An astonishing film in so many ways. It’s storytelling is jaw dropping, from the first thirty minutes alone I had been reduced to a ball of moist clay and the shape of my being completely under the film’s spell. It sent me to awesome invulnerable heights where Oh Dae-su had seemingly become an unstoppable, mean, green, vengeance machine. From my shaky throne I was thrust into the ultimate depths of depraved suffering, left to writhe in a pool of my own bloody vomit with no visible light at the end of the tunnel. But alas the shape of my miserable being was, in the end, given a soft bed of snow, cooling my enraged soul and giving me hope… roll credits…