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{{quote|''Ma'am, there is no such thing as a "perfect person"...'' |'''Mr. Baek'''}}
The third film of [[Park Chan
Lee Geum-ja, a 19-year-old girl paying the price of some bad decisions, is blackmailed into [[False Confession|falsely confessing]] to the murder of a child. After 14 years in prison, she emerges a cold, vengeance-driven woman, dropping the kind, gentle facade that had won her the friendship and loyalty of the other female prisoners.
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Using her connections formed in prison, Geum-ja sets into motion a plan 14 years in the making. Her goal is to punish Mr. Baek, the real murderer; however, even [[Revenge]] may not be enough for Geum-ja to find redemption.
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* [[Anti
* [[The Atoner]]
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** Geum-ja takes this far enough to seek out the murdered boy's parents and [[Yubitsume|cut her finger off in front of them as an apology]].
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Geum-ja's [[Hand Cannon|custom-made handgun]] is aesthetic and very powerful, but it can only be fired at a very close range.
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* [[The Killer Becomes the Killed]]
* [[Mama Bear]]
* [[May
** The young guy that works with Geum-Ja is very attracted to her and even asks if he can call her "big sister" (a term of affection that can have different meanings). She shoots him down but later uses him to teach her daughter Korean since she was raised in Australia.
** Geum-Ja herself was infatuated with Mr. Baek when she was a teenager and had an affair with the much older man. She ended up getting pregnant from a different relationship (this time, a classmate) and asked Baek to help her take care of the child, which kicks off the plot. She considered the relationship much more seriously than Baek did.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Geum-Ja's daughter Jenny.
* [[Narrator All Along]]: {{spoiler|Geum-Ja's daughter, when she grew up.}}
* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]: In prison, Geum-Ja makes a reputation for being kind, helpful and friendly. Even when she {{spoiler|poisons the witch to death by putting detergent in her food}}, [[You Kill It, You Bought It|gaining her the nickname of "Witch"]], she's ''still'' referred to as "the kind one". Because [[Beware the Nice Ones|they aren't mutually exclusive]].
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]
* [[Out
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Not done on purpose in Geum-Ja's case.
* [[Prison Rape]]: This movie is one of the few that depict prison rape among women.
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: Invoked with the witch. When she murders and eats her husband and his lover, only a brief shot of her eating [[Mystery Meat]] is given; the scene where she rapes another inmate, however, [[Rape
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Red Eyeshadow Take Warning]]
* [[Revenge]]
* [[Kick the Dog|Shoot The Dog]]: Geum-Ja apparently tests herself to see if she has a killer instinct by {{spoiler|shooting her daughter's pet dog}}. This could elicit a [[Moral Event Horizon]] or a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] reaction from the audience.
* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]
* [[To the Pain]]: Geum-Ja puts a microphone in the room where she and the parents are discussing how to kill Baek, and a speaker where he's being held.
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Baek's mementos are later given to the victims' relatives.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Geum-ja.
* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: It turns out Geum-ja even pretended to like a lesbian ''simply to use her as a resource for revenge.''
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What You Are in
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: {{spoiler|Geum-ja kills the witch in a pretty nasty way, and promptly inherits her title. To a much more chilling extent, Baek keeps personal mementos from the children he murders and uses some of them as phone charms.}}
* [[Yubitsume]]
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