Article: REVIEW; Revenge not always so sweet

If you know a man by his enemies, what are we to think about the title character in Korean director Park Chanwook's "Oldboy"?

Anyone abducted and imprisoned for 15 years without being told why and without human contact must have done something heinous.

In fact, the opposite is true. He is an ordinary, if undeniably unlikable, fellow, a loud drunk and a bit of a bully. But his "crime" was the sort of casual and careless everyday mistake that any one of us could make, which makes its dramatic repercussions even more horrifying.

"You're dead if I get out," he threatens an unseen jailer who slips food through a slot in the bottom of the door of his rundown- hotel-room cell "After 11 years it ...

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