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If you’re in the mood for a great thriller and can’t decide what to watch, put Oldboy on your movie downloads queue. The film made a big splash at Cannes some years back, but lost out on the top prize to Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Interestingly, Oldboy, despite only taking second place, is the one people are still watching, as Moore’s doc has become somewhat dated with a new president in office.

The story follows Oh Daesu, a man who simply disappears from the street one night. He wakes up in a room that’s half prison cell half motel room. He’s trapped here for fifteen years, and he spends his time training his body and mind in order to take revenge on whoever’s responsible for putting him here. He attempts to use a metal chopstick to carve through the wall and escape to freedom, and what happens from there is certainly an unpredictable story as far as thrillers go.

The film is really an interesting look into the concept of revenge. The movie is full of questions. Who’s really taking revenge on whom? Is Oh Daesu really the hero of the film? The theme of revenge saturates the film and all of its characters, and while the film begins as standard action revenge fare, it quickly develops into something deeper and far less predictable.

Daesu is a great revenge character. He’s driven only by his anger and nothing else. We’ve all seen Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood shoot badguys, but Daesu doesn’t stop at just shooting badguys. He will hurt anyone who stands between him and revenge. He’s truly willing to go all the way to see to it that revenge is carried out.

Director Chan Wook Park created this film after Sympathy for Mister Vengeance, and followed it up with Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, forming a “revenge trilogy”. OLDBOY is probably the best of the three films, but the other two are certainly worth a watch if you want to see what else Mister Chan Wook Park is capable of.

Interestingly, Chan Wook Park wrote the entire screenplay in only two days, having written the outline in “a single cigarette”, he says. He took a few weeks on a second draft, but it’s interesting to know that it only took two days to get the first draft out, considering how complex and twisted the film is, while still making perfect sense when you have all the facts.

If you think it’s just another action flick or thriller, it really isn’t. You haven’t seen a movie quite like this.

Chan Wook Park recently came out with a vampire film, and this wasn’t his debut, but it was certainly the film that put him on the world cinematic map. Quentin Tarantino considers it one of the greatest films of the last twenty years, and you might just find yourself agreeing.

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