The final outside film that I watched that reminded me of the themes we discussed was the Korean revenge film "Oldboy". The film is extremely dark and stylized. The dialogue of the main characters is most often spoken poetry then straight dialogue. The film follows the imprisoned Diago who after 15 years of imprisonment is let go without any explanation. Diago attempts to solve the mystery behind his imprisonment and punish the men responsible. He goes to any length and puts his martial arts skills to the test to gain revenge. One of the major symbols in the films are ants. When imprisoned Diago often has vision of ants that coincide with the drugs we is given. Diago is forced to live a routine trapped in a room for 15 years. He notices the routine that is life and compares the people of the city to so many ants on a subway. The movie reminds me a lot of Blade Runner. It is very dark and distopian. It plays at the notion of what it means to live in a world without any morality. The final scene of the film in which SPOILER Diago decides to erase his memory in order to remove the guilt he felt also reminds me of the film eternal sunshine and the spotless mind.
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