The Korean live action film Old Boy (2003) is a film that in a professional sense was well
created and is intelligently put together. However, I personally disliked the
film due to the themes that were in the film which were not straight away made
clear to me, leading me to a shocking surprise with the twist at the end of the
film.
The theme that is made clear at the start of the film is
most certainly ‘mystery’. However, as the film progresses, the themes
‘revenge’, ‘manipulation’, ‘incest’ and ‘suicide’ emerge. These themes
definitely accommodate for a dark film, though as I am not turned off by such
films, I still decided to watch it through till the end.
Now, what makes this film amazing is the way that the events
of the film are set up so that some actions, scenes and lines which are first
viewed as not important, end up being extremely ironic due to the final twist
of the film. This kind of innovative film structure allows the viewers to
remember past events and think about how ironic and wrong events which had
seemed completely logical before were.
This movie became highly valued and projected the actors to
further heights in their career as famous drama actors in Korea.
I give this film a 7/10 for its innovative structure, which
was downgraded due to the crazy themes which quite effectively damaged my
mentality and blew my mind for a short amount of time after the movie finished.
----William
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