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What do I want to write about this $h!znit?
Gimme hypnosis so I can forget this $h+.
Watch OB with someone you love. You'll come out of it closer together due to the trauma-bonding.
I don't want to forget the performances, though. The acting is insanely good. The script is just insane. OB is a 2003 2hr release that is rated 83/94 on RT, and 8.3 on IMDB and MDL. I need to watch it another time or two to pick up on the details and connections, but I'm not sure I can handleit. Maybe I'll just read about it.
We'll see a person fly off of a bridge and another off of a building. We all want to fly away from our problems. Dae-su's wings are clipped in the opening moments - they were a present for his daughter. He had just made a call when everything went black. When he wakes up, he's imprisoned. He's not in a jail cell. He's in a seedy motel room and he has no clue where. Everyday he's fed the same dumplings from (he presumes) a nearby restaurant. No one ever talks to him or gives him any answers. This goes on for years. More than a dozen of them.
OB is the Anti-Matrix. He's in a physical prison and he's very aware of what's going on. Like The Matrix, there's lots of head games in play, but OB is the opposite of hi-tech. When Dae-su escapes, his family is gone. He decides to get revenge on his jailers. Mido serves him one of his first dinners as a free man. She puts her cold hands on his and promises to help.
They start with the dumplings. They methodically eat dumplings at new restaurants daily. Dae-su will know the taste of what he was fed for 15 years, without question. Once he narrows down the restaurant he's able to investigate the area for the building that had become his prison. His fists are hardened from years of punching the wall. So, when he finds his captors, can he take on 25 guys in a hallway with a hammer? No problem /even with a knife in his back for half of it/. He's dancing as much as fighting. The hallway fight scene is hailed as one of the best and it is the most famous scene in the movie. It reminded me of Super Mario Brothers or some other video game. There's something very flat, linear, and fanciful about it. It is unforgettable.
The acting is superb. Choi Min-Sik (I Saw the Devil) is ML, Oh Dae-su. OH MY! What a performance. It's one for the ages. Yoo Ji-Tae (Healer, Different Dreams) plays Woo-jin Lee. I'd only seen him in When My Love Blooms-7. Oh my, again! He isn't the same person at all as the MLin WMLB - unrecognizable. OB requires him to be a splintered and agonized person, and he is up to the challenge. Kang Hye-Jung (Lady Vengeance) portrays the beautiful and fragile Mi-do. Ji Dae-Han (Chicago Typewriter) is No Joo-hwan. Oh Dal-Su (Miracle in Cell No 7) plays Park Cheol-woong. Kim Byeong-Ok (Secret Mother) is Mr. Han, Seung-Shin Lee (Lady Vengeance) is Yoo Hyung-ja, and Yoon Jin-Seo (The Royal Gambler) plays Lee Soo-ah. Park Chan-Wook (201, The Handmaiden) is the Director. OB is based loosely on a Japanese manga "Old Boy", by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. It makes more sense that this story came out of Japan, which is not as conservative as Korea and there's a large swath of anime that is bent in the same manner that OB's plot is. If I say anymore I'll be in spoiler-zone.
OB is a serious and carefully composed film. It showcases brilliant visual juxtaposition for laughs - so many non-verbal scenes made us laugh. It's also gripping, horrifying, and shocking. Some of its themes are the nature of isolation, loneliness, imprisonment, and freedom. It is a deep dive into what constitutes our loves, our decisions, and ourselves. Are we even us without our memories? OB demonstrates how loose lips can sink ships: Gossip destroys lives. Beyond all of that, OB is one massive exercise in blame-shifting.
The really lonely people she knows “all hallucinate about ants,” Mido reflects. “They move in groups.” OB asserts that none of us are free. “How's life in a bigger prison?” Dae-su is taunted after he's freed. We'll see a rich dude who has “everything,” but he has imprisoned himself. Music is used effectively to compliment the mood. Classical music is most heard. One bad guy sings Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; maybe nobody ever feels like they fully fit in. The backdrop is heavy with dark blacks, greys, industrial colors, and reds. The lighting is low; everything looks dirty - until the end - which is blanketed with pure white virgin snow in an eternal sunshine of the spotless mind manifestation.
Dae-su is separated from Mido. The bad guys got her. He confronts his captor in a penthouse. Dae-su learns how his carelessness led to heartbreak that will never be resolved. Before he has a chance to process this information-dump, an even more painful truth is revealed to him. It splits him in half, emotionally and mentally. The acting in this scene by the two male leads is G.O.A.T. stuff. It's absolutely epic.
AS OB fades from our sight, we are haunted by yet another type of prison. The one that we choose. The limits we put on our own consciousness so that we can live in a way that we want to is also a prison - one of lies. We exist in lies, and we lie to ourselves first. They blanket our landscape like bright white snow, but snow must melt one day. What then?
〰🖍 IMHO
📣9.6 📝8.5 🎭10 💓1 🦋1 🎨7 🎵/🔊7.5 🔚7 ▪ 🌞4⚡7 😅5 😭8 😱6 😯4 🤢7 🤔6 💤0
Age 18+ nudity, violence, gore, torture, se×ual content; Language: F💣 @$$h0le; Rated R - restricted
Re-📺? I probably will, but there's no rush
What do I want to write about this $h!znit?
Gimme hypnosis so I can forget this $h+.
Watch OB with someone you love. You'll come out of it closer together due to the trauma-bonding.
I don't want to forget the performances, though. The acting is insanely good. The script is just insane. OB is a 2003 2hr release that is rated 83/94 on RT, and 8.3 on IMDB and MDL. I need to watch it another time or two to pick up on the details and connections, but I'm not sure I can handleit. Maybe I'll just read about it.
We'll see a person fly off of a bridge and another off of a building. We all want to fly away from our problems. Dae-su's wings are clipped in the opening moments - they were a present for his daughter. He had just made a call when everything went black. When he wakes up, he's imprisoned. He's not in a jail cell. He's in a seedy motel room and he has no clue where. Everyday he's fed the same dumplings from (he presumes) a nearby restaurant. No one ever talks to him or gives him any answers. This goes on for years. More than a dozen of them.
OB is the Anti-Matrix. He's in a physical prison and he's very aware of what's going on. Like The Matrix, there's lots of head games in play, but OB is the opposite of hi-tech. When Dae-su escapes, his family is gone. He decides to get revenge on his jailers. Mido serves him one of his first dinners as a free man. She puts her cold hands on his and promises to help.
They start with the dumplings. They methodically eat dumplings at new restaurants daily. Dae-su will know the taste of what he was fed for 15 years, without question. Once he narrows down the restaurant he's able to investigate the area for the building that had become his prison. His fists are hardened from years of punching the wall. So, when he finds his captors, can he take on 25 guys in a hallway with a hammer? No problem /even with a knife in his back for half of it/. He's dancing as much as fighting. The hallway fight scene is hailed as one of the best and it is the most famous scene in the movie. It reminded me of Super Mario Brothers or some other video game. There's something very flat, linear, and fanciful about it. It is unforgettable.
The acting is superb. Choi Min-Sik (I Saw the Devil) is ML, Oh Dae-su. OH MY! What a performance. It's one for the ages. Yoo Ji-Tae (Healer, Different Dreams) plays Woo-jin Lee. I'd only seen him in When My Love Blooms-7. Oh my, again! He isn't the same person at all as the MLin WMLB - unrecognizable. OB requires him to be a splintered and agonized person, and he is up to the challenge. Kang Hye-Jung (Lady Vengeance) portrays the beautiful and fragile Mi-do. Ji Dae-Han (Chicago Typewriter) is No Joo-hwan. Oh Dal-Su (Miracle in Cell No 7) plays Park Cheol-woong. Kim Byeong-Ok (Secret Mother) is Mr. Han, Seung-Shin Lee (Lady Vengeance) is Yoo Hyung-ja, and Yoon Jin-Seo (The Royal Gambler) plays Lee Soo-ah. Park Chan-Wook (201, The Handmaiden) is the Director. OB is based loosely on a Japanese manga "Old Boy", by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. It makes more sense that this story came out of Japan, which is not as conservative as Korea and there's a large swath of anime that is bent in the same manner that OB's plot is. If I say anymore I'll be in spoiler-zone.
OB is a serious and carefully composed film. It showcases brilliant visual juxtaposition for laughs - so many non-verbal scenes made us laugh. It's also gripping, horrifying, and shocking. Some of its themes are the nature of isolation, loneliness, imprisonment, and freedom. It is a deep dive into what constitutes our loves, our decisions, and ourselves. Are we even us without our memories? OB demonstrates how loose lips can sink ships: Gossip destroys lives. Beyond all of that, OB is one massive exercise in blame-shifting.
The really lonely people she knows “all hallucinate about ants,” Mido reflects. “They move in groups.” OB asserts that none of us are free. “How's life in a bigger prison?” Dae-su is taunted after he's freed. We'll see a rich dude who has “everything,” but he has imprisoned himself. Music is used effectively to compliment the mood. Classical music is most heard. One bad guy sings Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; maybe nobody ever feels like they fully fit in. The backdrop is heavy with dark blacks, greys, industrial colors, and reds. The lighting is low; everything looks dirty - until the end - which is blanketed with pure white virgin snow in an eternal sunshine of the spotless mind manifestation.
Dae-su is separated from Mido. The bad guys got her. He confronts his captor in a penthouse. Dae-su learns how his carelessness led to heartbreak that will never be resolved. Before he has a chance to process this information-dump, an even more painful truth is revealed to him. It splits him in half, emotionally and mentally. The acting in this scene by the two male leads is G.O.A.T. stuff. It's absolutely epic.
AS OB fades from our sight, we are haunted by yet another type of prison. The one that we choose. The limits we put on our own consciousness so that we can live in a way that we want to is also a prison - one of lies. We exist in lies, and we lie to ourselves first. They blanket our landscape like bright white snow, but snow must melt one day. What then?
〰🖍 IMHO
📣9.6 📝8.5 🎭10 💓1 🦋1 🎨7 🎵/🔊7.5 🔚7 ▪ 🌞4⚡7 😅5 😭8 😱6 😯4 🤢7 🤔6 💤0
Age 18+ nudity, violence, gore, torture, se×ual content; Language: F💣 @$$h0le; Rated R - restricted
Re-📺? I probably will, but there's no rush
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