The theme of "Old Boy" is revenge, and the succession of the story is the constant replacement of new hatred and old hatred. Compared with Park Chan-wook's emphasis on showing perverted mind distortions, Spike Lee uses Freudian psychology, which is more familiar to Americans, to weave this revenge network more tightly. But it is this psychological rigor that exposes the flaws in the logic of behavior. A little girl falls in love with Uncle Meng, which requires too much accidental piecing together. Even if there are more psychological hints, it is still difficult for people to believe that a little girl can fall in love with Uncle Meng at first sight in a rather embarrassing situation. The logic is as hard as Uncle Meng owes the little girl money. Spike. Lee's adaptation is not successful, but the movie comes from the wonderful story itself. To a certain extent, it is much more difficult to engage in psychological implantation by means of artificial control of the living environment than to hypnotize with oriental mysticism at a certain moment.
This is the director's most forceful change, and it is also a failure of the American version compared to the Korean version.
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