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Today, I have brought a 2005 crime drama thriller film called, “Lady Vengeance.”
It follows the story of a beautiful woman, who spent the last 13 years in prison for
a crime she didn’t commit.
During her imprisonment, she fantasized about getting her revenge on the person responsible
for her imprisonment.
Will she be able to take her revenge?
To know what happens, watch till the end.
A Christian musical procession is waiting outside a prison for the release of Lee Geum-zaa.
As soon as she walks out of the prison, they start singing and gift her a symbolic block
of tofu.
She was sentenced to jail for 13 years for kidnapping and murdering a 6 year old boy
named Won-moo. 13 years ago, Geum-zaa confessed her crime and became a national sensation,
not because she committed the crime, but because she was too beautiful to commit such a crime.
Geum-zaa was 19 at that time and no one could believe that there was a monster behind such
an angelic face.
During her incarceration, she became an inspirational model for other prisoners and reformed herself
to become a better person.
Because of her improved behaviour and apparent spiritual transformation, she managed to get
an early release.
Geum-zaa throws the block of tofu, curses the preacher, and calmly walks away.
It turns out that Geum-zaa’s kind-hearted behaviour in the prison was just an act to
gain favour and reduce her jail sentence.
She goes to meet her friend named Kim Yang-hee, who once served with her at the prison.
Geum-zaa asks her to provide her shelter and food for some time.
Yang-hee notices the change in Geum-zaa and realizes that she was pretending the entire
time to be a good person.
Yang-hee asks Geum-zaa if her plan has already started, to which Geum-zaa replies that the
plan started 13 years ago itself.
The next morning, Geum-zaa goes to meet Won-moo’s parents and cuts her finger to seek forgiveness.
Before she could cut more fingers, she faints and is quickly rushed to the hospital.
Six days later, she starts working at a pastry shop, where she meets Geun-shik, a young shop
assistant, who is instantly attracted to Geum-zaa’s angelic beauty.
Later, Geum-zaa goes to meet another cellmate named Woo So-young.
While serving her sentence in prison, she suffered from chronic kidney failure.
But Geum-zaa saved her life by donating her kidney to So-young.
Since So-young is indebted to Geum-zaa for saving her life, she and her husband agree
to help Geum-zaa with her plan.
So Geum-zaa shows them an old blueprint of a gun, which she wants the couple to build
for her.
Geum-zaa then goes to meet another former inmate named Oh Su-hee, who was arrested for
adultery.
Su-hee asks Geum-zaa if she found the guy she was looking for.
Geum-zaa responds that she did find him, but hasn’t killed him yet, as she is busy right
now.
While working at the bakery shop, Geum-zaa meets the detective, who was in charge of
her case.
When Geum-zaa was 19 years old, she confessed to having kidnapped Won-moo and killed him.
But the detective knew that Geum-zaa was innocent and she didn’t murder anyone.
Despite this, he helped Geum-zaa re-enact the murder to make it look more credible because
Geum-zaa asked him to do so.
Geun-shik is moved by her story and begins crying.
When Geum-zaa was 18 years old, she got pregnant and was afraid to go home to her parents.
So she turned to her teacher named Mr Baek for help.
When Geum-zaa was arrested for Won-moo’s murder, she got separated from her daughter.
So now that she is released from the prison, Geum-zaa begins searching for her daughter,
who was adopted by a couple.
One day, Geun-shik expresses his feelings for Geum-zaa and tells her that he wants to
start a family with her.
He doesn’t care about her past and hopes that she will try to become a better person.
Geum-zaa is impressed with Geun-shik for being straightforward and takes him to her room,
where they mate.
Afterwards, Geum-zaa tells Geun-shik that Mr Baek took her in under two conditions:
She will become his mating partner, and she will assist him to kidnap young kids to get
the ransom.
One day, she lured Won-moo and took him to Mr Baek, who then killed him just because
he was crying a lot.
Since there was a witness who saw Geum-zaa kidnap Won-moo, Mr Baek kidnapped Geum-zaa’s
daughter and forced her to take the blame, or else he would have killed her daughter.
All these years, Geum-zaa spent planning her revenge on Mr Baek, who took away her daughter,
her 13 years of life, and branded her a murderer.
Geum-zaa manages to find her daughter and flies to Australia.
Her daughter’s name is Jenny and is an adolescent now.
She was adopted by an Australian couple and she doesn’t speak Korean.
Geum-zaa requests the couple to take care of Jenny and provide her with everything.
But Jenny is curious about her biological mother and demands to go to Korea with Geum-zaa,
as she wants to bond with her mother.
When Geum-zaa refuses, Jenny threatens to kill herself.
So Geum-zaa is forced to bring Jenny with her back to Korea.
Geum-zaa’s custom made gun is finally ready, which she intends to use to kill Mr Baek.
A couple of days later, Geun-shik, Geum-zaa, and Jenny go on a trip.
They arrive at an abandoned school, where Geun-shik tries to teach Jenny the Korean
language.
Mr Baek now works as a teacher at a preschool.
He is married to an ex-convict named Park Li-jeong, who used to be bullied by a cruel
inmate during her imprisonment.
Geum-zaa freed Li-jeong from her by poisoning the food of the cruel inmate with bleach.
Now that Geum-zaa is released, Li-jeong goes to meet her and gives her the current address
of Mr Baek.
She too wants to be free from the grasp of Mr Baek, as he uses her body to satisfy his
mating hunger.
Unbeknownst to them, the preacher takes pictures of them together.
He then goes to meet Mr Baek and shows him the pictures of Geum-zaa and Li-jeong together.
It is then revealed that the preacher actually works for Mr Baek, and has been spying on
Geum-zaa since she was released.
Later, when Li-jeong returns home, Mr Baek ties her and then proceeds to eat the food.
He then hires local thugs to kill Geum-zaa and Jenny, as he knows that Geum-zaa is seeking
revenge on him.
But before they could hurt her or Jenny, Geum-zaa kills the thugs by shooting them straight
in the face.
Meanwhile, Mr Baek passes out, as Li-jeong had mixed poison in the food.
Shortly afterwards, Geum-zaa and Jenny come there.
Geum-zaa cuts Mr Baek’s hair and laughs hysterically.
Later, she finds a letter written by Jenny in English.
Geum-zaa translates the letter using a dictionary and learns that Jenny wanted to take revenge
on her for abandoning her, but since she didn’t know what her mother looked like, she couldn’t
do so.
She wants to know the reason why Geum-zaa abandoned her.
Then only she will truly forgive her mother.
Geum-zaa takes Mr Baek to the abandoned schoolhouse from earlier and ties him to a chair.
Geum-zaa then threatens Mr Baek at gunpoint to translate her words for Jenny.
Geum-zaa explains that since she went to jail soon after giving birth to Jenny, she couldn’t
even celebrate her first birthday.
After killing Mr Baek, she wants Jenny to return to her adoptive parents, as she will
be arrested again for her crimes.
Geum-zaa apologises to Jenny for not being able to take care of her and asks for forgiveness.
Jenny forgives Geum-zaa and the two embrace each other.
She then directs Li-jeong to take Jenny away and goes back to finish Mr Baek.
As she is about to finish him, she discovers the red marble from Won-moo’s crime scene
in Mr Baek’s cell phone strap.
Mr Baek has taken it as a trophy.
Geum-zaa also discovers other children’s trinkets on the strap.
Geum-zaa realises that Won-moo wasn’t the only victim of Mr Baek.
There were many other children like Won-moo, who were murdered by Mr Baek.
Geum-zaa is horrified by this revelation and strangles Mr Baek, beats him multiple times,
and finally shoots him in both of his feet.
Geum-zaa feels guilty because if she had never taken the blame for murdering Won-moo, then
maybe the other children might have been alive today.
She then calls the Detective from earlier and tells him everything.
They go to Mr Baek’s apartment and find snuff tapes of the other children he murdered.
Geum-zaa and the detective call the parents of the children to the abandoned schoolhouse
and show them the videotapes.
The parents are horrified by the videotapes and start crying after learning that the children
were brutally tortured by Mr Baek before their death.
Geum-zaa reveals that Mr Baek was never a part of a ransoming racket.
He would simply kidnap a child and then murder them from each school he worked at, just because
he found them annoying.
After killing a child, Mr Baek would fake a ransom call to the parents, collect the
money, and then move on to a different school.
The parents are devastated to see the tapes and decide to take revenge on Mr Baek by torturing
him to death.
They decide to take turns while torturing Mr Baek to make him suffer.
Won-moo’s mother is the first to torture Mr Baek.
Once she is done, the rest of the group torture Mr Baek one by one.
They beat him, mutilate him, and torture him to death.
Once Mr Baek is dead, they clean the place to get rid of any evidence.
They then take a group photo, so that none of them can turn in the others without implicating
themselves.
Afterwards, they bury the body in an isolated place, where it will never be discovered.
Geum-zaa’s revenge is now finally complete.
She feels relieved for letting the parents take their revenge as well.
Later, Geum-zaa, the detective, and the parents gather at the bakery shop and sing happy birthday
to celebrate Mr Baek’s death.
Afterwards, all the parents take the children’s leftover trinkets from Mr Baek’s phone strap
and leave for home.
When everyone leaves, Geum-zaa sees the ghost of Won-moo, who then transforms into a grown
man, the age he would have been if he had lived.
She then walks down the road on a snowy night.
On her way, she sees Jenny, who just couldn’t leave her mother.
Geum-zaa gives her tofu and instructs her daughter to live purely, just like tofu.
Geum-zaa then buries her face in an all-white frosting covered tofu and starts crying.
Jenny hugs her mother and comforts her.
Geum-zaa no longer has to live the life of a criminal and has got a second chance in
life, where she can live happily with her daughter Jenny.
So this was the story of “Lady Vengeance.”
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