"After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days."
Oldboy from Director Chan-wook Park was released in 2003 and is part 2 in Chan-wook's "Revenge Trilogy". The first thing that sticks out about Oldboy is its fantastic screenplay, the Vividness of the locations, the colours, the characters, the violence. It takes you from its opening moments and doesn't let you go intill the very end in its 2hr running time. The story is gripping, the characters believable and well rounded. The acting is throughout is great, full of raw emotion, and with this film it's really a perfect example of how the music can make a film better as a hole, as the soundtrack for this film is flawless from top to bottom. Chan-wook Park is a very methodical director. He squeezes everything he can out of the story, his actors, the Film as a hole. Though not required viewing to get the most out of Oldboy you really own it to yourself to seek out all three of Park's revenge films as again in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Park's work is in full display. It's just too bad that already there remaking this film. Good to see Hollywood is keeping there streak of originality in check..*cough*
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Oldboy from Director Chan-wook Park was released in 2003 and is part 2 in Chan-wook's "Revenge Trilogy". The first thing that sticks out about Oldboy is its fantastic screenplay, the Vividness of the locations, the colours, the characters, the violence. It takes you from its opening moments and doesn't let you go intill the very end in its 2hr running time. The story is gripping, the characters believable and well rounded. The acting is throughout is great, full of raw emotion, and with this film it's really a perfect example of how the music can make a film better as a hole, as the soundtrack for this film is flawless from top to bottom. Chan-wook Park is a very methodical director. He squeezes everything he can out of the story, his actors, the Film as a hole. Though not required viewing to get the most out of Oldboy you really own it to yourself to seek out all three of Park's revenge films as again in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Park's work is in full display. It's just too bad that already there remaking this film. Good to see Hollywood is keeping there streak of originality in check..*cough*
Trailer
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