Oldboy 2003 review / Oldeuboi film review
Oldboy (2003, South Korea)
Businessman Dae-su Oh is not a great father, he gets arrested for being drunk in public and spends the night in the cell. Because of what he missed his daughter’s fourth birthday. His friend collects him, but Dae-su never reaches his home. He wakes up in a sealed room. There are only two things that link him to the world outside - the pet door through which someone provides him with the food and a television set. From news Dae-su learns that he has been framed for his wife’s murder, but stuck in this prison there is nothing he can do about it. As years pass, Dae-su grows deranged from solitude and attempts suicide, but whoever keeps him locked, saves his life. After 15 years locked in a room, Dae-su is sedated and dropped atop of a building. Now he is after revenge and finally finding out who and why kept him locked for such a long time without any explanation.
Oldboy is a gloomy and brutally realistic movie which mixes bits of a thriller, martial arts movie, mystery and unusual story. The way the plot is being revealed, using a minimalistic manner, just like the protagonist, we have no clue where this journey into the dark side of human nature will take us, but it is hard not to get involved in the story from the very beginning. Great performance from the main cast, interesting story and the elusive, yet dark mystery that looming over the world we see, keep Oldboy among movies that most people never forget.
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