Anthony Giogaia
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Anthony Giogaia: Film Enthusiast
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Looking Back at Chan-wook Park’s 'Oldboy'
My favorite film of all time is Chan-wook Park’s Oldboy. The film defines the morality of vengeance as vile, leaving someone with nothing but despair and emptiness. Oh Dae-su (Min-sik Choi) is a man obsessed with vengeance like a psychedelic drug. He is imprisoned with nothing but food, clothing, and television for 15 years. “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone,” he says to himself. Suicide is an option, but vengeance is more important to him. Dae-su makes a list of the men and women he has caused harm to in the past realizing he himself is a sinner. He shadow-boxes rough walls until his hands are numb and knuckles bleed. His television is his source of time, entertainment, education, friendship, and religion. This is where Dae-su learns his wife has been murdered and he is the primary suspect. Escape and he is a wanted man. “Who could have done this to such a man?” I asked myself at this point of the film. These are my favorite moments of Oldboy.
By Anthony Giogaia6 years ago in Geeks