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U.S. newspapers in their reviews of the Korean film ¡°Oldboy¡± invariably zoomed in on a scene where the hero Oh Dae-su (played by Choi Min-sik) gulps down a small live octopus. Perhaps they felt sorry for the octopus, or because the scene encapsulates Oh¡¯s brutal temperament.
¡°Let's just say the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Octopoids will be picketing most screenings,¡± the Washington Post commented on April 8. In the Friday edition of the Boston Globe, film critic Ty Burr wrote, ¡°By the time the hero sits down in a sushi bar to eat a live, wriggling squid, you'll have probably figured out whether ¡®Oldboy¡¯ is or isn't for you.¡±
In a review on the same day, the San Francisco Chronicle suggested the scene has already acquired a certain fame by word of mouth when it said, ¡°And there's an already notorious scene in a restaurant that begins when he announces, 'I want to eat something live...'" The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote, ¡°The ¡®money scene¡¯ must be a cute young sushi chef falling hard for the rather dilapidated Oh after seeing him swallow a sizable and writhing octopus. It doesn't go down easy.¡±
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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