Sunday, April 22, 2007

Oldboy Cho Seung-Hui


Oh come on! I think they are really stretching here. Some are saying that a few of the pics that the idiot Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC, look similar to the cover of Park Chan-Wook's bloody, revenge tale, "Oldboy". "The inspiration for perhaps the most inexplicable image in the set that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC news on Monday may be a movie from South Korea that won the Gran Prix prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2004.
The poses in the two images are similar, and the plot of the movie, “Oldboy,” seems dark enough to merit at least some further study. Following is The Times’s plot summary:
'The film centers on a seemingly ordinary businessman, Dae-su (the terrific Choi Min-sik), who, after being mysteriously imprisoned, goes on an extensive, exhausting rampage, seeking answers and all manner of bloody revenge.'
In a Times review, Manohla Dargis wrote that the film’s 'body count and sadistic violence' mostly appealed to 'cult-film aficionados for whom distinctions between high art and low are unknown, unrecognized and certainly unwelcome."-Hollywood Reporter Blog

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