I thought almost exactly the same and also arrived at 7/10 for my IMDB vote. The final twist and reveal was definitely shocking, but I found it heavy-handed, absurd, and the bread crumbs didn't seem there all along throughout the film to make it a particularly clever twist. The fight scene was definitely one of the coolest fight scenes I've seen and that was the most memorable part for me. My absolute favorite from Park Chan-wook is Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. That one is also very edgy, very shocking, but I found the writing very clever and far less heavy-handed in the way it revolves around a deaf-mute character. It's rather brilliantly tragic at times in the way it deals with the deafness of the protag.
l take. there’s a lot of thematic stuff that it seems you didn’t pick up on that ties the story together. i understand that oldboy is definitely not for everyone but it does what it sets out to do absolutely flawlessly.
I thought almost exactly the same and also arrived at 7/10 for my IMDB vote. The final twist and reveal was definitely shocking, but I found it heavy-handed, absurd, and the bread crumbs didn't seem there all along throughout the film to make it a particularly clever twist. The fight scene was definitely one of the coolest fight scenes I've seen and that was the most memorable part for me.
My absolute favorite from Park Chan-wook is Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. That one is also very edgy, very shocking, but I found the writing very clever and far less heavy-handed in the way it revolves around a deaf-mute character. It's rather brilliantly tragic at times in the way it deals with the deafness of the protag.
l take. there’s a lot of thematic stuff that it seems you didn’t pick up on that ties the story together. i understand that oldboy is definitely not for everyone but it does what it sets out to do absolutely flawlessly.
That's totally fair. If I missed out on some deep themes, I might give it another watch after some research
The villians motivation to lock him up is crazy
Da Su's rumor led to Woo jins sisters suicide, that's a really heartbreaking thing. Incest or not.
You should make a review of a movie called migration
I'll hop on it👊