The Big Picture One year into the Twilight phenomenon that took the world by storm, South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook released his own take on a vampiric romance, Thirst. The film stars Parasite's Song Kang-ho as a priest, Sang-hyun, who becomes a vampire after a medical experiment goes awry. Eventually, he becomes intertwined in a murderous affair with his friend's wife Tae-ju, played by Kim Ok-bin.
Thirst R Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. The process was more of a reverse engineering of the book, as Park Chan-wook began working on the simple concept of a movie about a priest dealing with an intense moral struggle. The director spoke with 7x7 about how the project grew in its initial stages, explaining that vampirism worked as a metaphorical depiction of a priest's struggle, as he would be forced to kill to survive.
Their relationship reaches a critical point when Sang-hyun discovers that the husband was not abusive, and Tae-ju begs to be put out of her misery, so she may rejoin him in the afterlife. Sang-hyun kills her but quickly revives her by turning her into a vampire. This puts them both on an accelerated path toward monstrosity, as Tae-ju grows more unhinged and kills anyone who might know their secret.
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