Hello Harnwellians,

Wishing you a good week. Please join our Friday Movie Nights at Harnwell series. 

This week's film is Park Chan- Wook's Oldboy.

About the film: Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and young daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private "prison" for 15 years. 

No one tells him why he's there or who his jailer is but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a T.V. to keep him company. While watching T.V., he discovers that he has been framed for his wife's murder, and during one of the occasions when he's knocked out by gas, someone has drawn blood from him and left it at the scene of the crime. The imprisonment lasts for 15 years until one day, when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise roof. He's determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up for all those years. While he's eating in a Japanese restaurant, his cell phone rings and a voice dares him to figure out why he was imprisoned...

This film was the winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury and Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2004.

You could watch the films on your own and join a group discussion about the ideas and features in the film every Friday from 8:00 - 9:30 PM. Please RSVP to Ivanco Talevski at ivancot@upenn.edu and join this group discussion meeting. 

Make sure you create an account for Kanopy. it is a remarkable resource for all of us.

See: https://guides.library.upenn.edu/cims/streaming

Link to see the film: https://upenn.kanopy.com/video/oldboy

Link to discussion meeting: https://bluejeans.com/1119739385/9722?src=calendarLink