Film · 2003 · Mystery thriller
Oldboy
Directed by Park Chan-wook
2003
South Korea
★ 7.8 editorial score
Korean cinema broke through in the West on the strength of this: fifteen years locked in a room without explanation, and a corridor fight staged in one take.
“In its sexuality and violence, this is the kind of movie that can no longer easily be made in the United States...But content does not make a movie good or bad -- it is merely what it is about. "Oldboy" is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare.”
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