How would you feel if you were out walking the city streets one rainy evening, blacked out drunk, puking all over yourself, and sleeping in the gutter?
How would you feel if you woke up the next morning in a hotel room, all cleaned up, dry clothes in the bureau for you, and no clue how you got there?
Now, how would you feel if for the next twenty years of your life you couldn’t find a way to get out of that hotel room? Would you like it? Yes? Well then I got a movie for you.
“Oldboy” is a remake of the wildly popular 2003 South Korean film of the same name. (“Oldeuboi”).
It tells the story of Joe Doucette, (Josh Brolin) an advertising executive who has a sweet tooth for booze and women. He is divorced and is the father of a three year old girl. A girl he doesn’t spend nearly enough time with. Continue reading Oldboy