Bad Villainy

A villain is a bad person, especially in fiction. Villains are the fictional characters, or perhaps fictionalized characters, in drama and melodrama who do evil deliberately and work against the hero. As such, villains are an almost inevitable plot device, and more than the heroes, the villains are the crucial elements upon which plots turn.
- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villians

I'd like to say that I enjoyed Oldboy, even if it did make me awful afterwards. Even if art doesn't give you absolute happiness, any kind of reaction should at least tell you the art had some purpose, right? I mean nothing is worse than completely irrelevant art that fails to make an impression.

I'd say that if I didn't fucking hate Oldboy, which unfortunately, I did very much. I really, really hated it.

Here is what happened to the villain (SPOILER ALERT!!!):
The villain had a sexual romp with his own sister, which the main character just so happened to find out about and spread around the school, ruining the reputations of both, and causing the villain to accidently let go of his sister, who was dangling off a bridge, because she told him to.

So obviously the villain is mad, and when villains get mad they do very strange things...like lock their victims in a room for fifteen years, hypnotize their daughters to become phenomenal sushi chefs, make the two unwittingly fall in love, have rompous sex, and then wait till the very end of the movie to tell the main character all of this, causing him to cut off his tongue and act like a dog. You'd think that after all of this the villain would feel pretty good about himself because he had orchestrated such a mammoth, 15 year project, which undoubtedly cost millions upon millions of dollars. But no, he shoots himself on the way down the elevator.

I'm sure it's much deeper than that. We never really learn how he has so much money. Neither did I quite grasp why the villain has a shower in the middle of his apartment which he likes to use quite often--TO CLEANSE HIS SOUL!--proceeding then to walk around naked for a while. He is quite a striking man, in that South-Korean-kind-of-way, so maybe the screen time for his ass is to get the asses in the seats, but I think they were trying to touch our souls.

But I'm tired of villains, and I think more people should be, too. There are too many horrible acts done in the world by perfectly sane people for us to need to create a completely evil being to blame them on.

But what I think is most imporant is for more people should read wikipedia. Why is it suddenly the savior of the internet, distributing out such high quality information for us to use in blogs? It's like the new Jesus without all of the saving your soul bit.