South Korean film \"Old Boy\" plot:
The story begins on his daughter's birthday when Oh Dae-soo gets drunk and disorderly and is detained by the police. His good friend Zhu Hua came to the police station and took him home. But when they came out of the police station, bead Birch turned around and was on the phone when the big show inexplicably disappeared.
Overhaul wakes up to find himself imprisoned in an unknown room. He does not understand what he has done wrong, who he has offended, but he must be locked up here. A small television in the room is his channel to the outside world, and the daily delivery of fried dumplings is his only source of food.
When one day through the TV, he learned that his wife has been killed, the whereabouts of his daughter is unknown, and he is suspected of being the murderer. He had a nervous breakdown, hallucinations, and felt like he was covered in ants. At this point, Overhaul began to exercise, determined to revenge. And use chopsticks to dig holes in the wall to find a chance to escape.
But 15 years later, on the eve of completing his escape plan, he was suddenly released. I woke up on the roof of some tall building. Re-free overhaul came to a sushi restaurant, but just want to eat live octopus. After receiving a mysterious phone call, he suddenly fainted.
Heroine Mido is a young waiter in a sushi restaurant, suddenly appeared overhaul, so that she became interested in this appearance of vicissitudes of strange behavior of the man, she passed out on the table overhaul led home. In the process of investigating the truth of the incident with overhaul, two people fell in love.
By chance, in an investigation, a restaurant takeaway became a clue, because he had eaten food almost every day for 15 years. So he followed the delivery man to the place where he was imprisoned, rushed in and fought with the people inside, and learned that there was a mysterious person who paid a lot of money to keep him imprisoned here.
Later, overhaul to find his middle school is very good friends, the friend now open an Internet cafe, friends to help him find the address of the mysterious person, in the girlfriend of the United house next to the building. He found this house, in the room opposite Mido's house, and determined that it was the man in front of him - Li Youzhen, who imprisoned himself for fifteen years.
Angry Daxiu understood that he could easily kill this defenseless animal at the moment, and the price was that he would never know why he was imprisoned. Lee Youzhen agreed with him that if Dae-su came up with the reason for his imprisonment within five days, he would kill himself. Five days later, according to the memories of his former classmates, Daesu found the answer in his own middle school.
Unexpectedly found himself the object of revenge. When the truth came to light, Li Youzhen told another fact that overhaul was unacceptable. He wanted to give him a gift. This box was now in front of him. He opened the box and inside was a photo album. Full of pictures of his daughter.
Lee had a real plan for revenge. 15 years ago, he imprisoned Daxiu, secretly adopted Daxiu's daughter, and even released Daxiu, so that he and his daughter met under the unwitting conditions, and used hypnosis to produce love. Lee had a real plan for everything. There is only one purpose: revenge. Let the overhaul also feel the pain of being accused of incest.
And this box full of photos is also in front of Mido. In order not to let his daughter know the truth of the matter after being hurt and begged for mercy, and even cut off his tongue. Looking at overhaul like a dog begging, even for his own words and personally cut off his own tongue, he finally realized the strong pleasure after revenge, so under the overhaul finally begged, gave up the overhaul of the real identity tell Meidu.
Revenge is finally perfectly realized. The man who lived for revenge ended his life with his own pistol. And Overhaul can't accept his mistakes, and can't face his daughter. He asked the hypnotist to kill his old self, forget everything, and live again.
At the end of the film, Mido finds Overhaul in a snow field, and the two embrace each other. Big show grinning expression, that expression is not beautiful, eyes with tears, mouth open curvature can not say is laughing or crying. He may not have forgotten all this, but just expressed frustration at his fate.
Further information:
\"Old Boy\" is a thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, and Kang Hye-jung. The film was released in South Korea on November 21, 2003.