Noises In A Quiet World

  This review will be discussing ‘Oldboy’, a 2003 South Korean revenge film by Park Chan-Wook. This film is the second instalment in his unofficial Vengeance trilogy. I watched this film on the suggestion of a friend (although insistence may be a more accurate term). Admittedly I had mixed expectations going in. From the description I’d been given, I was expecting a gritty action film in a similar vain to the ‘John Wick’ series. To my surprise, this is not what the film was at all. Instead, ‘Oldboy’ is a tense, greatly interesting and often disturbing film that must be seen to be believed.   ‘Oldboy’ tells the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min Sik), a regular man who finds himself imprisoned and locked in a small hotel room. However, after spending fifteen years watching the world go by on TV, training himself and plotting his revenge, Dae-Su is mysteriously set free again. From here, he starts his quest not only to find and take revenge on his captor, but to also discover why they trea