If Joe can figure out who Adrian is and why he imprisoned Joe, Adrian will give Joe the recording of him raping and killing his ex-wife, a written confession of those crimes along with his imprisonment, $20 million in diamonds, and he gets to watch Adrian blow his brains out. Become a member of our premium site for just $1/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life parents" as her own. A teen boy grabs a pair of brief-style underwear from a teen girl's laundry basket, tossing them to another teen boy, who smells them deeply and makes a sexual remark about the girl; a second teen girl comes to the first girl's defense and tells the teen boys to stop teasing her. It triggers what should normally be a happy ending where the protagonist gets with their love interest, which in turn makes viewers all the more unsettled when it sinks in that they are being emotionally manipulated to be happy for this incestuous relationship. We see a man urinate on a building corner (the man faces away and we hear the sound of urination). He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. Oldboy. He is the one who orchestrated Joe Doucett's twenty year imprisonment to make him pay for his family's abysmal death. The story of Oldboy 2003 is based on how a father has been struggling to find his daughter for so many years. Stoker Trailer Starring Nicole Kidman and Mia . Her twitters @GoJunko are usually filled with Star Trek-isms. What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. To give some context surrounding the climactic ending of the film, Oldboy is a South Korean film directed by Park Chan-Wook that focuses on the journey of a man named Oh Dae-su ( Choi Min-sik). Even after the Oldboy remake came out in 2013, 2003's Oldboy continues to inspire modern series and movies. A man is shown heavily sedated by a gas as we see hands plucking hair from his head, taking a swab from the man's mouth and then placing the man's hand on a crow bar (we learn that these were planted as evidence in the murder of the man's ex-wife). people imprisoned on the multiple cam shot that SLJ was watching. A man grabs a hammer from the hands of a woman, and then shoves a young man off a bike and steals the bike, following a man driving an SUV. Why were they there? Oldboy.2013.720p.BluRay.DTS-5.1.x264-AXED (by: Matmanamane) Webdl ( 1 subtitles) Oldboy.German.2013.BDRiP.x264-EXQUiSiTE (by: Matmanamane) TH Thai Bluray ( 1 subtitles) Oldboy (2013) 720p BluRay - OCR (by: tre2004) TR Turkish Trke Webdl ( 1 subtitles) Oldboy.2013.BDRiP.AC3-5.1.XviD-AXED (by: mstskn) NL Dutch Nederlands, Vlaams Webdl Shawn Rounsavall is charged . We learn that a man and a woman that have been shown having sex are father and daughter and that neither were aware of their relationship when they engaged in sex, but the man is disgusted and horrified when it is revealed and he is forced to watch clips of CCTV footage of him having sex with his own adult daughter. Meanwhile, Joe gives the rest of his diamonds to Chaney who imprisons Joe back in the hotel room for the rest of his life. These scenes are crucial to why, out of the movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, Oldboy is the most compelling. So there you have it! Unsure of what to do, Oh Dae-su finds the hypnotist that tranced him earlier in the film and convinces her to make him forget the secret, so that he can go on without living in disgust with himself. Perhaps it is an attempt to make us show more empathy towards those around us, and to not be so rash as to act out on those emotions that would demand for us to seek revenge. Mr. Park runs everything at the hotel in Oldboy 2003, and hes more of a secondary crime lord to Lee Woo-jin, who keeps tabs on all of the hotels tenants. He looks into the yearbook and the name says "Adrian Pryce". What I didnt understand was why were the other dozen? In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su eats a live octopus after hes released. Just go to our search page or use the search bar, with or without a keyword, from the top navigation menu. Old Boy MPA Rating : for strong brutal violence, disturbing images, some graphic sexuality and nudity, and language. A man is seen with yarn wrapped around his waist and legs, pinning him to a table and a metal knitting needle stuck through each hand and into the table (we see blood on the needles and from the hand wounds); another man stands over him holding a box cutter to the man's neck, where a series of dashes have been drawn with a permanent marker and the man tells the pinned down man that he is planning on cutting enough of the man's neck that he will be able to rip off the man's head with his bare hands; the man with the box cutter cuts into the man's neck, throwing the bloody pieces into a trash can and as he continues to cut, the man pauses and pours salt into the wounds, followed by water; the torturer is interrupted when another man knocks on the door and the torturer leads the man out of the room (blood is pouring from the man's wound-covered neck) and we see the torturer holding the box cutter to the man's neck as he walks through a crowd of other men. Parents need to know that Oldboy is a classic but brutally violent movie from South Korea, and a beloved cult favorite among fans of genre movies. [10] The producing team announced on November 2009 that the project was dead.[11]. Witness how far we as humans can go to get revenge as we explain the ending to one of the best revenge films ever made. It received a mixed reception from critics, with many finding the film inferior to the classic. What drives Lee Woo-jin to imprison Oh Dae-su for so long in Oldboy 2003 is that Dae-su tells his best friend, Joo-hwan, about Lee Woo-jin and his sister, Lee Soo-ah, having sex with each other back in high school. She is able to help identify a Chinese restaurant that Joe's food came from while imprisoned. He buys a Chinese rubber duck from a street vendor for his daughters third birthday and is abducted by a woman carrying a yellow umbrella. As humans, we are prone to a plethora of emotions throughout our lives. As the author, I had to make a fact correction regarding *Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. Instead the viewer developed no pity for Lees main character. However, any commercial reproduction of anything appearing within this site is both illegal and in really bad taste and we will take action |more|. Though I will give props to Josh Brolin for his work as an actor during the reveal. When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. He spots the woman with the yellow umbrella and gives chase, but ends up running into Marie Sebastian, a nurse that offers to help. This then leads to Arthur aiming his shotgun, and shooting . A man holding a tire iron leaves an elevator and a woman and another man greet him; the woman grabs the tire iron from the man and uses it to smash the man in the stomach and he crumples over in pain before stabbing the woman with a box cutter and slitting her throat (the woman holds her hand to her throat as blood throbs from it, collapses to the ground and a pool of blood is seen around her body and she appears to die as the two men watch). Apart from bringing new life to 2003's Oldboy in Spike Lee's remake, Brolin and Olsen's pairing are at the center of the Thanos and Scarlet Witch beef, which was one of the most anticipated confrontations during the MCU's Avengers era. Chaney is basically both characters while Adrians bodyguard is a woman named Haeng-bok; she has very few lines and doesnt do much besides fight and hold an umbrella. The guy kidnaps Joe's daughter and gives him 48 hours to figure out who he is and why he hates him so much he locked him up for 20 years. The plot for Zinda is almost identical to the storyline of Oldboy. Thanks for ruining the ending you worthless sack of shit. And while bettering himself in the process he aims to find out why he endured his confinement. Sometimes these emotions can mix in a volatile way that can cause us to seek revenge over one another. Its entitled Zinda. It was directed by Chan Wook-Park (who also did the screenplay). I recommend trying.. The remake chooses to hint at several of the most memorable elements from Oldboy 2003 with teases to those beloved scenes a common tool across modern movie remakes of old stories. A man tells another man that a school must have learned that a man was having sex with his teenage children, forcing them to leave the school and the country; the man implies that because the man was wealthy that no legal issue was made of the relationship. By the end of the film, its revealed that Arthur is having sex with both Amanda and Adrian. Manisha, the little girl, claimed that she was their deceased daughter Suman, who had died of typhoid at the age of 15 on December 14, 2000. Its powerful cinema indeed. Adrian Doyle Pryce adds more rewards to Joes release in Oldboy 2013. A woman with a bruised eye and a cut lip appears to have her hands bound over her head; we learn that the woman is a paid actress and see her wipe away the black eye and cut lip. Shot over the course of three days in Oldboy 2003, the hammer/corridor sequence has no hidden cuts and is actually shot in one-take, unlike other movies that use tricks for one-shot scenes. Having fulfilled his revenge plot that was so long in the making, Lee Woo-jin takes his own life feeling that he is now finally satisfied. What's different in the Oldboy remake also makes it unique, andit remains a worthwhile piece of cinema living in the shadow of a great piece. Joe neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. [24] Brolin has also said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he prefers Lee's version of the film, though it is not clear if this cut will ever be released. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for both 2003 and 2013 versions of Oldboy. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. It is both one of our best strengths and greatest weaknesses, as while rampant emotions can lead us to doing things that we may later regret, without them, we lose a huge chunk of what makes us human in the first place. For Oh Dae-su, a man that was just utterly demolished mentally, physically and emotionally, he did not have the strength to endure his life with the knowledge of the truth. A man watches a television news reporter announce that a woman had been murdered and we see a sheet-covered gurney (a small amount of blood is seen on the sheet) wheeled away; the reporter announces that the woman had a daughter, and we see a small girl being handed to an older woman; the man becomes very upset when the reporter announces that the police believe that he had murdered the woman. Over the next 20 years, Joe quits drinking and works himself into shape, intent on escaping and getting revenge. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. Oldboy 2003 is a classic piece of Korean cinema, and it was remade in 2013 by Spike Lee. movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original, movies that use tricks for one-shot scenes, how series/movies use incest for plot twists, Why Park Chan-wook Has Disowned His Debut The Moon Is The Sun's Dream, WandaVision's darkly comedic use of a sitcom-within-a-series, movie featuring both Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen, Why Zombie Scarlet Witch Cant Defeat Ultron (But Wanda Could Beat Thanos). A man grabs a woman's upper thigh and makes a series of crude remarks asking her to have sex with him; the woman promptly turns him down and her husband overhears and is visibly upset with the other man (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). InParks Oldboy, this is the point where Dae-su begs his heart out. FB: JunkoGodaFanPage and instead of just one person committing suicide the dad shoots his daughter . He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. Young Woo-jin was portrayed by Yoo Yeon-suk, who played also played Ji-tae in the 2012 fantasy-romance film A Werewolf Boy . "I want to eat something alive," he explains. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. Related:How Inside Man: Most Wanted Connects To The Spike Lee Original. "[35], Justin Chang of Variety said that "Lee and Protosevich have made a picture that, although several shades edgier than the average Hollywood thriller, feels content to shadow its predecessor's every move while falling short of its unhinged, balls-out delirium. Emma Tustin, 32, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 29 years at Coventry Crown Court on . However, Joe wakes up one day to find the mouse and her babies gone, and sobs over her disappearance. While the ending is portrayed as being potentially happy, it is far overshadowed by the truth that the most positive ending for these two is to never know that they are actually related. A man walks into a teen girl (his daughter's bedroom), the teen girl goes to unbutton her shirt in a suggestive manner, the man then goes into a room with a teen boy (his son) and the teen boy then unbuckles his pants in a suggestive manner. Before he gets locked away, Joe isnt a good father. As in, this last self inflicted act of stupidity on your part was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back? He offers Joe some of his popcorn but disappears once Joe happily reaches for some. 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