You don't know why this sh#t happened. More importantly the main character, Dae-Su is totally in the dark about it as well. He used to be a happy go lucky guy with a wife, a little daughter, a job and a few friends who you might find at a downtown bar on a Friday after work. Who would want to put him in prison for 15 years, feed him, clothe him, shave him - all this costs money. The film doesn't let the protagonist languish in prison for long, it quickly pans over the decade and a half in half hour and the rest is tightly gripping drama that you wouldn't see coming.
Very interesting story and an interesting movie. The fight scenes, the comedic aspect of those, reminds of Takeshi Kitano's movies. Definitely worth a watch.
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yeah...i think Sanjay Dutt's Zinda was lifted from this one....;-)
Yeah, had seen Zinda a long while back. It looked good for an Indian movie and 'sounded' good too. I remember thinking then that it might have been copied from some Asian movie, but it didn't really click in my mind while watching OldBoy, until I saw your comment.
The premise on which OldBoy is built is hard to 'Indianize', although Sanjay Gupta copied everything else to the T.
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