At Cannes in 2004, a hyper-violent Korean revenge fantasy was awarded the Grand Jury Prize: Oldboy. The film comes from the cinema of Korean Wave, and mixes Asian Extreme with Greek Tragedy to create a surreal, operatic, and all around bizarre experience. Can a movie portray violence without glorifying it? Is there a moral tale under all this carnage? And how does Oldboy compare to American revenge stories like Kill Bill?
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Next week on the Stake Podcast: Predator. He ain’t got time to bleed.
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