Oldboy Page #4

Synopsis: An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, Oh Dae-Su soon finds out that his kidnapper has a greater plan for him and is set onto a path of pain and suffering in an attempt to uncover the motive of his mysterious tormentor.
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Chan-wook Park
Production: Tartan Films
  38 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.4
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
2003
120 min
$637,778
Website
9,303 Views


Oh Dae-su.

My sister...

was no slut.

You must believe that.

You got rid of your bug,

so I had to come all the way here...

to eavesdrop.

That's why Joo-hwan is dead...

because of you.

Okay?

You bastard, I'm coming for you!

I'm going to kill you!

You son of a b*tch!

We're not open yet.

Come back in an hour, please.

This place was recommended

by someone with six gold teeth.

Mr. Park?

I had to move because of you.

To celebrate the occasion...

I installed a new TV.

Do you like it?

It's got so many channels. Great, isn't it?

Some prisoners don't want to leave at all.

You lived in a place like this

for 15 years, Dae-su?

After 11 years it felt like home.

Come on, I don't need your money.

My enemy's enemy is my friend.

We threw away the hand because it rotted.

I've missed you.

Bastard. You'll pay for this.

So why did you bring me here?

If I don't return after July 5, let her go.

While I was locked up here,

I remember someone visiting me.

What did that person do?

Was it three times?

I put a hypnosis-inducing drug

in your water.

Sodium barbiturate?

You're a genius!

WATERWHEEL HAlR SALON

That's nonsense.

Even though it was a Catholic school...

those rumors wouldn't have killed her.

There was probably something else.

Could she have been pregnant, maybe?

I really don't think Soo-ah was like that.

She was such a pure girl.

I know she never went with anyone.

But she did go out with someone back then.

Do you want to know who he was?

I haven't got a clue!

Choon-shim.

You knew Lee Soo-ah, didn't you?

Who was her boyfriend?

You don't know?

You silly cow.

You don't know...

because friendship means nothing to you.

Shut up.

Who would know?

Who?

Joo-hwan?

What?

Yeah, I know him.

But why would he know?

Yeah?

Really?

Okay. I'll call you back in a bit.

Well...

she said it was Joo-hwan

who told her the rumors...

and that you should know

more than anyone.

Ring, ring.

Move aside.

You'll get hurt...

if you get in the way.

OH DAE-SU

Good Lord!

You rascal. Put it out!

I'm leaving today for Seoul.

So just you leave me alone, missy.

You good-for-nothing!

You're Oh Dae-su, aren't you?

And you are....

I heard you're popular with the girls.

You know what rumors are like.

I heard you're really funny. Make me laugh.

I don't want to be tied to just one image.

Okay, there's this father and son.

They went to the swimming pool and....

See you later.

TAKE CARE,

FUCKHEADS OF YEAR 3, CLASS 3!

-Come on.

-Wait.

-Come here.

-No.

Come here.

Okay, okay.

Satisfied?

-Lift this up.

-No way.

-Lift it up.

-No.

What?

That tickles.

Give me those.

What are you doing?

Let me see.

What are you doing?

-Let me see.

-Stop it.

Go away.

Was it really Soo-ah? Are you sure?

I don't know her name.

I just know that she's in your class

and she rides a red bike.

Have a good trip. See you in Seoul.

Where are you going?

I've got a date with Choon-shim.

I'll kill you if you blab to anyone.

No way.

You got locked up for 15 years

just for saying that?

Is that such a crime?

"Whether it be a grain of sand or a rock...

"in water they both sink alike. "

That's Lee Woo-jin's attitude.

So...

what's the significance of July 5?

That's the day...

Lee Soo-ah died.

It's over now.

You were fighting for the truth...

not for revenge, weren't you?

Now we'll run away

where Woo-jin can never follow us.

I can't end it like this.

Vengeance has become a part of me.

But you don't even know where he lives.

"Like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter...

"like a bird from the snare of the fowler...

"free yourself. "

It is taken from the

Book of Proverbs, chapter six, verse four.

And Evergreen...

said he lives in a high tower.

So six and four...

must be floors.

Fourth floor.

Sixth floor.

Or the 64th floor?

P?

Penthouse!

Please insert the code.

What would you like me to pray for?

Wrong entry.

Please re-enter.

Wrong entry. Please re-enter.

"Dear Lord...

"please let me...

"meet a younger man next time."

Please make Woo-jin...

kneel before Dae-su...

and beg for forgiveness.

You slept with your sister.

Let's go upstairs and talk.

Get him!

You could just talk.

That was refreshing.

You slept with your sister.

So refreshing.

And I started the rumors.

That's why your sister died.

Looking in the mirror

reminds me of that day.

How about you?

Erasing my memory and telling me

to find the truth was cowardly.

I won...

so die like you promised.

Did you think you had forgotten that

day because you were hypnotized?

Really?

Do you know the real reason

why you can't remember?

It's because...

you just forgot.

Is that not exciting enough for you?

Well it's true, you just forgot.

Why? Because it wasn't important to you.

Your rumor got so out of hand...

that the next rumor was

that Soo-ah was pregnant.

My sister got sucked into that rumor...

and began believing it.

So her periods stopped

and her belly began to swell.

Fascinating, isn't it?

Imagine how it would feel for a girl

to carry a child who's her own nephew.

Do you understand now?

Your tongue got my sister pregnant.

It wasn't Lee Woo-jin's dick.

It was Oh Dae-su's tongue.

Is that why you killed your sister?

Imagine how a boy would feel...

fathering both his child and his nephew?

You were probably afraid.

Afraid that everyone would know

once the baby was born.

After you killed her, you realized

it was a phantom pregnancy...

so your hating me...

is understandable.

They said Soo-ah died alone at the dam...

so who took this photo?

And what about the date, July 5?

This is no fun.

I'll just finish what I was saying.

Listen carefully. My story is really exciting.

Ever heard of post-hypnotic suggestion?

You suggest something during hypnosis...

then it's performed in your wakened state.

Still haven't worked it out?

You let a stranger into your home.

Who the hell are you?

What about you, you bastard?

We hypnotized both of you.

One fortunate thing was that,

compared to others...

both of you were highly receptive

to hypnosis.

Isn't this fun?

One word gets you pregnant.

Another makes you fall in love.

But no matter how receptive

you two were to hypnosis...

and no matter how good

a hypnotist Miss Yoo is...

getting people to fall in love isn't easy.

Do you know how we did it?

Your first suggestion, of course...

was to go to that restaurant...

straight after your release.

Next, to react

to the mobile phone's ringtone.

When you heard this,

you were programmed to say something.

Who are you?

Do you...

Iike your clothes?

And Mi-do was programmed

to react to the man...

who would say this.

When she touched your hand,

your reaction would be, of course....

Your gravest mistake wasn't

failing to find the answer.

If you keep...

asking the wrong questions,

you'll never find the right answer.

It's not "Why did Woo-jin imprison me?"

It's "Why did he release me?"

Once again:

Why did Woo-jin release Dae-su...

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