My opinion regarding the issue I said before.....
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Originally Posted by roshiq
I think the way Park leveled the 'revenge' issue in this films could be marked as the worst nightmare for any human being. For example the most disturbing twist of Oldboy. How could a man bear that kinda shocking & horrifying truth for the rest of his life? Besides the unique storyline with convincing amount of gore & torture parts the viewers here also confronting the moral dilemma of the characters & situations in a horrified way that can even able to haunt the viewer after the credits roll. Same thing goes for Mr. and Lady Vengeance also.
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Plus I like to add.....
Old Boy is as much a horror film as
Audition or
Battle Royale. The main character Dae-su goes through so many horrendous and tragic moments that he becomes the ultimate victim. He's a man who is finally freed from his incredibly long captivity, only to discover that he's still a prisoner, and one marked for more torment than any man deserves to undergo.
Old Boy could...and would...become just another revenge flick if it went like "wrongly accused man gets out of 'prison' and seeks revenge on his captors", the difference between who fucked up whose life more...captive or captor...becomes rather blurred. The revenge does come in
Old Boy, but by the time it does, it clearly becomes an afterthought, and the common taste of revenge becomes bitter and sour because Dae-su discovers that revenge won't give him back those fifteen years...can't give him back his daughter and wife...and won't change the fact that he is, in essence, may not a very good person.
This film can disturb the living hell out of any new viewers for many years with its themes of murder, rape, revenge, incest, and more. Old Boy is challenging, absorbing, disturbing, and ultimately gratifying a "true shocking horror" film.