Old Boy

After work today, I did what I like to do after work some days, I went and saw me a movie. This one was a Korean movie called Old Boy. It was a very good movie. Since when did these Koreans know how to make a good goddam movie, you ask? Yes, I'd like to know that, too. But let's get on with it, shall we?
OK here is the situation: Man is drunk and makes damn fool of himself and gets hauled in to cop shop, continues to make damn fool of self and pisses in the corner and yells a lot, friend comes to bail him out but somehow drunken man gets abducted and imprisoned in a hotel room for 15 YEARS. Locked in, he can't get out, and he's only got a TV, a small one, not a nice widescreen one, and they only feed him fried dumplings for every meal. He can't get out (although he tries to tunnel out with a chopstick) so he practices shadow boxing and gets pretty damn good at it, makes his fists hard by punching the wall, and watches endless TV, and grows a pretty wild looking haircut, great mad insane excellent haircut. Then after 15 years are up whoever locked him up there lets him out. Not hard to understand, he is now boiling with furious hatred at whoever locked him up for so long, for no apparent reason, he aims to get REVENGE, it's time for some MASSIVE PAYBACK. Then a guy reveals himself as the one who locked him up, but tells him he did it for a damn good reason, and if he doesn't think hard about his entire life (pre-lockup) and find the answer in two days (July 5) then the guy is gonna go and kill every woman that he has ever loved, or will love, I guess.
Well, that's all I can write about the story, without giving some big shit away, so I'll write some other various stuff about it...
I don't mind subtitled movies at all, I'm coordinated enough to be able to look up and down and read and see what's happening at the same time, but when the subtitles are plain white like in this movie, it's enough to make a fellow jump out of his seat, raging and screaming obscenities like a Tourette's dude in a long post office queue. Could there be many things more INFURIATING than white subtitles presented on a white background? No, not many things, I'll bet.
There is a live octopus-eating scene in this movie. How many movies have you seen with somebody eating a live animal? Not many, I'll bet. Have you seen a man bite the head off a foot-long octopus and cram its writhing tentacles into his chewing mouth with one tentacle trying to pull his nose off? If you watch this movie, you will see it.
This movie has one of the most GODDAM AMAZING fight scenes I have ever seen. Our man goes up against a group of perhaps twenty weapon-wielding thugs in a narrow corridor. Our man is armed only with a claw hammer. The style and superior choreography of this scene would make John 'Hard-Boiled' Woo shed a tear of enormous pride.
The music is very good, a classical type music with simple, strident melodic progressions. The music was, indeed, excellent and perfect.
The acting was superb, so was the dialogue, and the movie looked great.
The movie Old Boy was a very good movie I can recommend, but only if you have a strong stomach. For the first time I sat right up in the back row and during a few scenes I saw just about every second head spin in repulsion and jam backwards and firmly into the head cushion. Aside from that, the audience was well-behaved.