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8.5 Fantastic
Rated by 23 people
  • 3 years ago
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    Having just seen it for the first time, this is one of the greatest movies ever made.
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  • 8 years ago
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    I realized this is just a retelling of oedipus
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … Ah yes, who could forget that one time Oedipus apparently got locked up in a room for several years, brain-washed, subsequently released, had intercourse with his own daughter and then cut off his tongue after stylishly executing some dudes in a hallway with a hammer.
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    • ded man
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      Editing … Well obviously its different, but the same morals are there and the fact that he had sex with his daughter (oedipus having sex with his mother) and him taking his tongue out so he cant speak (oedipus taking his eyes out so he cant see) is quite a striking similarity
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … None of that happened in the manga the movie is loosely based on. That reminds me, I bought the remake on dvd several months ago but somehow misplaced the dvd and can't seem to find it anymore. Bummer. Anyway, huge fan of the manga and movie. Top 10 ATF material, fo sure
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    • ded man
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      Editing … and the villain takes the place of the oracle or fate. Actually yes it isnt a retelling, but it mold that story into something with an even higher meaning.
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      Editing … I didnt even know there was a manga, i should hit that up
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  • Dr Eggnog wrote his opinion about Oldboy
    8 years ago
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    Is it bad that I found the octopus eating scene more disgusting than the twist?
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  • Michael Z wrote his opinion about Oldboy
    10 years ago
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    I think this is where Park Chan-Wook succeeded at what he initially set out to do with Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy's predecessor and first part of his (though admittedly quite arbitrary) "revenge"-trilogy - to leave you feeling shaken and mentally somehow bruised. However, with Oldboy I had the genuine suspicion that I'd just witnessed film history in the making; a suspicion which, needless to say, hasn't abated. In any case, Park's idol Hitchcock famously said that you should be able to watch a film without sound and/or dialogue and still find yourself able to follow the story and, having first seen Oldboy in Korean without subtitles, I can vouch that it passes this particular test.
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Alternative Names

Old Boy F
Oldboy d E
올드보이 o K
올드보이

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