Unexpected total involvement

Rating: 10/10 (1 August 2004)

I have, only recently, become appreciative of Korean films (another fine one is "Memories of Murder") and, when I saw a dvd available for "Oldboy" and had read of its recent awards, I bought the SE set... The quirky beginning irritated me, but I soon got into the mood of the film and no holds were barred in my total attention to every frame of the movie. It is a masterpiece of directing and editing. Every frame either holds relevance to a previous point of the film or relevance to what will come later on. I was so impressed that I have also purchased the director's previous film, "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance" and I look forward to watching that dvd soon.