Use hurt love to repay the hurt of love

Casey 2022-03-17 09:01:01

The [old boy] I watched this time last year, I will watch it again this year to commemorate the first anniversary.

At that time, it was strongly recommended by Director Sheng, focusing on the story. But at that time, perhaps the most stimulating my nerves were violent visions: for example, various self-abuse, swallowing raw octopus, cutting the tongue, knocking out the teeth, etc., I felt that there were teeth falling and blood flowing out of my mouth.
The story itself is indeed shocking. Quoting a common word in "Story-Principles of XXXX"-the fact that the climax is "crashed" is enough to lead the audience into another abyss. From this perspective, [Old Boy] is a model, not only has a very skillful structure, but also a screenwriter who is proud enough to be proud of the imagination. The intuitive effect achieved is: cruel enough, violent enough, tortuous enough, and sensational enough. .

I tried my best to put aside the thought of dissecting the movie, I just wanted to try to stand in Wu Daxiu's perspective to experience some of the truth that was coming, because the movie gave me too much unbearable visual cruelty, and suppressed those who couldn't say it. The sadness.
The terrible thing about hatred is that it is difficult to control. Most of the hatred is swelled in imagination, until one day it rushes out of the chest and makes people hysterical. Wu Daxiu lived in imagination for fifteen years. At first, he was just confused and didn't know why he was imprisoned. Later, he began to depict the person imprisoning him in his heart, and he began to have hatred. Time is terrible, everything starts from nothing, from nothing to nothing, it's easy. Wu Daxiu became a terrifying man. Fifteen years have distorted him. He wants to swallow everything with his hatred. Looking for an enemy, meeting a woman, falling in love, making love, looking for an enemy again, facing an enemy... At the moment when he stood in the tower, Wu Daxiu thought that he could finally find the reason for his confusion for fifteen years, but everything has already been controlled. , Fifteen years of imprisonment life, fifteen years later, on the road of revenge, no step was not in the control of the enemy. At that moment, he understood that he had avenged the enemy and hurt his own life with the same incest. daughter.
A tragedy that was originally full of fatalism, turned out to be elaborately laid out. This kind of revenge can simply swallow all the lives and souls of people. Does an accidental long tongue need such a cruel revenge? But if this revenge is from the deepest love, what else can the repayer have to say? The hurt of love must be repaid by the hurt of love. Are all the injured in the world?

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Extended Reading
  • Anahi 2022-03-25 09:01:04

    There are a lot of great highlight paragraphs, but some places always feel wrong, the theme is a little bit oblique, and it is too deliberate when it is shaky.

  • Theron 2022-04-23 07:01:02

    Forbidden love! The yellow filter and moist atmosphere have a bit of an early Wong Kar-wai feel, coupled with the deep lines, and the bloody and incestuous presentation, it is indeed a very stylish movie. And this film still leaves me with a question: Can I accept incest? How do you deal with it if you accidentally get caught up in it?

Oldboy quotes

  • Dae-su Oh: The TV is both a clock and a calendar. It's your school, your home, your church, your friend...

    [Dae-su masturbates to a pop star onscreen]

    Dae-su Oh: ... and your lover. But... my lover's song is too short.

  • Dae-su Oh: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.