After being held in a room and tortured for 15 years, Dae-Su is released into the world with new clothes, money, and a cellphone, only to learn he must discover who his captor was and why he was held for 15 years. To further complicate things, he falls in love with a girl, which turned out to be part of the plan all along.
To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of East-Asian cinema however I found Oldboy to be very intense, thrilling, mysterious and it definitely kept me on the edge of my seat wanting to unravel the plot.
The end did leave me a little... confused. The revenge sought didn't seem quite justified to me so it made all the previous action seem much overdone. Regardless, I definitely enjoyed watching the film and there was a lot of good philosophical pondering thrown into the mix.
RB
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