Storyline

Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him, and sedate him to avert a desperate suicide--and as his only companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell--the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. Then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. However, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords

imprisonment, psychological torture, father daughter incest, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, revenge, captive, neo noir, love, hypnosis, incest, father daughter relationship, older man younger woman relationship, female nudity, knife in back, pain, surprise ending, tongue cut out, tied up, eavesdropping

Short Review

A lurid, complex, introspective beast, enacting astonishing cruelty on its protagonist like a slow-acting poison.

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