"He who makes a beast of Himself, rids himself of the pain of being a Man" Samuel Johnson

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2017)

For those of you who thinks Oldboy is boring, you are dead inside. And I envy you the absence.
For those who it tore inside of and dwells within you, Hold it close, it is a rare thing when Art becomes a visceral, palpable entity.
From the agonizing plot counterpointed by the glorious cinematography. The beautiful music sliding over the cesspool of imagery. The whole film is a contradiction. And one that shows the horror and madness of living in the world with sentience and intellect.
Enough has been said if the violence and the vengeance of Oldboy. The power here lies with the horrifying inevitability of this Man's journey. His existence after release is the ultimate Existential voyage of all of us.
We do because what other choice do we have? By the ending in the white, whispering snowscape, the realisation that his and our only hope for happiness is to forget. To purge the horrors of what brought us to this point and just keep grinning.
This film touches me in a way that is almost impossible to communicate but I'm glad that Art like this is in the World for the people who need it and can absorb it.