The Thinking Machine 25

Just four minutes of Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) are set, and were filmed, in Australia. Yet in these few minutes an entire image of the nation, its (white) people and its culture, are conjured. From the Antipodal ‘Oz’ as the eternal Land Upside Down to the life-long drunken infantilism of its inhabitants: it’s all here. Where did Park get these images from?