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| | Stir crazy -- and hungry for revenge |
 | | These films launch a kind of assault on the audience, and it isn't surprising to learn that Tarantino was head of the 2004 Cannes jury that awarded this picture the Grand Prix. |
 | | The critical take is divided, with one school citing Jacobean revenge tragedy and contending the movie bares the depths of the human heart, while another, perhaps larger group says "Oldboy" is just sadistic and perverse. |
 | | Whichever side you take, you will be impressed, or appalled, by such bits of virtuoso violence as the sequence when Dae-su, armed with a hammer, and with a knife sticking out of his back, takes on a corridor full of vicious enemies. |
| sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/15/DDGG0C7R951.DTL&type=movies (604 words) |
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