. It's a bit comical and odd, but not that odd or not that comical. It has elements of a long Journey/rise and fall story, but doesn't fill that criteria either. I had quite many problems with the end because it built up to something dramatic (not epic, but quite emotional), but in between of when you know what is going to happen and the ending itsself, there's some odd, misplased comical part (but it also seemed natural at the same time, because of the weird comedy? I have mixed feelings about it), and I didn't believe the way Tae-ju (Ok-bin Kim) acted and reacted to any of it (I feel that's more fault on the screenplay and less on the actress).The movie jumps a lot in time and has a lot of fades where there's no necessity for fades. One character is about to say something, but then it cuts to something else, one thing happens, and the next there's a misplaced scene right after it. I've seen movies where this kind of editing can work, but in this movie, it just doesn't work that well. There were also a couple of scenes where the action of a character really didn't make sense and wasn't explained in any way.I like the characters, but some of them (especially Tae-ju) have some strange character arcs that somehow doesn't fit right with me. It works and doesn't work at the same time. They're interesting, but also act strange and unnatural, so it's difficult to know where you have them, and it makes them unpredictable in their behaviour (which, depending on your taste, can be good or bad).Another complaint is that whoever did the sound design was a little too liberal with the licking/sucking/spit/mouth sounds. I get that it can be emphasized in a vampire movie, but it loses it's effect after the first ten times.Now, things I liked:I do like that the movie is a little out of the box when it comes to the vampire theme, although it still follows the more typical love vampire story. There's luckily no "order" or something of vampires, no explanation of where it came from, it just so happens that Sang-hyeon (Kang-ho Song) was unlucky and got the wrong blood. I like the lore in this one, where if he doesn't feed, he starts to become ill almost like a leper.And my favourite actor in this movie, I have to say, is the mother Lady Ra (Hae-suk Kim). She's plays her character perfectly, she's maleficent and kind of evil, but also really funny (my favourite line by her has to be the very simple and short "Closing time" when the shops closes after no customers for the whole day), loves her son (a little too much), and further out in the film gets more and more interesting.The visuals are, as always, beautiful. Like I mentioned, Chan-wook Park is really good with visuals, and I'm glad he continues to use it.The movie is in general enjoyable. I can ignore the oddities, or appreciate them, and enjoy it as a relatively simple movie. I'd say this is a good vampire movie, not great, but worth a watch.

ICanNeverThinkOfAGoodUsername (I'm not from South Korea so maybe that's why I didn't like this film that much) This film was weird. The scenes between the characters was weird. The sexual scenes were particularly weird. However, throughout the film I was never bored. In a strange way I wanted to keep on watching the film despite it not being that good.It wasn't really a good film. It didn't really make any real sense. It was an extremely weird film to watch. I felt no connection towards any of the characters and some scenes were confusing.Overall, I wouldn't recommend this film. It was somewhat boring but once you started watching it you want to keep on watching it because it's so weird.

tendobear I felt that this movie was weird weird weird, and that's no easy statement especially when the movie in question is directed by the guy who did Oldboy, Lady Vengeance etc. This has got to be one of the strangest movies I've seen in a long time. I know that vampire movies inherently have a strange streak through them, but in this case - in my opinion - was detrimental to the movie as a whole. We get what we've come to expect from the director: dark, moody sets; humour as black as tar; quirky characters all playing to a baroque-style strings accompaniment, with a healthy splash of the old vermilion. A vampire movie should be prime Park material, but I think he seems to have over-indulged himself a little bit here - the movie was just way too long for its own good, and nothing much really happens for the first 3/4 of the movie, and then all the necessary action just seems to be crammed into the last 1/4. I was really looking forward to watching this for a long time, but truth be told, i was slightly disappointed - feels too much like a perfect opportunity was missed.

myungjahigh It was interesting to see a new kind of vampire in Thirst. A priest turning into a vampire, this idea is fresh and new. This movie reminds me of the literature The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both works have the same links in terms of religion, gender, sin, redemption, etc. As Hester and Dimmesdale were suppressed by the society and religion, Tae-ju and Sang-hyeon were under oppression. In Thirst, the oppression suffocating them revived and became tremendous desires when the couple turned into vampires. The desires gulf almost every people including Tae-ju and Sang-hyeon. A little bit unlike The Scarlet Letter, Thirst shows throughout the process how they sinned and its reason and result.In The Scarlet Letter, Hester should live along with redemption due to the love with Dimmesdale, a minister. She put a letter A on her clothes as a mark of her sin. However, she made the A with fabulous scarlet color, which stands for her desire. In Thirst Tae-ju displayed her desire by sucking red blood. She lived with the desire pretty much excessively. The reason why Sang-hyeon and Tae-ju became to live like this is, i think, not because of their innate endless desire, but because of the irresistible oppression put on them. Just like human would fly without landing forever if he is released from the physical fetter. However, the reasons of oppression are different for them. As a priest, Sang-hyeon chose the oppression of his own will in order to be faithful to God. In contrary, Tae-ju had lived under suppression, and she could not had resisted against it. It was not her own will. Furthermore, it is very interesting that it is a priest and a vampire Sang-hyeon who revived, killed, and incriminated Tae-ju. Even after Tae-ju got to get rid of oppression, she had to face another tragedy that she actually has nothing to choose on her own. What is more, she couldn't help but wait for her death sitting next to Sang-hyeon who wait for redemption. Tae-ju couldn't be redeemed, not like Sang-hyeon. In short, she had to live only with another's will from start to end. The situation is repeated in Thirst that Dimmesdale made his destiny by himself with much relief although Hester got ignored and sacrificed in The Scarlet Letter. It might be the reason the death of Taejoo is reliving and pitiful at the same time. Horrible desires are punished in the film. But the punishment is not applied to Sang-hyeon, because he was redeemed. The one who got it is Tae-ju, and her desire is still in her boot which didn't turn into ashes. All the actors did great job. Especially, Kim Hae Suk and Shin Ha kyun worked nicely. In the film, Shin didn't take a big part, but his character Kang-woo is very important and he played well. (maybe he is Chillingworth from The Scarlet Letter? they have pretty many similarities) If you like this movie and Shin, i would like to recommend the korean film called "Guns and Talks."