And if that is not disconcerting enough, there’s Reiko’s almost pleading for punishment and scolding that verges on masochism.'ĮXCERPT FROM: Allan Fish at Wonders In The Dark. Katsuragi, mother, as if to replace her own deceased mother, thus bringing an incestuous angle into proceedings with her lover thus becoming a surrogate father. Yet it’s more disturbing still, in that Reiko begins to call Mrs. Mi-ran’s defense attorney, Sun-ho, is surprised to learn the only witness to the crime is Ji-woo, a teenage girl with Asperger’s.
She sees no problem in befriending a woman whose husband she’s sleeping with and feels no remorse when the truth becomes known. Korean Film Festival in Australia (2019) An old man suffering from depression is found dead, and his housekeeper, Mi-ran, is charged with the murder. What is unexpected is the callousness of its heroine. The flashback structure which unfolds, and the melancholy score, tell us this isn’t going to end up rosy. She and Katsuragi do begin an affair, but then she starts to intrude into his wife’s life and comes to befriend her when the wife helps her recover from pneumonia, not knowing who she was. When she meets a middle-aged man, Katsuragi, after his dog bites her, she sets out to win him, not caring about his marriage which, she finds out, is to a woman who has been unfaithful with a toyboy. She’s grown up with a cynical, forthright view of the world, but also doesn’t care about the consequences of her actions. 'It’s a psychologically turbulent tale, of a young woman, Reiko, in her early 20s, who has lived with an elbow deformity that means she essentially just uses her right arm.
