The latest great fictional depiction of backwards induction is the Korean thriller Oldboy. Not for the faint of heart, but when the villain says (roughly) “You shouldn’t have been wondering why I locked you up. You should have been wondering why I let you out,” my jaw dropped.
Oldboy‘s not for the faint of heart, but you’ve got to see it at least twice.
Aug 31 2005
The first place I went for an economic assessment of the impact of Hurricane Katrina was James Hamilton's www.econbrowser.com, because of his expertise in energy. I was not disappointed. For example, he wrote, One of the questions I am almost always asked by reporters is, "will the price Americans pay at the pump go...
Aug 31 2005
Another installment in my continuing attempt to fight Gladwellian nonsense and to defend the use of economics in health care policy: Most people do not like to go to the doctor, undergo medical procedures, or stay in the hospital. Medical services are time-consuming, inconvenient, and uncomfortable to patients. An ec...
Aug 31 2005
The latest great fictional depiction of backwards induction is the Korean thriller Oldboy. Not for the faint of heart, but when the villain says (roughly) "You shouldn't have been wondering why I locked you up. You should have been wondering why I let you out," my jaw dropped. Oldboy's not for the faint of heart, bu...
READER COMMENTS
Roehl Briones
Aug 31 2005 at 9:15pm
I agree, that was one incredible film. The science fiction thing about hypnosis (to make a person fall in love) was a bit of a stretch, but you learn to gloss over it.
Even if the protagonist had wondered why he had been released, what good would that have done him in playing the game? Especially when he didn’t count on anyone playing tricks with his mind.
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