It begin with the gloomy tragic and ended with nothings but a vain and empty emotions of one who waited for 15 years for a perfect revenge. There is no better words to evaluate this movie, only a perfect and absolute crystal appreciation is required for the viewer.
"To sow the wind and reap the whirlwind."
Ever day we interacts with so many people that we don't even realized, although it looks normal yet the consequences of our every actions and decisions carrying messages one another in forms of psychical relations, and the words goes back to where it was stared just like a boomerang. It might come back with a friendly favor OR maybe a huge cancer that can swallow your life.
In Korea there is a old saying "To sow the wind and reap the whirlwind."
Just like this saying an accidental decisions might come back with a irrevocable ending. The movie" OLD BOY " bluntly unfold the concept of this huge interaction in other word called
"revenge"
Oh dea -su Incarnate for 15 years. who put him there and why?
He is a sloppy and clumsy breadwinner never care much about what things happened around him, he spend his most of the day in drinking alcohol, just living day by day as long as he could. However the dramatic incident- that he locked away for 15 years without knowing the reason.- happened to him was so unimaginably brutal compare to that tedious daily life. He was even interrupted to kill himself do death, the only things he informs of the outside world is by television. The unknown revenge toward Oh dea-su was just a beginning