OLDBOY - the movie

Dae Su Oh: 

"Laugh and the world laughs with you,

weep and you weep alone."

I stumble onto the movie OLDBOY by Chan-wook Park this very late evening, in fact it is very late for me to be able to see everything clearly now after finish the piece. It is so strikingly amazing in a very disturbing disgusting way.

To be upfront usually I don't like to watch movie that is bloody and extreme violent, as well I don't like to see vivid - very real acting sex scene; but under the spell of Chan-wook Park makes part of me to go through all it and to answer the question it was raised to be stupid to me: "Why on Earth this man got locked up for a long long time for 15 years...and then release...?!"

You would never ever stop gripping your shirt, or blanket (in my case) or anything nearby just to give a hold of what going on in the movie. As a viewer you will keep asking question and trying to feed it with what you see and receive information as the director giving you; it is not any individual character in the movie but a whole wheel of psychology, and yet in moments of it you will feel the sympathy - the trigger to your owe memory and experiences. It brought you to the point of loving the characters - even though he is the beast but not so much cause in a way you feel like he deserve it.

In regular drama, there will be and always be a bad and a good guy; I advice you not to watch this movie if you really into those kind and can't except a real-life on a screen. Life is not pink, and 
so we all know it; the beauty is not to be pretty - but to be real...if you can't enjoy life as it is, you won't enjoy this movie. What makes us human is that we can cry and face the bad, that is us - no ever near to be perfect; and for some do things different then others, then to live with it and go through it. Yet it is a happy ending for OLDBOY but without all he had been through, he was just an annoying - talkative drunk guy.

This is a relatively old movie (2003) but I'm appreciated that I watched now not right after it released - I would have been flipped out and don't get any point of it...besides judging it as brutal and a sick movie.

Again I don't know much about movie, I just want to share my thought on this very very brilliant movie. Any point I raised in here - if yet not true, please let's me know.

Chan-wook Park, thank you for your work!


OLD BOY official trailer



-you can watch on youtube or netflix instant or any other rental brand.
recommended Korean speaking with Eng subtitle to reserve the original acting.