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Thirst is a horror-satirical drama that explores humanity's bestial side through the story of a Catholic priest, Father Hyun, who volunteers for a medical experiment and becomes infected with a vampire virus. He finds that consuming human blood allows him to stay alive but also stokes his lustful desires. He develops an obsession with the wife of a family he helps. The film blends vampire lore with the seven deadly sins and features explicit sex and violence. It offers a more realistic and unconventional take on vampirism than typical Hollywood films.

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Thirst

Thirst is a horror-satirical drama that explores humanity's bestial side through the story of a Catholic priest, Father Hyun, who volunteers for a medical experiment and becomes infected with a vampire virus. He finds that consuming human blood allows him to stay alive but also stokes his lustful desires. He develops an obsession with the wife of a family he helps. The film blends vampire lore with the seven deadly sins and features explicit sex and violence. It offers a more realistic and unconventional take on vampirism than typical Hollywood films.

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Theatre and Film Appreciation

Patarchat Sorkhay (May)


534 07519 22
“Review: Thirst”
Thirst is a horror-satirical drama that explores the bestial side of humanity that
is quite bizarre but the film glimpses at the psyche that comes from alienation and
loneliness, while becoming a slave of lust. Sang Hyun is a Catholic priest who
volunteers in a local hospital. Father Hyun is well respected but he secretly suffers
from doubtlessness as he witnesses the dismal of the world around him. He has
volunteered to seize portion in an experiment to eradicate Emmanuel Virus (EV).
Father Hyun becomes stricken with the deadly virus and a blood transfusion is
ordered up for him to save his life; in turn he becomes the first survivor of the deadly
virus. Unfortunately, after a blood transfusion Sang-Hyun finds out that the blood he
had received is infected and he is now living as a vampire; consumption of human
blood is the only way he can staves off the virus. His addiction has given him the
vampire's traditional powers – though not the comedy fangs – and the ability to cure
the sick. When he miraculously heals a cancer patient, he discovers that this man's
mother, a domineering matron called Madame Ra, knew him as a boy, and Hyan
becomes a friend of the family. He soon conceives a sexual obsession with the son's
beautiful wife Tae-Ju. She ecstatically submits to his lust and to her own new destiny
as a vampire. Sang-Hyun is now overwhelmed with his desires for flesh, as he
plunges deep within the world of sexual desires that brings him in intimate terms with
the “Seven Deadly Sins.”
Park Chan-Wook created a vampire lore that blends smoothly with the
elements of the Seven Deadly Sins; Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Greed, Pride, Wrath and
Envy:
The need for human blood is important to stave off the virus that somewhat
touches on the sin of “Gluttony”. “Lust and Envy” is represented through Father
Hyun’s desire for Tae-Ju. “Pride” is represented when Hyun allows himself to be seen
as a “Saint” at first. “Sloth” is when he gains lesions and when he has to live in a dirty
basement. “Greed” as he worries of dying and long for a companionship. “Wrath” as
Hyun is led to cancel and he is brought face to face with the consequences of his
actions. Vampirism becomes the ultimate root of sin in the eyes of Father Hyun but it
also has liberated him from his inhibitions.
Father Hyun becomes a compelling character, as he is torn between survival
and humanity. “God feeds even the birds in the sky,” stated Hyun. In order for his
survival, Hyun resorts to drinking blood of unconscious patients in the hospital
without killing them and people who wish to suicide. He also tries to overcome his
lust by hitting his thighs when he is sexually arouse. As Hyun becomes more aware of
himself as a vampire he leaves the Order. Tae-Ju character is an imbalanced woman
of a manipulative nature. She seduces the edifying priest and leads him into believing
that she is an abused wife. Tae-Ju is a woman who has no reliance for her husband
and is in need of freedom. After Tae-Ju becomes a vampire, she insists on the glory of
the hunt and the honesty of evil: without the attack and submission, she believes that
vampirism is meaningless and unentertaining. She insulted Hyun that he is an "easy
blood-drinking coward!”
The film has a black humor into the proceedings in order to prevent it from
becoming heavy going and frequently amusing in places. Playful irony is seen almost
in every frame, though it refrains from taking too much mean spirited glee from the
perversion of the protagonist’s honest righteousness. Despite previous statement, the
film is accompanied by plenty of blood and violence, though the director, Mr.Park
Chan Wook, the director, smoothes every single element into the film very
effectively. There is also a fair amount of explicit sex and eroticism, which plays an
important part in its character development and the atmosphere.
Theatre and Film Appreciation
Patarchat Sorkhay (May)
534 07519 22
“Review: Thirst”
Thirst is out-of-mainstream approaches to vampire movie. Mr. Park was able
to reach up with an exquisite film of elegy, while exploring the flaws of the human
mind that treats vampirism, as a cause for the realization of one’s carnal desires,
incorporating with a Catholic overtone. Unlike, other Hollywood’s vampire’s movie,
the film offers more realistic approaches to vampirism and the society. One could
thinks of Mr.Park’s film as “out-of-the-box” vampire’s movie of the 21st century!

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