Old Boy and spirit, or lack of

There is no goodness in the movie Old Boy. Oh Dae-Su leaves its private jail after fifteen years and does nothing to help a man willing to commit suicide. He will have the opportunity to kill his tormentor, Woo-jin, but, because he would lose the chance to know why he was incarcerated, doesn't do that. His friend No Joo-hwan's death would be avoided if he had.

Woo-jin is the psycopath who jails Oh Dae-Su. He has killed his wife and supervised his daughter Mi-do's upbringing. He hypnotizes both in order to have them become, father and daughter, lovers. His loathsome plan fullfills itself: it is a revenge because Dae-Su had gossiped to the school where they had studied that Woo-jin and his sister, Lee Soo-ah, had had sex. Soo-ah commits suicide then, which is the occasion for Woo-jin to allow himself to become a psycopath.

Once everything happened, Dae-Su just wants to forget and resorts to the same expedient that had him fustigated: hypnosis.

These stories of extreme-grade manipulation remembers me of Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist who lived in a nazi concentration camp and lost wife, parents, brother and friends, but left the place to love his fellow human beings. There is spirit beyond the "repugnant desires to moral which were imposed to us by nature" (Freud).