Old boy

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                      korean wine in hollywoodian bottle?

       Spike lee try to remake Chan-wook Park's great film Oldboy,but he is not up to mark so we have to concede that  Chan -wook Park is a wise man who turndown the offer for remake of the ' Evil dead'.After Watching this film viewer might think if spike lee should have shown same wisdom it would have prove better.. well, but hollywood remake has it's own plus points and that aspect has been very well exploited by spike lee. so here  first advantage is great actor Josh Brolin and his heroine Elizabeth Olsen.

Well,The story is well known. An ad executive one day kidnapped and solitary confined for 20 years and during all these years he tries to understand what went wrong and Whether he is good or bad human being? Typical korean way the film tries to give answer to moral question but like most of violent korean film these answer may not be acceptable to indian audience who has much finer and refined sensibilities for moral issues .

Interestingly for Indian audience this film may not offer anything new. Sanjay gupta already made indian version of this film titled ' Zinda' ( sanjay dutt).And sensor board had chopped this hollywood film heavily so it may possible you may not be able to connect some vital story points,but for the fan of Josh Brolin this may prove a  treat.Another new thing is that Spike lee has done is, he connects audience to story line through major TV events which works very well as story telling device. Original film won awards at Cannes.  But we are not sure about this venture of spike lee.So if you have not seen the original or the  bollywood rip off then this is your chance to see hollywood version of korean classic,which offers korean violence in mild manner.