just saw Oldboy - SPOILERS!
06-09-06, 04:46 PM
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just saw Oldboy - SPOILERS!
SPOILERS AHOY! READ NO FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN OLDBOY!
Just saw Oldboy for the first time. Man, what a f'ed-up movie. Compelling, well made, but f'ed up. The movie has not one, but two instances of incest central to the plot! I haven't felt this disturbed by a flick since Requiem for a Dream.
A man is tortured for fifteen years and tricked into banging his daughter all because he looked in the wrong window in high school. Yeesh. By the end, when our protagonist has been reduced to a simpering, tounge-less subhuman at the feet of the man who ruined his life, I thought the movie was done with him.
But no.
Handed a remote he (and we) believe will stop the heart of his tormentor, he hesitates, then presses the button. Another twist of the knife comes when the remote instead plays a recording of the man banging his kid. It also reminded me of Fincher's "The Game". Just when you think it's over...
Anyway, I'm not sure I need to see it agin, but it was fascinating, and I want to know what my fellow movie fans thought.
If you have a spare minute or two, Ebert's review is quite good: clicky
Just saw Oldboy for the first time. Man, what a f'ed-up movie. Compelling, well made, but f'ed up. The movie has not one, but two instances of incest central to the plot! I haven't felt this disturbed by a flick since Requiem for a Dream.
A man is tortured for fifteen years and tricked into banging his daughter all because he looked in the wrong window in high school. Yeesh. By the end, when our protagonist has been reduced to a simpering, tounge-less subhuman at the feet of the man who ruined his life, I thought the movie was done with him.
But no.
Handed a remote he (and we) believe will stop the heart of his tormentor, he hesitates, then presses the button. Another twist of the knife comes when the remote instead plays a recording of the man banging his kid. It also reminded me of Fincher's "The Game". Just when you think it's over...
Anyway, I'm not sure I need to see it agin, but it was fascinating, and I want to know what my fellow movie fans thought.
If you have a spare minute or two, Ebert's review is quite good: clicky
06-09-06, 06:03 PM
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spoiler blocks work well too 
The Ebert review is odd to me, I read it when it first came out and was surprised that he liked it so much. At Cannes, he had an incredibly negative write up about it (namely on how the violence didn't fit the crime), and yet wound up giving it 4 stars when it was actually released 12 months later.
Either he was swayed by it's Tarantino Seal of Approval, or he got that wonderful after effect, of feeling horrible the next morning realizing just how wrong and somehow fitting it was.
The Ebert review is odd to me, I read it when it first came out and was surprised that he liked it so much. At Cannes, he had an incredibly negative write up about it (namely on how the violence didn't fit the crime), and yet wound up giving it 4 stars when it was actually released 12 months later.
Either he was swayed by it's Tarantino Seal of Approval, or he got that wonderful after effect, of feeling horrible the next morning realizing just how wrong and somehow fitting it was.
06-09-06, 08:15 PM
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it's funny we've never had a thread on this, nuf said...
