OldBoy first published by Movie Gazette Revenge is a theme as old as western literature itself, but in the aftermath of 9/11 it has come under renewed cinematic scrutiny. Recently we have had the ironic postmodernism of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill volumes, the reactionary blood-letting of Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Punisher and Tony Scott’s Man on Fire, and the environmentalist insanity…
