I am still moved by this ending

Freda 2022-03-18 09:01:02

Watching the film "Old Boy", I feel a little bit for myself.
What kind of movie is this? Horror movie or gore movie? There are still pornographic movies of human nature. A story of revenge, two men who want revenge.

Fifteen years of dark imprisonment, hallucinations, self-harm, and the reason for choosing to survive was just for revenge. But he can't even know who the enemy is. Meeting the loved one is also deliberately arranged without knowing it.
So those steps that were calculated accurately, when Wu Daxiu kept struggling for revenge, the sneer onlookers kept reminding him, and kept guiding him to the truth.
Then the final truth is unacceptable. When the ending appears, both dignity and life are abandoned by the man who wanted revenge in the first place. Willing to endure the enemy's insults, ridicule, and the success of that proud revenge. For what? The dignity that he didn't want to preserve was because of the love for the girl, the love for his own daughter, or because of the little human conscience that he had left, and he knelt down in front of the enemy.

If you can abandon everything for revenge, the secret of that box, even if you let it appear in front of the girl, even if you cause her to suffer a lot of damage, you will have to complete your 15-year revenge. The reason for not doing this is because 15 years of imprisonment is not long enough, painful enough, and hatred is not strong enough, or is it still not annihilating his human nature, shame, vanity, or ethics?
If this is the case, and this is the purpose of that person, not to imprison him forever but to give him freedom, just for the last such torture. When Wu Daxiu knelt on the ground, the game might just be over.

He laughed like crying, because his whole revenge was so calculated, so perfect and unexpected.
"I, I am alive now, what fun is there?"

The man finally gave his life to his enemy in a desperate and triumphant gesture. Remorse for letting go, not only hate Wu Daxiu, but also hate weak self. Therefore, it took a lifetime to retaliate, against the man who insulted his sister, and against himself who couldn't save his sister.
Seeing this man being tortured and played in his own hands, but 15 years of imprisonment, the trapped, the bystanders, no one can be freed, no one can be released, how long a wait, how harsh hatred can make these two People have waited fifteen years.
When the soul is imprisoned by hatred, there is no real freedom.
When hatred loses its meaning, the existence of life loses its meaning.

The elevator door closed, and he said: My sister and I understand, but we still love each other like that. Can you guys too?
Give up your life by giving up your lover's hand. This may be the real purpose of his revenge.

On the ice and snow, a beautiful girl in a red hat hugged him and said "I love your uncle". What was his smile at that time?
I was still moved by this ending.
Even if I'm not as good as a beast, don't I have the right to live?

The true love of sisters and brothers has been lost, and the love of father and daughter within the calculation, is it really not true love? I would rather believe this. I would rather believe it.
The reason that the man tortured him in this way may be to let him experience his pain back then, but maybe also to hope that they can truly love this way. He wanted to prove that love is not illusory, even if it is forbidden incest love, he can persist, unlike his weak self.
This father and daughter replaced him and his sister, who were able to live in pain but bravely.
This may be the ultimate relief for him.

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

    South Korean director Park Chan-wook, who graduated from philosophy, told us to what extent the film can express philosophy, and what kind of film is a good philosophical expression. The story line based on Japanese manga is a bit surreal, but the wonderfully brilliant shot scheduling and editing, well-designed scenes and colors, and the right music match, the incest theme that all nations are ashamed to face is shockingly presented to the audience. before.

  • Merl 2022-03-24 09:01:06

    This kind of revenge can only be described in terms of luxury. Park Chan-yu's audiovisual language is weird and gorgeous, but it would be better if the whole film can be stopped abruptly when Li Youzhen commits suicide. Such obscure hope is not what I like to see.

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.