Not Quite Beverly Hills

There is sheer force about Oldboy that one would be hard-pressed to find in any Hollywood movie. From consumption of a live octopus, to cutting off one's tongue, to the final terrible secret and the astonishing ending in the context of that secret - it is a psychedelic experience with enormous shock value. I began expecting a fairly simple storyline whose intensity was largely confined to the protagonist's reactions during the long confinement. I was shocked to see that the movie had barely begun at his freedom. There have been cheap imitations - having seen the original now, I believe that such passion would have been impossible to render in a medium like a Hindi movie.