Oldboy (2003)
Country: KOR
Technical: col/Super 35 120m
Director: Park Chanwook
Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Yoo Ji-Tae, Gang Hye-Jung
Synopsis:
A ladies' man is imprisoned for fifteen years by a bearer of a grudge and on release relentlessly pursues his antagonist, who is actually pulling all the strings.
Review:
Only an oriental culture could produce a film in which characters would credibly cut off their tongue or invite a man they have kept prisoner for years to kill them or never find out why. This is a ferociously stylish film which is almost subsumed by its cleverness and which is less about the all-consuming desire for vengeance than a sick joke film in the manner of Se7en or a Roald Dahl tale of the unexpected. That it contrives to be remarkably lyrical amid all the violence is one of its many pleasing features.
Country: KOR
Technical: col/Super 35 120m
Director: Park Chanwook
Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Yoo Ji-Tae, Gang Hye-Jung
Synopsis:
A ladies' man is imprisoned for fifteen years by a bearer of a grudge and on release relentlessly pursues his antagonist, who is actually pulling all the strings.
Review:
Only an oriental culture could produce a film in which characters would credibly cut off their tongue or invite a man they have kept prisoner for years to kill them or never find out why. This is a ferociously stylish film which is almost subsumed by its cleverness and which is less about the all-consuming desire for vengeance than a sick joke film in the manner of Se7en or a Roald Dahl tale of the unexpected. That it contrives to be remarkably lyrical amid all the violence is one of its many pleasing features.
Country: KOR
Technical: col/Super 35 120m
Director: Park Chanwook
Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Yoo Ji-Tae, Gang Hye-Jung
Synopsis:
A ladies' man is imprisoned for fifteen years by a bearer of a grudge and on release relentlessly pursues his antagonist, who is actually pulling all the strings.
Review:
Only an oriental culture could produce a film in which characters would credibly cut off their tongue or invite a man they have kept prisoner for years to kill them or never find out why. This is a ferociously stylish film which is almost subsumed by its cleverness and which is less about the all-consuming desire for vengeance than a sick joke film in the manner of Se7en or a Roald Dahl tale of the unexpected. That it contrives to be remarkably lyrical amid all the violence is one of its many pleasing features.