13. Oldboy(2003)
Oh Dae-Su has been locked in a hotel room for 15 years, severely tortured by his captors, with no knowledge of why. Released and bitter, he seeks revenge on the men who destroyed him, only to get caught up in a web of violence and fear and falling in love with an attractive sushi chef.
The way all of Oldboy presents itself is not what you would normally see in your traditional film. It strips down the bare essence of humanity and presents an almost animalistic quality to it. Everything within, the extreme violence and gore, the fearless approach of the subject matter and especially the plot as a whole once the ending is revealed, is raw and brilliant against all the other films that it could be put up against.
It's not often a film can make me feel so unnerved and so detatched from humanity. Oldboy can and does, almost as if it know it's just because it can.
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