Kill Bill mixed with Asian flavor

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2005)

I believe some Asian film haters create multiple accounts to make unconstructive comments and VOTE NEGATIVELY on Oldboy comments section. It is so obvious that all the good comments of Oldboy get huge amount of negative votes. Please continue doing it because you only know how to vent your disagreement with a voting button. How SAD.
Did anyone said it was based on a true story? When Matrix came out, did everyone say America has Agent Smiths everywhere? When Slience of the Lambs came out, did everyone think America is full of pyschopaths that eat humans? This is just a movie. Come on! Just because the language is in Korean and the scenes are set in Korea doesn't mean all Koreans are sick people indulging in incest. How stupid can you get? This is a fictional story based on a Japanese comic book, made into a Korean movie! By the way, some of you find the main character eating live octopus sick and in bad taste. If you bothered to check the lifestyle of Koreans, you will know that eating live octopus is very NORMAL in their country.
For those people who bashed this movie non-stop. Sorry to lower your spirits but Hollywood is doing a remake of it because it is a well engineered movie with a good twist in the end.
There's some black humour in the movie but some people don't seem to appreciate it. I love the part when the hotel owner returned with a brand new set of golden teeth and gave Dae-su the dentist's name card. Told him the service was good and he should try it too. The part when Dae-su beat up some punks while smoking a cigarette, he concluded that 15 years of training was well applied. However when he tried to make love to Mido in the toilet, he found out his 15 years of training has failed him.
The ant Mido saw in the train was huge because her loneliness is bigger than Dae-su. In this movie, ants is compared to loneliness because ants live in a big family. At least Dae-su led his first half of his life as a happy guy, married and had a child. He was locked up when he is in his 30s. Maybe that is why his ants is much smaller. Mido grew up parentless and knowing her mother was murdered and his father missing could have been a big blow.
In the Oldboy: Ultimate Edition, one of the deleted scenes showed that Woo-jin visited the Hypnotist before the final confrontation with Dae-su. Woo-jin told the Hypnotist that Dae-su will come visit her a few years later and he instructed her to hynotise Dae-su to be a happy man.
In the ending of Oldboy, Dae-su indeed visited the Hypnotist. He begged her to erase his painful memory. The Hypnotist advised him that it may fail. The next scene we see Dae-su meeting his girlfriend (daughter). He hugged her and cried when she said 'I love you'. My personal opinion is that he is still the same monster with the painful memories. When the camera panned across the snow. We can only see Dae-su's footsteps walking away from the two chairs. What happened to the Hypnotist's footsteps? Well.. she was killed and hanged on a tree (watch again for her brown coat in the tree branches) because she failed to erase his memories and the monster inside him decided to finish her off. This explains why there is only one set of footprints.
'Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink alike.' The explanation of this phrase is that 'Be it you make love to your sister or your daughter, the weight of the sin is the same.' I hope I have made some people's confused mind clearer.
In the future, all movies will have cliché romantic wishy-washy happy endings because people refuse to accept unique movies like Oldboy, Kill Bill, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction. Creativity will sink like a rock.
Mao points: 10/10 (PERFECT)