Sunday, January 28, 2007

Laugh and the world laughs at you, weep and you'll weep alone.

I saw Oldboy yesterday at the DC Anime club. The plot: an average Korean salaryman after being detained at a police station and picked up by his friend suddenly got kidnapped and imprisoned in a hotel like prison for 15 years. He later gets released with clothes suddenly on him. Thus he's on a quest to find out why he was abducted in the first place.

The film is actually a psychological thriller which at time does not make any sense until later on. My favorite scene: The hammer brawl where the protagonist managed to fight a 15 man gang with just a hammer. This does not include the punchline fight where he manages to take out another group in all places...the elevator.
It's a nice film, not to mention my first Korean film I have seen in the first time. If you can get this film, buy it.

One fact from the film: Imaginary training can and can't prepare you for the real world.

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