"Oldboy" - The Most Disturbing Plot Twist in Cinema History

We thought Oldboy was a South Korean action film… and then the plot twist happened. We break down why this movie has the most evil villain either of us has ever seen in our entire lives and how he dedicated his entire existence to the darkest revenge possible over something any teenager could have done. We get into the hallway fight scene, one of the most iconic in cinema history, filmed in a single unbroken shot that took three full days and seventeen attempts to get right. And we give our honest reaction to a film so heavy that one of us had to go stand in the backyard in the sun just to feel something normal again afterwards.

Chapters:

00:00 Reaction & recap

20:35 The messages relevance today

27:15 Did he forget at the end?

38:13 The most iconic fight scene ever filmed

49:53 True dedication to the character

54:08 How Tarantino made this movie internationally famous

56:31 The kinds of movies Park Chan Wook wants to make

1:00:29 A perfectly made movie

1:04:44 Our official ranking & final thoughts