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I enjoy watching movies with advertised surprise endings, not attempting to guess the twist beforehand so that it can have maximum impact. Here, I vaguely suspected the ending about halfway through, enough to take away the bottomless feeling I distinctly remember from having in The Sixth Sense, which is too bad. That doesn’t say anything bad about the movie, and I just mention it to justify my not talking at all about the plot of Oldboy. I cherish surprises, and so should you. Besides, if you want to be spoiled, there are plenty of places online for that.\nOldboy captured me both by the shocking intensity and realism of its violence, both physical and emotional, and it’s toying with the balance between the cool aspect of the martial arts tradition, and the dark and disturbing reality of violence. Contrary to what I’ve read elsewhere, though Oldboys perfect aesthetic design and it’s fragmented storytelling might suggest it, this is not a postmodern play on popculture themes in manner seemingly defined by Tarantino’s early works (as I’ve found said in multiple places), but rather a monumental tragedy, masterfully told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"