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My first movie review of c-wod.com

Every tuesday, my fellow film majors and I eat lunch together. Throughout the course of this meal we make fun of people like you, the kind of people that only watch Hollywood films. If you thought Fight Club was good, if you liked Forrest Gump or even if you think that Robert DeNiro is a good actor, we make fun of you. It is hilarious. It was during one of these meals where I was told to go watch Oldboy. [This story was entirely made up, we don’t eat lunch together, I was told about Oldboy by one of my film teachers. Fight Club still sucks, Robert DeNiro still sucks, and Forrest Gump was OK]

Oldboy is a Korean export, which came out in 2003. The premise of the movie is a man named Oh Dae – Su is imprisoned for 15 years, and then mysteriously let out. He then has to figure out why he was imprisoned over the course of 5 days. The film is brilliantly woven to show Oh Dae-Su balancing, love, revenge, wrath, and knowledge. Chan-wook Park presents this film and a very flashy, and flamboyant manner. While artists like Darren Aronofsky can not balance showmanship and narration, Park achieves this feat throughout the film. The impressive camera work only adds to the progression of the story. While I am not normally a fan of fight sequences, Park films them in a manner that keeps them interesting. For instance a corridor fight between Oh Dae-Su and thugs, which is drawn out over the course of only one shot. The ending of this film will leave you quite disturbed as well. Oldboy gets a 9 out of 10. [Please note that in order to receive a 10, a film has to be as good as Magnolia. Receiving a 10 is nearly impossible]

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