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15 years of imprisonment, five days of vengeance
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Oldboy
2003 ‘올드보이’ Directed by Park Chan-wook
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Vengeance Trilogy 2 - Oldboy, Oldŭboi, Oldeuboi, Old Boy, Олдбой, همکلاسی قدیمی, オールド・ボーイ
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One of the most shocking & disturbing tales of revenge you are ever going to come across, Oldboy is a genre-defining classic that didn't just set a new benchmark for revenge-thrillers to follow, which as of today still remains unsurpassed, but still remains the greatest film to come out from the South Korean film industry, and it is in every way director Park Chan-wook's best work to date.
Oldboy tells the story of Oh Dae-su who is abducted on the night of his young daughter’s birthday and is held captive in an apartment prison for 15 years without any clue of why he is there & who imprisoned him, and is later freed in the same inexplicable manner. Rest of the film…
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Loved this movie, but all the real joy of its plotting was stolen from me by college kids who found it off a list of "underrated mindfuck" movies in the '10s and delighted in detailing all the "most epic" parts to anyone who was willing to listen. And boy, was I!
Really funny to imagine an American producer watching Dae-su pop on screen and going "Ohhhhhh yeah. That's Josh Brolin."
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Hammer to the face. Before Parasite was the Korean film adored by the West, there was Oldboy. Nothing can prepare someone for their first viewing of Oldboy. For those who ever revisit it, they forget how darkly comic so much of it seemed at first. It's as if the memory is erased.
Oldboy is a nightmare. Not only because it is so deeply disturbing, but because its black void of evil is so insidious we relate to pain we cannot have gone through. When Oh Dae-su begs by the end, truly the most pathetic of sights, the nightmare is that you understand why. Oldboy has layers of revenge, vengeance pointed in opposite directions, but what's hard to pin is why.…
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They could lock me up for 15 years and make me watch this everyday and i would be fine with it
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