@deanduncan63Saw Park’s #Oldboy. Quite astoundingly resourceful & imaginative, & all so as to contrive that its protagonist have sex w’ his own daughter!
#Oldboy. Oedipal variations are obvious. Actually cites The Count of Monte Cristo (wronged ex-captive preparing his vengeance) …
… But Sophocles gives us hubris & fatefulness, & the nobility that can attend our falling …
… Dumas considers perfidy, then anoints it w’ forgiveness (his ch. 35 notwithstanding!). How exactly does this brutality edify us?
#Oldboy. Greece & France? maybe those unrelenting Jacobean revenge dramas are more apt precedents to Park’s concoction …
… Or, just as/even more likely, all this comes of S. Korean concerns of which I am completely ignorant.