I’ve been meaning to watch this for a while.
Have you seen it before?
Nope, but it’s been in my backlog alongside sime other Korean films.
It is exceptional film making but also very fucked up. I highly recommend. Would love to know what you think if you watch it…
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Oldboy is a great film but yes, incredibly messed up. Uncomfortably so, one that plays on the psyche for a long while after the credits roll.
Another film in a not entirely unrelated sense is “Womb” with Eva Green and Matt Smith. Not a great movie by any means but the premise is similarly all the way fucked up.
Below I spoil the whole Womb plot:
Two friends grow up in a remote setting - the girl leaves but comes back years later to find her old friend still living there. He immediately falls in love with this old friend. He dies but the girl gets his DNA and has him cloned. Only trouble is… that clone has to be born. and grow up. She gives birth to the baby clone of her former lover and raises him as her own but doesn’t tell him about his true identity. As an adult he finds out and then he and his mum-but not mum - shag before he leaves.
Sounds like you don’t need to be warned, but whatever you do, don’t watch the American remake instead.
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