✅ Now it’s Thebes, and perhaps the best transfer of Greek tragedy’s elemental human passions to the 21st century I’ve ever seen.
✅ Magnificent script, directing, acting, choreography, and cinematography with a haunting palette of bleach-bypassed primary colors.
✅ All its emotional extremes and the ensuing extreme acts of violence are tightly fastened to theme, motifs, desires, and needs.
Monumental masterpiece so intense it will haunt you for months.
올드보이 by Park Chan-wook, 2003.
Watched at the Bambi theater on March 3, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.