On an ordinary night, Oh Dae-so (Choi Min-sik) enters the police station because he is drunk.
He suddenly disappeared after his friend took him out...
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Wu Daxiu woke up to find himself locked in a small room with only a television set.
And here, three meals a day are fried dumplings.
At first, Wu Daxiu would humbly ask the people who delivered the food, begging them to let him go, but there was no response.
Gradually, Wu Daxiu became numb, and every day was like a walking dead.
Until he saw on tv that his wife was dead, and it was widely believed that the murderer was Wu Daxiu.
Wu Daxiu began to practice boxing with the TV and began to dig tunnels, he wanted to escape.
Fifteen years had passed, and Wu Daxiu had finally dug through a wall, and he was almost able to escape.
However, when he woke up the next morning, he had come out of the small room.
At this moment, he was lying on the roof of the building, and there was a suitcase next to him, which contained the money that Wu Daxiu needed.
Wu Daxiu
After Wu Daxiu came out, he went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner, where he met the beautiful heroine and fainted.
When he wakes up, he finds that he has been taken home by the heroine Mi Tao (Kang Hye-jeong).
From this time on, Mei Tao began to accompany Wu Daxiu to take revenge and find out the truth, and the two of them also fell in love with each other in the process.
Towards the end of the film, the truth is finally revealed.
It turned out that when he was in school, Wu Daxiu accidentally broke the love affair of a pair of brothers and sisters, and told his friends about their relationship.
Unexpectedly, my friends spread it in the school, and eventually caused the "sister" to commit suicide by diving.
And all he has experienced now is his brother's revenge.
Brother
Moreover, the younger brother also told Wu Daxiu a shocking secret.
It turned out that the beautiful peach that he loved deeply turned out to be his own daughter!
In order not to let this secret be known to Mei Tao, Wu Daxiu abandoned all his dignity to ask for his brother's forgiveness.
He even knelt in front of his brother to learn how to bark and cut off his tongue with scissors.
The younger brother looked at Wu Daxiu's appearance and still buried the secret, and finally he died in the elevator.
At the end of the film, in the midst of a white snow, Wu Daxiu asks a hypnotist to help him forget his relationship with Mei Tao.
In the end, redemption was achieved.
Snow hugs
In the story of King Oedipus, the male protagonist kills his father and marries his mother, and finally stabs his blind eyes and exiles himself.
This incest plot is very similar to Old Boys.
The plot of Oedipus King's blind eyes also corresponds to the plot of Wu Daxiu cutting his tongue.
And the tragic ending of "Oedipus King" seems to implicitly hint at wu Daxiu's ending.
From this, we have reason to believe that "Old Boys" is "King Oedipus" in South Korea.
This Koreanization of European mythology and its more interesting and charm than the original mythology quickly attracted a large number of European audiences.
Therefore, the popularity of this film in Europe is even higher than that in Asia.
Peach
Old Boys is a 2003 film directed by South Korean director Park Chan-wook.
It is a film full of violent aesthetics, and it is very different from the general violent film.
This film does not have the pain and pleasure of revenge, but the male protagonist's kneeling and begging for forgiveness makes people feel depressed.
It's a break with the mold of violent cinema that makes it no longer monotonous.
The most thought-provoking thing about this film is its reflections on love, ethics, and life.
Is it wrong to fall in love?
Is it the two people who love each other, or the people who set the moral code for this society?
How should this be determined?
As the second part of Park Chan-wook's "Revenge Trilogy", "Old Boy" inherits park Chan-wook's previous style and takes it to the extreme (the perfect fusion of bloody violence and aesthetics).
This is an important film in film history, and it has enough excitement.
I highly recommend it for everyone to watch!
All in all, in short, this is really a good film. It's not easy to find a film hard, can't you give a triple line? Love you guys, Tweet!