Oldboy
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."
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There is no criticism one can make about this film that is not just malarky. So let me just list everything that makes this film perfect. Oldboy is a film about a man who is let out of a 15 year prison sentence with no knowledge of why he was imprisoned or where to go now. Through this journey of 5 days we are given the best single shot action sequence I have ever seen, the most brutal plot twist ever in film, and the pure emotion of vengeance. At a point in the film there is a mention of the count of monte cristo, the best revenge story ever put to paper, and after watching this film in theaters I can now compare the two as Oldboy is the best revenge story ever put to film. The soundtrack is stunning classical crescendos that exemplify exactly what emotions are being felt, the camerawork is so perfect finding every angle, mirror, window to shoot our character from, and that does not even include the best and most creative transitions in between scenes and characters I have ever seen. There are two times in the film where the past and present version of a character switches in an out to show the audience a memory and it is just done to perfection. The ending will blow your mind and shoot chills down ur spine and have you leave the film reflecting on everything you just experienced and questioning every moment in your life in which you could have been slightly more aware. There are very few movies I have and will ever consider perfect but Oldboy almost effortlessly joins that list.
100/100