OLDBOY
With
Choi
Min-sik,
Yu
Ji-tae,
Hye-jeong
Kang,
Dae-han
Ji,
Dal-su
Oh
Directed
by
Chan-wook
Park
Derived
from
Nobuaki
Minegishi’s
comic,
this
intense
South
Korean
offering
had
several
screenwriters,
including
Garon
Tsuchiya
and
Jo-yun
Hwang,
and
is
part
of
director
Chan-wook
Park’s
vengeance
trilogy
which
consists
of
Sympathy
for
Mr.
Vengeance,
Oldboy,
and
Sympathy
for
Lady
Vengeance.
Oldboy
opens
quite
abruptly
with
the
capture
of
Oh
Dae-su,
a
seemingly
random
man
who
is
drunk
in
streets
(on
his
daughter’s
birthday).
He
is
held
prisoner
for
15
years
with
no
explanation.
On
his
release
he
is
contacted
by
Woo-jin
who
says
he’s
the
man
rtesponsible
for
his
capture,
and
he
has
to
find
out
who
he
is.
Oh
Dae-su’s
mind
is
a
wreck
and
he
befriends
a
young
girl,
Mi-do,
who
works
in
a
restaurant.
As
he
tries
to
rewire
himself,
his
captor
turns
his
life
into
a
further
living
hell.
Saying
too
much
about
the
details
would
simply
spoil
this
amazing
movie
which
pulls
very
few
punches
as
the
viewer
is
drawn
into
this
man’s
anguish
and
the
violence
resulting
from
the
quest
to
get
the
truth.
Quentin
Tarantino
pushed
for
Oldboy
to
get
the
Palme
D’Or
at
Cannes
2004,
but
it
got
the
2nd
best
thing,
the
Grand
Jury
Prize.
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