Thrist

Thirst

Park Chan-Wook
2009

Thirst is a Korean horror film that takes on this version of the vampire. This film succeeds in bring forth the legendary monster known to us as the vampire, where other modern films fall short. Most modern films focus on all the cliques of being a vampire, while Thirst focuses on a realistic approach to the vampire. The film is filled with settle yet intense violence, which in the end makes it scarier then your regular hack and slash. You are literally on your toes the whole time during the film. It really just seeks up on you at unexpected times so much that you start to think that very scene is going to have something freaky happen. However the film is to balance it out with an intense romance plot, which leads our leading characters too their doom.

By the end of the film one of the main themes that I personally felt repeated it self through out the film was the human limit. In this film when though you are a vampire and are no longer considered to be human in our world. You were still born as a human and you still grew up as a human, so human tendencies are all you really know. It's not like clique 'Oh I'm a vampire, guess I'm going to act like a vampire now' mentality at other film characters seem to have.

Our main character Sang-Hyun, whom starts off as a Catholic struggles with this the entire movie. Even through he knows that he is now vampire he still thinks in the mind set of a human as far of what is morally right or wrong. He tries not to kill people, he doesn't hold himself as a superior being, and overall he is his trying to live out his human life while adjusting to this whole vampire issues. And in the beginning he seems to have a strong will and determination. But this film show us that even the most strongest of wills can submit to temptation. Our protagonist falls in love which cause him to break every rule that he believes in, causing a lot of pain on the way. Unable to deal with the guilt and have the need to fix everything our protagonist ends up killing himself and her in order to make things right. Or could this suicide just be another part of his will just being broken.