Thread: **Spoilers** If you saw the twist from miles away...

Well I have only seen it once, and I originally wrote Sweden in my post, but when I checked with the OP and they said Denmark, I assumed I was wrong (apparently wrongly). Sorry.

You do see the wife in the 1st photo (with the baby), but don't forget she was murdered in the 1st year of Dae-su's imprisonment. Anyway, I'm just throwing that idea in for people who "saw the twist coming" to consider :) Having said that, I believe Dae-su to be Mido's father. I'm just arguing that the evidence isn't conclusive, and it's Dae-su's own fear that convinces him.

Umm... no. I never even knew Oldboy had a twist, and I knew next to nothing about the movie. I just heard that it was an amazing film and that I should check it out, so I did. Pretty simple. I thought the same exact thing in the sushi restaurant scene. The second she said, "You look familiar," I thought, "That must be his daughter." Of course, I had no idea their relationship would become sexual. Some people...

Pjhllnd, But he can also see (I think) his wife in that family album ;-) GoddamUnvoicedAbbot, Best points about movies relying in just a “twist”… I also enjoyed Oldboy and not specially because of the “twist”. Drastic83, Ok. Nice "twist" of my argument ;-) Just because they have both changed so much in 15 years, if they look familiar to each other, they could, (must?) be relatives…?? Mmmmh. I think Dae Su sais...

To retort, it should go without saying, everyone has their own views/opinions. It was not my intent to insult you and do not take it personally. In case you didn't notice, we're talking about the twist here. If you guessed it was his daughter early on thats not what we're talking about. If you saw the twist coming, something is seriously wrong with you. How you could have forseen Woo-Jin had taken in Oh Dae Su's daughter,...

"It's the scene where he walks into the restaurant and she begins serving him octopi and they both remark on how familiar they look to each other." You're wrong. You don’t get enough clues which would lead you to the twist from that scene. This is what happens in the restaurant. In the sushi restaurant, Mido says "You look familiar, have we met before?", and then Daesu says, "...

But i wouldn´t trust any "prediction" based in such "loose" terms. Well, obviously any prediction of this sort HAS to be loose; nobody SCREAMS in the movie that Mi-Do is Dae-Su's daughter. However, this is the kind of movie when you watch it again after knowing the twist you see certain scenes that were put in for foreshadowing's sake, little "hints." I noticed the hints, though...

I don't have a daughter or sister so... Mind you, I thought that the girl was going to turn out to be his daughter BEFORE they started having sex with each other. I disagree that there is "ratioally no way to see this" coming. There are several hints throughout the film. In all honesty, I thought it was fairly obvious, from the very first time they meet and she feels like she has seen him before. You don't need to...

Glad I could make yer day Marv ^_^ It's easy to see the future when the past just keeps repeating itself -Kalsu

Honest truth--my mother saw it coming. She has a bad habit of seeing these things. Didn't know there was a twist, is a preacher in her 60s so is not going to hear about films like Oldboy from anyone but me. But she called it. Out loud.