My partner and I went to the museum after hours and wouldn’t you know it, they were playing Oldboy in a little connected cinema. It’s a 20th anniversary NEON rerelease currently circulating in theaters.
The movie holds up — violent without much focus on action spectacle, instead spending its runtime inflicting maximum psychic damage on the protag in order to remind us what it is to be human. It’s a classic for a reason, and I should really get around to seeing more Park Chan-wook films.
