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What if you were kidnapped and held hostage for 15 years without being told why? And then, as if that weren´t maddening enough, one day you are released without being told why. Don´t know why you were kidnapped and don´t know why you were released. All you know is that you are going to dedicate the rest of your life to finding out who was responsible and hunting them down. That´s the premise of the Korean film-yes, another Korean film-titled Oldboy. As I write this Oldboy is situated at number 133 on the IMDB Top 250 list, nestled nearly perfectly between Ran and Fargo. That would make one heck of a triple feature. Oldboy has been written about by many others elsewhere and rightly so. It is a film that you will never forget. And the really terrific thing is that there is almost a guarantee that it will never be remade by Hollywood because its ultimate revelations touch on topics still considered far too taboo by most Hollywood players to touch.

Oldboy is a film really quite impossible to write about in much depth because it is a movie whose greatness depends upon its revelations. I´m not talking cheating revelations like The Sixth Sense, I´m talking powerful and integrated revelations like The Crying Game or The English Patient. The premise is as described: a man is kidnapped and kept in a furnished room for fifteen years. He is fed, he has a bed, he is given paper to keep a journal. He is never told why he has been imprisoned, nor is he told why he was released. It is that release that is the real focus of the film. Because upon being released he comes to realize that he is still metaphorically imprisoned because his every move seems to be known by his captor. Nevertheless, he embarks upon an odyssey of revenge that also involves a young sushi bar chef with whom he falls in love. To say too much more would be to run the risk of taking away from you the sheer pleasure of watching this movie´s incendiary secrets slowly explode.

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