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Oldboy

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

I liked and was really disturbed by this twisted, very well-acted and well-written Korean mystery/thriller. A drunken and sort of obnoxious Korean salary man is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years before being inexplicably released, given money and sent on a mission to find his captor. His wife his dead, his young daughter gone, his life in tatters, he tries to figure out what happened to him and why. Where was he and why was he there?. Was there any meaning?. This is a scary and pretty depraved piece of film-making. It works but is very unsettling. Two film-freak friends of mine described it as “brilliant” and one of their favorites. A Korean colleague of mine protested that Korean culture isn’t the twisted mess described in the film. Well worth seeing but definitely not cinematic warm milk. See it but enter knowing it’s not for the faint of heart

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