Unconventional Love Story

Rating: 10/10 (23 October 2006)

The love story, it seems, will continue to be told as long as we can tell it and in as many ways as we want. This is why OLDBOY is so refreshing; it takes liberty with as many cinematic elements it can hold from across the spectrum of action, drama and comedy without presenting another typified movie. Conservatives beware, your social mores are not taken into consideration here (nor should they). What really got my attention were the impressively long shots that intensified the action on screen by being in real time; no quick cut cheats here. Without giving away the plot (because I really hate when someone can't tell me about a movie without giving me a synopsis of the thing), OLDBOY is quite simply one of those contemporary movies that puts almost everything I've seen to shame. Imagine America's best movie-making innovators and take away the restrictions that our tight-ass MPAA place on them...you would get films like these; actual pieces of art.