Lee-Woo Jin Old Boy

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In Old Boy (2003), Chan-wook Park asserts the power of suggestion, and how Oh Dai-su had such an impact with a very inconsequential comment toward Lee-Woo Jin’s sister “He seems to have filled whole notebooks with his offenses against various people, yet he never thought of this.” Chan-wook gives light to this in every instance where Lee-Woo Jin’s incestuous relationship with his sister is brought up as it (“raises an important point. Usually, the worse a transgression, the more a character is motivated as a result.”), where instead Lee-Woo Jin seems to be wanting revenge over Oh-Dae Su for something that seems so inconsequential as a rumor. Such insane over-exaggerations on the part of Lee-Woo Jin bring up the major point of just how powerful