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Too often, that is the case when we seek vengeance – whether it is on a personal level or on a geopolitical level. The injuries we have endured cry out for us to do something to avenge ourselves. But in the process of seeking that vengeance, we are likely to lose as much ourselves as those we seek vengeance upon. It becomes a cycle of revenge going back and forth until all participants and those around them are destroyed.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus spoke of retaliation: You have heard that was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you…if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also. Mohandas Gandhi said: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

In Oldboy we see just how terrible the seeking of an eye for an eye can be. (A tooth for a tooth takes on special meaning in this film – but I promised I wouldn’t tell you about those plot points.)
--Darrel Manson
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