Choose "Old Boy" and this movie is half the battle. The old boy has a special temperament. He is a heartthrob in middle school, a decadent alcoholic when he is twenty, and a charming middle-aged uncle. Spike Lee chose Josh Brolin, who is very close to Cui Minzhi in all aspects, and I still can't think of a more suitable actor in my mind. If this story is placed in China, Jiang Wen would be quite suitable. The theme of "Old Boy" is revenge, and the inheritance of the story is the constant replacement of new hatred and old hatred. Compared with Park Chan-wook's emphasis on showing abnormal mental distortions, Spike Lee uses Freudian psychology, which is more familiar to Americans, to weave this revenge network more closely. But it is this psychological rigor that exposes the flaws in behavioral logic. The little girl falls in love with Uncle Meng. It takes too much accidental piece together. Even with more psychological hints, it is still hard to believe that the little girl can fall in love with Uncle Meng at first sight in a rather embarrassing situation. The logic is as if Uncle Meng owes money to the little girl. Spike Lee's adaptation is not good enough, the movie is derived from the wonderfulness of the story itself. To some extent, psychological implantation through artificial control of the living environment is much rarer than a short and quick way of hypnosis with Eastern mysticism at a certain moment.
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