Meanwhile, Adrian fakes televisions longest running crime program just to get inside Joes head in Oldboy 2013's ending not unlike WandaVision's darkly comedic use of a sitcom-within-a-series. A third major fail was deconstructing the fantastic hallway fight scene into a senseless, story-less jumble. Dear (Lousy) Mother, First, don't be so quick to call yourself a lousy mother. After all, neither of the characters attempting to get revenge in the film have good endings. Mr. Han is Lee Woo-jins right-hand man that fights for him and protects him at every turn, like how the infamous Luca Brasi served Don Corleone in The Godfather. Related:Malcolm X True Story: What Spike Lee's Movie Changes & How Accurate It Is. If You Liked 'Parasite', Check Out These 20 Other Great South Korean Films, The 10 Greatest Classic Film Noirs, According to Reddit, This Spielberg Movie Only Made a $1 Box Office Profit, Zombies in TV & Movies Ranked by How Likely You Are to Survive Them. But make no mistake Oldboy is all over the place, sometimes playing like a subdued melodrama and elsewhere erupting into flamboyance and gore. Did you know you can now filter searches by any combination of ratings? A man begs another man to kill him, the man refuses and the first man holds the gun under his own chin and shoots himself in the head as the other man watches (we see a spray of blood hit the wall behind the man along with small chunks of gore as it drips down the wall); the man's body is seen collapsed on the ground. Junko lives in Los Angeles and is an actor, consultant, Japanese/English interpreter and translator in addition to being an equestrian and mounted archer, who peruses the aisles of the local Book Off (Japanese second hand bookstore) for her next manga discovery. [37], Eric Kohn, in a largely positive review at Indiewire said: "It's been so long since Lee made such a thoroughly amusing work that fans should have no problem excusing its messiness. When he finds himself in solitary confinement in a prison cell . However, Joe wakes up one day to find the mouse and her babies gone, and sobs over her disappearance. If so, too bad. 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. The most noticeable difference between the two films while the main character is imprisoned is what they write on the paper provided to them in the hotel room. 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. through the culturally critical eye of a POC. I, think this is a revenge film, just Lee's revenge film. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. Young Woo-jin was portrayed by Yoo Yeon-suk, who played also played Ji-tae in the 2012 fantasy-romance film A Werewolf Boy . 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. Meanwhile, he puts himself back in the motel jail and has hidden camera feed of his daughter in the room. It contains a whopper of an ending, and it's difficult to discuss the movie without giving anything away, but it contains extremely mature sexual themes, a sustained sex scene, and some nudity (female breasts and bottom, male bottom). Know when new reviews are published We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time, We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. Since Joe wins Adrians game, he receives the $20 million in diamonds. Reassure the child that you know they will have a hard time with the day, but that it's okay to be sad sometimes. Meanwhile, in 2013's Oldboy, Joe catches Adrians sister Amanda having sex with their father Arthur at school. Touching Mi-do is all that's mentioned in Oldboy 2003. 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. Joe neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. Again, the movie makes it unclear if Oh Dae-su actually found the hypnotist or if it is just a way to project his own attempts to block the memory, as the next scene shows her nowhere to be found and instead, he is laying in the snow where Mi-do finds him and confesses his love for him. 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). A man smokes a cigarette, we see a woman smoking a cigarette, a man smokes and chews on a cigar. In 2013's Oldboy remake, Joe masturbates to a woman using a thigh master in Oldboy 2013 and its stretched out to have them groan and mutter, Yeah, to each other awkwardly. Vincent Parker told investigators that he killed his 57-year-old mother, Carol, and 55-year-old father, Wayne, inside the family's Norfolk home on Dec. 19, 2013, according to his confession. Thought Id save you at least a little more frustration by letting you know that). When Joe and Marie return back to the motel, Marie takes a picture of the yearbook photo where it now returns back to just "Adrian Pryce". In order to fully answer the question of what's different in the Oldboy remake, as well as to understand why Spike Lee remade Oldboy, viewers need to know the history behind the Korean thriller. The big problem with Lee's "Oldboy" is that for all its dark confidence, it doesn't reimagine the original boldly enough.This isn't like Martin Scorsese's "Cape Fear," David Cronenberg's "The Fly" or Jonathan Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate"or the recent superhero-inflected version of "Carrie," which I liked better than most criticsall of which drastically rethought their inspirations. Thus, the cycle of revenge moves into full effect. The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. The movie title screen had 20 tick marks instead of 15. She compares it to ants being in groups and lonely individuals always thinking about that, since they only have themselves to keep them company. Just as Chaney is about to beat him savagely, the Stranger calls Chaney and offers to pay him for Joe's release, and Chaney lets them go. - NibblyPig Aug 24, 2016 at 14:51 Add a comment 1 Answer Sorted by: 1 Adrian shows Joe that Marie is really his daughter and that he had engineered events to this point to make Joe feel what it is like to lose everything. After he is suddenly released, he goes on a mission to find the person responsible for his imprisonment, later discovering that his life is still caught in conspiracy and torment. Of course, Oh Dae-su reaches for the remote, but upon pressing it he finds out that the remote actually turns on a loudspeaker that plays audio of him and Mi-do having sex. Shawn Rounsavall is charged . A man opens a box and discovers a human tongue, and a woman looks in the box and cries out in horror. Im also assuming that my readers have seen the original, Korean version of Oldboy. Did you know that theres a Bollywood remake of Oldboy? Joe goes to Adrian's penthouse, defeats Haeng-Bok, and confronts Adrian. The ending of Oldboy gives a false sense of happiness and closure to viewers. A man lightly kisses his wife on the cheek. The Spike Lee joint is making a resurgence on the streaming giant, coming in at sixth . His unseen captors provide him with food, alcohol and hygiene items, but do not explain why he is captive. Synopsis: Joe Doucett, an advertising executive, is kidnapped and held prisoner for twenty years in solitary confinement. The plot for Zinda is almost identical to the storyline of Oldboy. Be aware that while we do our best to avoid spoilers it is impossible to disguise all details and some may reveal crucial plot elements. I recommend trying.. This write-up will be chock full of spoilers which will save you a lot of time and money. Shes horribly teased by all of the students afterwards. Yes, you heard me right: a dad that spies on his daughter from a small jail. Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review. 44 min. Additionally, Oh Dae-su is given five days to figure out Lee Woo-jins identity to coincide with the death of Lee Soo-ah. In Oldboy 2013, Joe Doucett is an alcoholic but is never arrested; instead hes shown ruining a big meeting by hitting on the woman of a potential client. It is a happy ending only if you have the willpower to ignore the truth of the situation and allow Oh Dae-su and Mi-do to live in a lie that has been meticulously crafted for them. Oldboy | 2013 | R | - 8.9.8 Remake of the 2003 Korean revenge thriller about a man (Josh Brolin) who was kidnapped and held captive in a motel room for twenty years. Joe spends a great deal of effort to determine if any of the men on his list are the Stranger, but they all prove to be innocent. He offers Joe some of his popcorn but disappears once Joe happily reaches for some. Lee Soo-ah commits suicide because of it. This thriller is not available on all streaming platforms, so let me tell you where to watch Oldboy 2003. Oldboy was also remade in 2013 by director Spike Lee, though it was seen as a mediocre reinterpretation that failed to add anything substantial to the narrative. Release Date 11/21/2003. A man tells another man that he will give the man a video of him killing the man's ex-wife and raping her (as he is saying this we see black and white clips of the man, 20 years younger, ripping the underwear off a woman and then choking her); the man begs the other man to stop and the other man explains that he will produce a signed confession for the murder of the man's wife, as well as the man's kidnapping, if he solves a riddle, but if he is unable to solve the riddle, he will murder the man's daughter; the man forces the other man to watch footage of a woman being tortured and a man is shown standing behind her (as if to rape her) while the woman is bound and gagged. Director Park Chan-wook Cast Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Yun Jin-seo, Kim Byeong-ok, Yoon Jin-seo Rated R Runtime 120 min. 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. Oldboy is a South-Korean thriller movie based on a Japanese manga series. 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). It was directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich, the film stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. 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