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tell me you haven't seen Old Boy without telling me you haven't seen Old Boy
by khimaros 1y ago
tell me you haven't seen Old Boy without telling me you haven't seen Old Boy
- tialaramex 1y agoOldboy is fiction. The two children in Grave of the Fireflies are fictional, but they're standing in for a tremendous number of real Japanese civilians killed by these events - in some cases literally starved to death. The Americans really did drop incendiary devices on those cities to burn homes to the ground, in our real world. You can certainly make an argument that it was somehow "justified" but it's a terrible thing to have done even if you're quite sure that it wasn't a war crime (which I am not).
- FuriouslyAdrift 1y agoGrave of the Fireflies is "semi" auto-biographical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_...
- randomNumber7 1y agoI actually have seen old boy and it is an order of magnitude less disturbing.
- bigyabai 1y agoOldboy is a well-made film, but absolute pulp. It's disturbing in a Silence of the Lambs, manufactured drama sort of way. Your adult amygdala should probably not be disturbed by it all that much.