#Oldboy

[moonlightsdream]

Oldboy 올드보이 (2003) — dir. Park Chan Wook

[kdramaspace]

POTW #99: Pick an iconic film director (as voted by our members and followers)

Park Chan Wook - Oldboy (2003), Lady Vengeance (2005), The Handmaiden (2016), Decision to Leave (2022)

[old-dramas]

Oldboy (2003) || Dir. Park Chan Wook

[bydlon]

Oldboy

[sscarletvenus]

decision to leave by park chanwook is such an insane film like what if. what if you loved someone so much that you would doom yourself over and over and over again at every turn of your life just to continue haunting them, just to become their deepest guilt and failure and infatuation and defeat, just to ultimately kill yourself and become an unforgettable mystery instead because memory is a monster and destruction is the gentlest and also the only form of love you both know. what would happen if the mountain loved the sea and tried to become the sea because of its love? it would collapse. maybe to love someone is to simply watch them be happy in the mundane. maybe to love is to watch them scour the ebbing and surging tides for a trace of you after you're long gone. maybe to love someone is to teach them to fall asleep to the sound of your breathing and then leave forever while they remain.

[userpeggycarter]

OLDBOY (2003) —

dir. Park Chan-wook.

[roseillith]

Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook

[fangerine]

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."

OLDBOY (2003) dir. Park Chan-Wook

[feydpauls]

"Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions."

YOO JI-TAE as LEE WOO-JIN in OLDBOY (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook

[tank-grrrl]

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[watchmorecinema]

Why you should watch foreign films.

They're good. Bong Joon Ho (director of Parasite) says it best.

Movies are a great way to experience other perspectives and cultures. Foreign films are made differently from films you're used to. The style, the editing, the way plots unfold, it's all going to be different in interesting ways. Some examples:

Giallo films (Italian) might have nonsensical plots but they're more focused on emotion and spectacle. You're Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have The Key might be a mess of a story but it's a wild ride of the type you don't find in America.

Japan has a lot of movies about the horrors of nuclear war and proliferation. Godzilla, Akira and Grave of the Fireflies could not have been made in America. When America makes a movie about nukes we get Oppenheimer, a movie about the people who made the bomb and not the people that suffered under it.

Korea has some amazing thrillers like Oldboy and Memoirs of a Murderer. America remade Oldboy and it was not nearly as good.

These are all broad strokes of course, but the point is that other countries have a lot to offer and you're missing out on so much if you're scared off by subtitles. The way I figure is that 95% of the world's population doesn't live in America, so why assume 100% of good movies come from there?

[moonlightsdream]

FILMS in 2024: 28 | Oldboy 올드보이 (2003) — dir. Park Chan Wook

[dailyworldcinema]

OLDBOY (2003) —

dir. Park Chan-wook.

[old-dramas]

Oldboy (2003) || Dir. Park Chan Wook

[khaoray]

2024 WATCHLIST

Be it a grain of sand or a rock: in water they sink the same. Oldboy, south korea (2003)

[chaossmith2]

Promised myself I'd do studies from this film eventually