Please note that I am not talking about the recent hit movie "Eleven Degrees of Youth: Old Boy", but the Korean film "Old Boy" that won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The gloomy and violent style of Park Chan-wook's "Old Boy" will make every good-hearted young man shudder, and only certain viewers with unique tastes will be amazed by it. Quentin Tarantino, the violence guru who awarded the film the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, is one of them.
Takeshi Kitano showed us a completely sinful world in "Extreme Evil", and no one is the so-called "good person". And "Old Boy" subverts the character setting in the original comic "Tie Han Qiang Long", portraying a kind and simple hero into a madman desperate for revenge, also confusing the boundaries between good and bad. You must know that even after Mr. Goto in the comics is released, he is only to find out the truth of the matter, and he does not have the outrageous will of revenge as in the movie. You see, isn't the scene of Wu Daxiu chewing a live octopus enough to express his inner pain? In a sense, the person who framed him has achieved his goal, and Wu Daxiu has been carried away by hatred, unable to return to the life of a normal person. The song of sin rang out in the dark and boundless city, making people unable to extricate themselves.
As for the plot after the movie, I won't say much, many people can't accept it. The deepest impression that the whole movie left on me is that during his fifteen years of detention, Wu Daxiu did not become completely decadent, but practiced boxing for fifteen years. There are also scars on his fist. I have a weird idea, in this depressing film, is this part of the inspirational part the director wants to add? On the first day that Wu Daxiu was released, the poor man he met on the rooftop who was about to jump off a building with a pug in his arms was a stark contrast to the vigorous Wu Daxiu. Indeed, in the modern cold city, there is no room for weak and weak cowards. When you encounter difficulties and hardships, think of Wu Daxiu who kept beating the wall with his fists in a dim room, and maybe you will suddenly be enlightened.
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