Old Boy

Say what you want about the Virginia Tech crazy, he had some taste when it came to Korean cinema.

This is a movie that requires a big spoiler alert. It should be watched, but the horror and revulsion, and triumph and pathos, won't be the same if you have any previous knowlege about anything that goes down.

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It is a perfect Greek tragedy. It has all the impeccable symmetry of Sophocles' Oedipus, but with no reservations in the gross-out factor; at least Oedipus blinded himself offstage. Also, the villain could have used some work. I think they were going for psychopath when they developed him, but then they put him in this somewhat plausible revenge quest, so that his motivations became very confused, and ceased to make a whole lot of sense.