YMMV / Thirst (2009)

• Squick: As is typical in a Park Chan-wook movie:
  • The effects of the EV virus are really unpleasant. Sang-hyun's fingernails fall out at some point.
  • The close-ups of the different open wounds, often with blood seeping out.
• Values Dissonance: Sang-hyun's breaking his celibacy vows. In Korea, celibacy is highly unpopular^note It's pretty much No. 1, 2 and 3 reasons why it's so hard to find young men willing to join the seminary, even when they are deeply religious Catholics, so him having carnal temptations was seen as acceptable - he shouldn't be doing that, but a man is a man. When the film was released abroad, the exact same scenes were interpreted as him Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, rather than being a mere start of Slowly Slipping Into Evil.

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