Old Boy

Last night I saw the newest film by Korean director Park Chanwook. I had been hearing the buzz about it for ages (Cannes this, remake that), but I really didn't have any clue what I was in for. It's amazing, disturbing, beautiful, horrible, fresh. It feels fresh. In both the sense of the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" being "fresh", and also in the sense that my students here at Chinese University said that my haircut looks "fresh". New. Sharp. Badass. Clean. The edge of something newly cut, like a flower or a wound.

Anyway. You must see this movie. Now. Especially before it becomes yet another Brad Pitt vehicle (as the Infernal Affairs remake was going to be) in the ongoing saga of Hollywood's rape-and-pillage of Asian cinema. Check out more information here, more pictures here and the trailer here.