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It’s only recently I’ve been getting a bit more interested in foreign movies (aside from the many Jackie Chan films I love), mainly due to the complete cack that Hollywood is continually shovelling out at the present time. And so this quest for some decent films takes me to the East, to South Korea. To Oldboy.
You may have heard a little about this movie; it won the Grand Prix at the last Cannes Film Festival and has been a very well received movie amongst fans of foreign films and people who like decent movies. It’s a revenge movie; not your superficial martial arts fanboy-fuelled fantasy like Kill Bill, it’s a complex, grim, violent and provocative revenge movie which is bound to ruffle some feathers should it ever be released in the West (mainly due to the live octopus eating scene and some of it's themes).
Based on a Japanese Manga comic of the same name, Oldboy is the tale of a seemingly normal married man, Oh Dae-su. At the beginning of the movie we see Oh Dae-su being held in a police station for being drunk and disorderly, he’s later released, and shortly after telephoning his daughter to wish her a happy birthday, he disappears.
He then finds himself in some kind of makeshift prison, dressed up as a normal looking hotel-style room, with only a TV for company.
He’s incarcerated there for 15 years.
During his stay he sees news of his wife’s brutal murder and the subsequent news that he’s the prime suspect for her demise, and numerous famous pieces of world news pass by from 1988 to 2003. He attempts suicide on numerous occasions but is always rescued from the release of death by his mysterious captors, he’s constantly gassed and hypnotised, and his attempts at escaping move very slowly. He trains his body hard so that if he ever escapes he can give whoever is involved in this a good ass-whipping and he naturally goes a bit stircrazy whilst he’s trapped.
Then, for no apparent, after 15 years he’s suddenly wakes up released and given a mobile phone and a cash-filled wallet by a total stranger. Who kidnapped him and why?
Shortly after his release he meets a young woman, and with her help, he gradually begins to piece together some clues about his experience, and the man who held him captive for so long also contacts him via mobile phone.
After following more clues, Oh Dae-su eventually comes face to face with his captor, who proposes a game; if Oh Dae-su can find the reason for his imprisonment within 5 days, then he’ll kill himself, but if not, he’ll kill the woman Oh Dae-su has met and has began to fall in love with. And so begins a race against time for Oh Dae-su to unravel the mystery and discover some shocking secrets about his past and his future…
I’d read some good things about Oldboy, so thought I’d give it a look, and was suitably impressed; it’s visually grimy but beautifully shot, and features some great fight sequences (one of which is a one-shot take lasting around two-minutes with our hero beating the crap out of a corridor full of goons with a claw hammer), a nice torture scene, the aforementioned live octopus eating scene and a stunning performance from the main lead.
It’s a pretty impressive film; dark and violent but ultimately very stylish and thoughtful. If you’re one of the many who enjoy a different experience by dipping your toe into the foreign film market (as many people have done here by talking about Hero), then I’d give it a shot.
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You may have heard a little about this movie; it won the Grand Prix at the last Cannes Film Festival and has been a very well received movie amongst fans of foreign films and people who like decent movies. It’s a revenge movie; not your superficial martial arts fanboy-fuelled fantasy like Kill Bill, it’s a complex, grim, violent and provocative revenge movie which is bound to ruffle some feathers should it ever be released in the West (mainly due to the live octopus eating scene and some of it's themes).
Based on a Japanese Manga comic of the same name, Oldboy is the tale of a seemingly normal married man, Oh Dae-su. At the beginning of the movie we see Oh Dae-su being held in a police station for being drunk and disorderly, he’s later released, and shortly after telephoning his daughter to wish her a happy birthday, he disappears.
He then finds himself in some kind of makeshift prison, dressed up as a normal looking hotel-style room, with only a TV for company.
He’s incarcerated there for 15 years.
During his stay he sees news of his wife’s brutal murder and the subsequent news that he’s the prime suspect for her demise, and numerous famous pieces of world news pass by from 1988 to 2003. He attempts suicide on numerous occasions but is always rescued from the release of death by his mysterious captors, he’s constantly gassed and hypnotised, and his attempts at escaping move very slowly. He trains his body hard so that if he ever escapes he can give whoever is involved in this a good ass-whipping and he naturally goes a bit stircrazy whilst he’s trapped.
Then, for no apparent, after 15 years he’s suddenly wakes up released and given a mobile phone and a cash-filled wallet by a total stranger. Who kidnapped him and why?
Shortly after his release he meets a young woman, and with her help, he gradually begins to piece together some clues about his experience, and the man who held him captive for so long also contacts him via mobile phone.
After following more clues, Oh Dae-su eventually comes face to face with his captor, who proposes a game; if Oh Dae-su can find the reason for his imprisonment within 5 days, then he’ll kill himself, but if not, he’ll kill the woman Oh Dae-su has met and has began to fall in love with. And so begins a race against time for Oh Dae-su to unravel the mystery and discover some shocking secrets about his past and his future…
I’d read some good things about Oldboy, so thought I’d give it a look, and was suitably impressed; it’s visually grimy but beautifully shot, and features some great fight sequences (one of which is a one-shot take lasting around two-minutes with our hero beating the crap out of a corridor full of goons with a claw hammer), a nice torture scene, the aforementioned live octopus eating scene and a stunning performance from the main lead.
It’s a pretty impressive film; dark and violent but ultimately very stylish and thoughtful. If you’re one of the many who enjoy a different experience by dipping your toe into the foreign film market (as many people have done here by talking about Hero), then I’d give it a shot.
you can get from YesAsia.com [URL]http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003302965/pname-Old-Boy/code-k/version-all/section-videos/did-165/[/URL]
Or CD-WOW, [URL]http://www8.cd-wow.com/detail_results_2.php?product_code=12891[/URL]
That sounds like something that I'd be very interested in seeing, and if I ever had the money, I'd think about getting it as it sounds quite awesome.
It’s only recently I’ve been getting a bit more interested in foreign movies (aside from the many Jackie Chan films I love), mainly due to the complete cack that Hollywood is continually shovelling out at the present time. And so this quest for some decent films takes me to the East, to South Korea. To Oldboy.
You may have heard a little about this movie; it won the Grand Prix at the last Cannes Film Festival and has been a very well received movie amongst fans of foreign films and people who like decent movies. It’s a revenge movie; not your superficial martial arts fanboy-fuelled fantasy like Kill Bill, it’s a complex, grim, violent and provocative revenge movie which is bound to ruffle some feathers should it ever be released in the West (mainly due to the live octopus eating scene and some of it's themes).
Based on a Japanese Manga comic of the same name, Oldboy is the tale of a seemingly normal married man, Oh Dae-su. At the beginning of the movie we see Oh Dae-su being held in a police station for being drunk and disorderly, he’s later released, and shortly after telephoning his daughter to wish her a happy birthday, he disappears.
He then finds himself in some kind of makeshift prison, dressed up as a normal looking hotel-style room, with only a TV for company.
He’s incarcerated there for 15 years.
During his stay he sees news of his wife’s brutal murder and the subsequent news that he’s the prime suspect for her demise, and numerous famous pieces of world news pass by from 1988 to 2003. He attempts suicide on numerous occasions but is always rescued from the release of death by his mysterious captors, he’s constantly gassed and hypnotised, and his attempts at escaping move very slowly. He trains his body hard so that if he ever escapes he can give whoever is involved in this a good ass-whipping and he naturally goes a bit stircrazy whilst he’s trapped.
Then, for no apparent, after 15 years he’s suddenly wakes up released and given a mobile phone and a cash-filled wallet by a total stranger. Who kidnapped him and why?
Shortly after his release he meets a young woman, and with her help, he gradually begins to piece together some clues about his experience, and the man who held him captive for so long also contacts him via mobile phone.
After following more clues, Oh Dae-su eventually comes face to face with his captor, who proposes a game; if Oh Dae-su can find the reason for his imprisonment within 5 days, then he’ll kill himself, but if not, he’ll kill the woman Oh Dae-su has met and has began to fall in love with. And so begins a race against time for Oh Dae-su to unravel the mystery and discover some shocking secrets about his past and his future…
I’d read some good things about Oldboy, so thought I’d give it a look, and was suitably impressed; it’s visually grimy but beautifully shot, and features some great fight sequences (one of which is a one-shot take lasting around two-minutes with our hero beating the crap out of a corridor full of goons with a claw hammer), a nice torture scene, the aforementioned live octopus eating scene and a stunning performance from the main lead.
It’s a pretty impressive film; dark and violent but ultimately very stylish and thoughtful. If you’re one of the many who enjoy a different experience by dipping your toe into the foreign film market (as many people have done here by talking about Hero), then I’d give it a shot.
you can get from YesAsia.com [URL]http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003302965/pname-Old-Boy/code-k/version-all/section-videos/did-165/[/URL]
Or CD-WOW, [URL]http://www8.cd-wow.com/detail_results_2.php?product_code=12891[/URL]
You may have heard a little about this movie; it won the Grand Prix at the last Cannes Film Festival and has been a very well received movie amongst fans of foreign films and people who like decent movies. It’s a revenge movie; not your superficial martial arts fanboy-fuelled fantasy like Kill Bill, it’s a complex, grim, violent and provocative revenge movie which is bound to ruffle some feathers should it ever be released in the West (mainly due to the live octopus eating scene and some of it's themes).
Based on a Japanese Manga comic of the same name, Oldboy is the tale of a seemingly normal married man, Oh Dae-su. At the beginning of the movie we see Oh Dae-su being held in a police station for being drunk and disorderly, he’s later released, and shortly after telephoning his daughter to wish her a happy birthday, he disappears.
He then finds himself in some kind of makeshift prison, dressed up as a normal looking hotel-style room, with only a TV for company.
He’s incarcerated there for 15 years.
During his stay he sees news of his wife’s brutal murder and the subsequent news that he’s the prime suspect for her demise, and numerous famous pieces of world news pass by from 1988 to 2003. He attempts suicide on numerous occasions but is always rescued from the release of death by his mysterious captors, he’s constantly gassed and hypnotised, and his attempts at escaping move very slowly. He trains his body hard so that if he ever escapes he can give whoever is involved in this a good ass-whipping and he naturally goes a bit stircrazy whilst he’s trapped.
Then, for no apparent, after 15 years he’s suddenly wakes up released and given a mobile phone and a cash-filled wallet by a total stranger. Who kidnapped him and why?
Shortly after his release he meets a young woman, and with her help, he gradually begins to piece together some clues about his experience, and the man who held him captive for so long also contacts him via mobile phone.
After following more clues, Oh Dae-su eventually comes face to face with his captor, who proposes a game; if Oh Dae-su can find the reason for his imprisonment within 5 days, then he’ll kill himself, but if not, he’ll kill the woman Oh Dae-su has met and has began to fall in love with. And so begins a race against time for Oh Dae-su to unravel the mystery and discover some shocking secrets about his past and his future…
I’d read some good things about Oldboy, so thought I’d give it a look, and was suitably impressed; it’s visually grimy but beautifully shot, and features some great fight sequences (one of which is a one-shot take lasting around two-minutes with our hero beating the crap out of a corridor full of goons with a claw hammer), a nice torture scene, the aforementioned live octopus eating scene and a stunning performance from the main lead.
It’s a pretty impressive film; dark and violent but ultimately very stylish and thoughtful. If you’re one of the many who enjoy a different experience by dipping your toe into the foreign film market (as many people have done here by talking about Hero), then I’d give it a shot.
you can get from YesAsia.com [URL]http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003302965/pname-Old-Boy/code-k/version-all/section-videos/did-165/[/URL]
Or CD-WOW, [URL]http://www8.cd-wow.com/detail_results_2.php?product_code=12891[/URL]