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Did Cho Seung Hui Copied Park Chan-Wook’s OLDBOY?

By now everyone knows the name Cho Seung Hui — the 23-year old South Korean student who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech because, according to his own writings, he was tired of those “rich kids” and their “debauchery”. Of course, the fact that he just killed random people who didn’t even know who he was, much less his name, seems to discount his “motives” as just that — an attempt to have a motive. And we know Cho Seung Hui sent pictures of himself wielding his weapons and spewing profanity-laced “statements” to NBC News in-between his killings. Here’s the thing: everytime I watched those pictures he snapped of himself with his gun (and one with a hammer), I realized I had seen them before, and today, SkyNews figured it out: Cho Seung Hui was copying scenes from Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy”.

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