jacobean style : oldboy

The movie called Old Boy a Korean film written by Hwang Jo-yoon ,Im Joon-hyeong , and Park Chan-wook reminded me of the Jacobean style writing and characteristics. The film has a lot of the characteristics of the jacobean style such as violence, big time revenge, drama , betrayal in a sense and incest. The film revolves around a man named Oh Dae Su who was framed for the killing of his wife and locked in a room for 15 years. Oh dae su eventually feels a sense of insanity because of being locked in the room and not knowing why this is happening to him , he also uses the t.v to self teach himself boxing. He is then let free with money and given a clue to find out what really happen and clues to find out who did this.

throughout the film he kills and fights his way to the truth. An example of revenge would be near the end of the film where he finds the man who planned everything and confronts him. the antagonist name is Lee Woo-jin who not only jailed him for 15 years and found out he used hypnosis to orchestrated everything. While the hypnosis was in play throughout the film the cellphone was used to enact it by using certain phrases to trigger events and clues not only did he make Oh Dae Su have incest with his daughter but made him fall in love with her which all in the name of revenge.

Here a trailer to the film