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  Review by Jay ★★★★★ 18

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Reuniting With My Daughter After 15 Years GONE WRONG

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  Review by Jay ★★★★★ 14

  oh dae-su: licks lee woo-jins feet
  tarantino: god i wish that were me

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★★ 20

  One of the most shocking & disturbing stories of revenge you are ever going to come across, Oldboy is a genre-defining contemporary classic that didn't just set an all new benchmark for revenge-thrillers to follow, which as of today still remain unsurpassed, but continues to be arguably the best film to come out from the South Korean film industry.

  The story concerns Oh Dae-su who is abducted on the night of his young daughter’s birthday and is held captive in an apartment prison for fifteen years without any explanation for why he is there or who imprisoned him, only to be suddenly freed in the same inexplicable way. The remainder of the film follows him trying to uncover the identity & motive…

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  Review by former movie enjoyer ★★★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  the lesson here is that you shouldn't gossip! if you see something, keep it to yourself

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  Review by Lizzy ★★★★★ 4

  the final 20 minutes of this movie make me want to vomit every single time

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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★★★ 20

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Why did Woo-jin imprison me for 15 years? This a wrong question. Why did Woo-jin imprison me with a tv in my room for 15 years and then release me? This is the right question.

  This time around I saw Oldboy in a totally different ray of light and I could really grasp the underlying, satanically cruel scheme of sadism of why Oh Dae Su is provided with a television. That simple inanimate object is his only liaison with the world for 15 arduous years. The world is right in front of his eyes. He can see but now touch it. He can listen but not feel it. He can witness it but cannot live it. He is provided the…

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  Review by 24framesofnick ★★★★★ 2

  This happened to my buddy Eric

  I don’t talk to him anymore

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  Review by Etienne Garde ★★★★★ 13

  Perfection.

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  Review by Marta Luvi ★★★★½ 3

  I guess we know who got the last laugh uh?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  No one. Absolutely no one.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 6

  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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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 16

  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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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 24

  well 😬