South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook directed this violent and offbeat story of punishment and vengeance. A husband and father, for reasons he doesn't understand, finds himself locked up in an appartment, with no idea why or whom his jailers may be. With a small television as his only link to the outside world and a daily ration of fried dumplings as his only sustenance, he struggles to keep his mind and body intact, but when he learns through a news report that his wife has been killed, he begins a long and difficult project of digging an escape tunnel with a pair of chopsticks. Before he can finish he is released, with as little explanation as when he was locked up. He's soon given a wad of money and a mobile phone by a man on the street. He is left to struggle to unravel the secret of who his captor was, what happened to his wife and daughter, and how to best get revenge.
Intriguing and captivating, this is a very watchable film. There are a couple of scenes that are not for the squeamish and it's 18 certificate is well earned. The plot plays out at just the right tempo and the end revelation is completely unexpected.
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