WATCH PARTY: Oldboy (2005) Park Chan-Wook @ Mary Pretlow Library

The people have been asking for it. I love this movie.

In the second big room to the right of the entrance, Meeting Room 2.

RUNTIME: 120 minutes. Rated R, age 18+. Watch the trailer here.

SYNOPSIS: Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he's abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning.

BLURBS:
"Shakespearean in its violence, Oldboy also calls up nightmare images of spiritual and physical isolation that are worthy of Samuel Beckett or Dostoyevsky." - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

"Oldboy is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare." - Roger Ebert

"Full of insanely grand passions, bloodthirsty violence and jet black comedy, it's a sadistic masterpiece that confirms Korea's current status as producer of some of the world's most exciting cinema." - Jamie Russell, *BBC.com*