Metaphors in Old Boys

Lyda 2021-10-13 13:05:26

"Old Boy" is a good-looking movie. Suspense, violence, eroticism, strange light and shadow are all indispensable, and there are metaphors that hypocrites like.
Put aside incest. The love between Daxiu and Mi Tao is the result of hypnotic hints. First of all. It was Wu who was implied to go directly to the restaurant where Mei Tao was employed after he was released from prison, and that led to a chance encounter that seemed to be love at first sight. Then Mei Tao, who was suggested to "love", fell in love with Wu under the guidance of the ringing of the phone and took the initiative to tease him. And Wu was also in a coma induced by the bell and was brought home by Mei Tao, so they began their love.
This is a love scam that was carefully arranged in advance by both the people and the Shang. Both parties thought that they were in love. But they didn’t know that this "self" was no longer themselves, but the self that was implied in the subconscious. When the mystery was revealed, Wu found that this is not love, but revenge.
If you look at it this way, it's just a paragraph Story. But I think it is a story with a metaphor. Through this metaphor, you can understand the truth of love. Love is the result of hints. The difference is that the hint in the real world is the person involved.
Let's rearrange the plot and put the enemy The conspiracy was stripped out, and the story began like this:
Wu Daxiu, a man living alone, walked into a restaurant and met the young and beautiful female chef Mei Tao. Looking at her slender and beautiful back, he couldn't help but tell a story about a woman. hot hand can not do sushi remarks (if this film is actually very suggestive, because in oriental medicine hot hand is cold hands and kidney and sex-related), and extremely weird swallowed a live octopus.
United States Tao, a young and lonely female cook, lost her parents as a child, and she often meditated alone in the subway until she had hallucinations. On this day, she received a man with weird words and deeds, age similar to her missing father, when she saw that man When devouring the octopus, he held his hand and said, "I am a stranger, and my hands are cold." With
cold and smooth hands and vicissitudes of eyes, they started.
Let’s take a look at this new story. As an old man living alone, he must constantly have all kinds of sexual fantasies about the so-called "baby teeth". A woman who lost her father's loneliness since childhood must also have fantasies about old men. These fantasies It is the hints they keep giving themselves, so this love is also the result of hints. The
story is after all a story, but in life, which love is not the result of self-suggestion? Hints are the basis of love before meeting, and hints are love. The motivation at the time of occurrence, the suggestion is the energy of the ongoing love, and love finally disappeared because of awakening from the suggestion.
At the end of the film, Wu, who understood the truth, asked the hypnotist to hypnotize himself again because otherwise he could not Love Meitao again. The role of metaphor is to explain the abstract thing with a more sensual description of the object. As a metaphor in the film, Wu's reason for asking to continue to hypnotize himself is obvious: otherwise he cannot forget that Meitao is The fact of her daughter. In reality, it is difficult for us to realize that love is the result of self-suggestion, so when the suggestion disappears and cannot love, we will not think of suggesting ourselves again, so we say that love has disappeared.
Since love is the result of suggestion , Then why don’t we consciously suggest that we have a love when there is no love, and voluntarily continue to suggest ourselves when love is about to disappear. The movie tells us: as long as the suggestion keeps on, there is more than true love. So we know the law of love, From now on, we can enter the free world of love. What we lack is only the hinting will and skills.

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Extended Reading
  • Krista 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    "Even if I am a beast, am I not qualified to survive?" — The most emotional sentence in the film.

  • Arely 2022-03-26 09:01:01

    4.5. Finally, I finished reading it intermittently. Like me, there must be very few who watched the US version first. Now I feel that the new version has nothing to say compared to the original version. I think Park Chan-wook is a dazzling maniac. Nearly ten paragraphs such as the corridor chop, back to school, and the end are so powerful that even if they are picked out alone, they will be given five stars, but incest is used as the fuse for the unveiling. The cycle of mutual grievances and revenge is actually a bit distorted.

Oldboy quotes

  • Mi-do: What should I pray for?

    Dae-su Oh: Dear Lord, next time let me meet a younger man.

  • Dae-su Oh: Erasing my memory and telling me to find the truth was cowardly. I won. So die like you promised.