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”.

In “Oldboy”, a South Korena movie, a man is abducted off the street and thrown in prison for 15 years without knowing the reasons. He is suddenly released, and goes on a vengeance-fueled rampage, racking up an impressive bodycount, before meeting his nemesis, the man who imprisoned him — a young, rich, wealthy, and smooth man who was also having an affair with his sister.

And it’s occurred to me that Cho Seung Hui’s rants about rich people and their debauchery seemed to come straight from “Oldboy”, as if he was talking about the villain in the film, Woo-jin, while he was, himself, the hero of “Oldboy”, Dae-su, a put-upon poor soul who was unjustly “oppressed”, and who would eventually cut out his own tongue using a knife.

For more details on “Oldboy”, see its Wikipedia page here.

Worst, if you look at Cho’s poses in those pictures, those are all “movie” poses. Half of them looks like they’re from Chow Yun Fat’s movies. It’s bad enough everything one of these maniacs goes on a shooting spree that they blame the movies, but now they’re going to blame foreign movies. Get ready, folks, it’s coming…