Year: 2004 Length: 120
Origin: South Korea
Color: C
Genre: Action , Thriller
From: comic Nobuaki Minegishi
Production: Young Joo Suh for Show East, Eggfilms
Prohibited: No
Director: Park Chan-Wook
Old Boy tells the story of Oh Dae-Su, an ordinary man who lives with his wife and daughter.
One day in 1988 he was abducted for no apparent reason, and confined in an apartment. Only a television to keep him company that announced the death of his wife ... and he is the only suspect! The shock that overwhelms him is immense, from the moment they manage to get out of his prison, he will think only in revenge.
Yes, I admit, the Cameron toy I'm tired. It is so "plastic" in my heart has already left the time it has found. Also because all that budget, and those expectations quell'hype die before the movie as a pearl in I am going to talk to you.
We are faced with a film that really made me cry out to the masterpiece.
When he came out, I was not very motivated to watch it. Of course, having won the Grand Prix of the Jury Prize at Cannes, not cheap, especially if the president was a Tarantino, but despite this, not one that you get the money.
Then I saw him and abandoned, perhaps because of my immature film culture, but recently I have recovered and look at them in more "adult", well, it proved quite different.
Old Boy is a film angry, bloody and noir. It is an uncompromising film that takes the audience on tenterhooks until the last. And the last part of a film plot twist that left me with his mouth open for ten minutes abundant.
One of those films that you do not expect these to be until you look at it. A pearl, a delicate thoughts and memories, bitterness and anger.
Claustrophobic beyond all limits, along with good reach madness Oh Dae-Su, with no escape. It will try several times greasy, and many times we happen to be in suspense about his fate. Each new scene that takes place in that apartment gives us a new question that makes us think, "Why?".
The story is original and although it from a balloon, is expanded and is given an answer: the implication that it will take incredible.
A film that leaves stucco, made with only the pretense of making pure art, and not with the purpose of base money. A piece that copyright should not be run, along with other parts of the trilogy, "Revenge" (Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance 2002, 2005).
