Old Boy- Chan-wook Park

So I just watched "Old Boy"....
I'm quite disturbed
It's a 2003 Korean film and is very...different..
It got a 8.4/10 on IMDB and received a few awards and it is also number 102 on IMDB's top 250 movies list. So with that in mind I was expecting some pretty great things..
It was nothing like I expected.
I suggest if you would like to watch it to stop reading this right now because I'm probably going to spoil it for you.

So according to IMDB Old Boy is a about "After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days."

This is an accurate summary but it gets so much more fucked up than that. Basically this man (Dae-Su) is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, he is told that his wife is dead (he has been framed for murder) and that his daughter has been supposedly fostered out in Sweden.

Turns out that his daughter hasn't been in Sweden, the young woman that he has met and has been having sex with is actually his daughter.
So that's rather fucked up..
The kidnapper (Woo-Jin) is doing this because when Dae-Su was younger he caught Woo-jin having sex with his sister( Woo-Jin's own sister)......Incest is quite a clear theme..

So you find this out towards the end of the film and you're left feeling extremely weird. Like you don't know how you should feel about it..

There were some disturbing scenes like when Dae-Su cuts off his own tongue or when he eats a live octopus.

It was a pretty good film except for the obvious..

I litrally just watched it, so maybe I'm not the right mind-set to write about it.
I just feel weird about it, it's screwed up.

The begining

My life as a film freak.
I love movies, they are actually my entire life. Reluctantly I had to sell some of my films from my collection because I was so broke from buying movies..

I watch them all the time. Lately I've became quite a critic.

Hopefully I'll be updating this with the latest films I've seen and my thoughts on them. I like most films and will watch practically anything.

Gay films

I'm going through a gay-film stage at the moment, I find them quite cute.

Recently I've watched:

"Beautiful Thing"- Hettie MacDonald.
After reading a couple of "best gay coming of age films" lists I saw that beautiful was mentioned quite a few times. So I wrote on my list of movies to watch (it's quite a long list). I checked it out on Rotten Tomatoes, it had a 90% rating so I was expecting some great things. Overall I really liked it, there's something about young British teenagers trying to find out their sexuality that really makes a great movies.

Another gay one I watched was "Watercolors"- David Oliveras.
I didn't really have any expectations for this film, the end result of it was bad dialogue mixed with a couple of awkward scenes and a few off acting moment. The actually story was quite cute but it could have been pulled off a lot better but with that said it could have been done a lot worse.

(Watercolors)

I watched a gay short film, "A little bit of Comfort"
It's french so you have to watch it with subtitles. It's quite graphic in comparison to the other films. There's more boy on boy action and it is way more sex based. Still it was cute and had a some-what good story line.

Lastly I watched "Prayers for Bobby"- Russell Mulcahy
I thought this movie was utterly amazing. It's based on a true story and it just makes you wanna cry. It's based around the life of a gay boy- Bobby who is apart of an extremely religious family, who view homosexuality as a sin. He struggles with coming out to his parents and being forced into being "cured". This film gives the true understanding of being gay and christian. It shows you that it is not a sin to be gay and that it accepted by god and nothing to be a shamed of.

(Still from Prayers for Bobby)

I still have more Gay films on my list to watch
including:

• Shelter
• The curiosity of Chance
• Latter Days
• Sugar
• The most unfabulous social life of Ethan Green