Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special podcast on Old Boy, the new Spike Lee movie.

And joining me in the Slate New York studio is Aisha Harris.

Hello.

Hi, Dana.

You are a culture blogger for Slate and a frequent contributor to our browbeat culture blog.

And you also happened to be walking out of Old Boy when I saw it the other night.

I didn't realize you were going to be at the movie, too. And I'm really glad you were, because this is definitely a movie that needs a spoiler special.

For one thing, it's full of plot twists, which you really don't want to go in knowing, which

makes me glad that I didn't see the Korean original 2003 Old Boy that this is based on until after

having seen Spike Lee.

And it's also just a very intense, strange movie that requires some processing.

So let's process.

But before we start spoiling, I just want to know overall, what was your reaction, good or bad?

Neither.

It was, I was engaged the entire time.

I will say that.

But I don't think it was a necessarily great experience or a bad experience. It just

happened and it happened. It was just a Zen moment of pure being? Yeah, yeah. Yes. I mean, having now

seen the Korean original, which I saw subsequently, you know, for our conversation and for thinking

about this movie, it really seems like a case where you do sort of want to know what his influences

are and why he

made this movie. I would say that the Korean movie is much better, much more cohesive as a work.

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