A rather depressed rant

So Oldboy, Park Chan-Wook's viscreal, haunting, mesmerising beast of a film is now being linked in the mainstream media s infulencing the fucker who perpertrated the Virginia Tech massacre. I feel for all the victims, their families and their friends and anyone hurt by this tragedy. I was apalled to hear of the events that happened last Monday. But now the British mainstream media has done something which while I can't say I am suprised by, I am depressed by. A likening of pictures of the guy to shots from Oldboy has been taken and ran with by not only the usual target the Daily Mail, but the BBC no less (on the 10pm news last night). OK, this guy may have seen the film, he may have thought the shots were cool and whatnot. But how out-of-touch can the media be? This film is about something quite different to what happened. I do not want to go through spoilers because this is a film, that if you are old enough and can stomach, should be seen. A likening of films to these tragedies is both lazy journalism and dangerously irresponsible. The fact that Oldboy does not feature any major elements involving guns has been suprisingly left off of reports of the "links". Indeed the Daily Mail was wildly off the mark when trying to find similarities between the events. Things like -

- The guy was Korean, so he could have seen a Korean film.

- Oh Dae-Su is locked up for 15 years. This guy was in America for 15 years.

- Oh Dae-Su cuts out his tounge. The guy was mute in his early years.

Ridiculous. Just ridiuclous. I am listening to a devate about this on Radio 5 at the moment where Mark Kermode is defending the shit out of the film industry against this nonsense. Thank fuck for that. He makes the point that in all these cases, whenever this happens, a link is found between the incident and a specific film. This time Oldboy. Next time, what?