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Oldboy (2003)

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Film Reviews, Lgbt Horror, Gay, Gay Horror, Queer Horror, Lgbt, Queer, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Swallow that octopus and run away from those ants because we're discussing Park Chan-wook's 2003 masterpiece Oldboy!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to control yourself.

0:11.0

Welcome back to horror queers.

0:25.9

We're talking, even though I am no better than a beast, don't I have a right to live?

0:30.5

We're talking, seeking revenge is the best cure for someone who has been hurt.

0:34.9

And we're talking, one word gets you pregnant, another makes you fall in love.

0:40.6

And I'm Joe.

0:42.0

And I'm Trace.

0:43.0

And we're talking to one squiggly octopus.

0:46.0

Oh, boy.

0:46.9

Yes, folks.

0:47.5

We are talking about a content warning for some animal abuse and also death by suicide.

0:54.0

Yeah, lots. Well, and incest if you want to be

0:56.4

triggered by that, I guess. But there's also attempted rape in this movie. Oh, yeah. So this

1:03.2

movie has it all. And this movie is none other than Park Chan Wook's old boy. Yes, the 2003 version. And no, folks, I did not get around to watching the remake because Trace said, ooh, you might actually confuse them because they are very similar. They are. And we'll just get out of the way now, honestly, because it's... Sure. I have seen Spike Lee's remake. I saw it in theaters and I have not seen it since.

1:28.4

Okay.

1:29.0

I think my big concern walking into it was, well, they're going to have to water this down because, like, American audience don't do incest like this.

1:37.0

Not often unless it's quite lotus.

1:39.1

And I will say they do retain the twist for the most part.

1:42.5

There's a couple tweets to like the minutia of it but

1:44.5

overall like it's still very much the incest twist um okay except i think the only thing they do is that

1:49.8

they have the wujan character played by charl to copply it's instead of him having a relationship

1:53.2

with his sister it's that their dad was molesting both of them oh wow okay that's a different kind

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