Self-proclaimed swiftie Park Chan-wook has openly credited I Bet You Think About Me as the primary inspiration for Lady Vengeance, taking Taylor Swift’s themes of heartbreak and retribution to their most extreme, operatic form. Where Swift’s protagonist crashes a wedding in a red dress to haunt an ex’s conscience, Geum-ja wields her own crimson symbolism with far deadlier intent, orchestrating a years-long revenge plot that forces her enemies to confront their sins in the most visceral way possible. Through moral ambiguity,…
