In viewing Oldboy I found myself drawn to the idea of self-viewing. This image reappears throughout the film: Oh Dae-Su’s hypnotism at the end of the film, his ‘watching’ his own memory self run around the campus of his school, even the motif of incest plays to this concept to some extent (who is more like the self than a relative?).
The biggest question, to me, is how does one gender self-viewing? Can one self be male, and the other female, as seems to be implied at the end of Oldboy? Is self-viewing scopophilic? Voyeuristic? Fetishistic? Narcissistic? One can read self-viewing in so many ways, that it can’t help but brings the very concept of how we analyze the gaze into question.
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