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User Reviews for: Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

Catsy
CONTAINS SPOILERS5/10  4 years ago
There is so much to unpack about this movie. There are some really powerful and great scenes but it is completely diminished by the decision of the writers, because I KNOW it's different to the book. Big old spoilers here.

The music is nothing to write home about.

The camera shots are repetitive and boring. The audio in some scenes is also dubbed in, but its louder than the rest of the dialogue. The casting in this movie is also awful. Eunyoung is older than jiyoung and jiseok is over 30 years old. Eunyoung looks like she's 25 and jiseok looks 20. Jiyoung should be at least 37? What on earth.

Jiyoung is a mother married to a man with a 2 year old daughter living in an apartment. Every day she kind of just cleans everything, raises her daughter and goes out, while her husband works. He is the most passive, unloving bastard and a pathetic excuse for a husband. He believes his wife has a mental condition and chooses to hide it and imply there's something wrong with her, even embarrassing her in front of his family.

She is last person to find out.

This is meant to be a movie addressing some feminist issues for South Korea and I guess because its new for them they beat you over the head with it. Where characters say, why don't you wait for a man to marry you, why would you want to work again who said you could do that?, and I only chose men because women get married and have kids. Some scenes are powerful and subtle. Her father victim blames her for being stalked, she addresses the fact that she can't visit her family on holidays because they always visit her husbands family.

In one particularly disgusting scene, her husband begs her to cook him food and then they talk about how his parents are forcing her to have kids. He then says they should do it now and she'll feel better, like he's a child and she's his plaything. I cant tell if this is part of what we are addressing. We are meant to accept that this is okay behaviour because there is one scene where she comforts him telling him she's OK now and he looks scared and sad.

There are a few other scenes at her husbands workplace that are so throwaway. The men moan about depression and taking paternity leave being the death of their careers. And someone installs a camera in the womens bathroom. This is like real life where no one brings it up with the victims to protect the men I guess, until it's too late.

In the end when jiyoung's story gets resolved, it seems like it could have happened any time. Her former boss offers a part time role for her and she works from home writing a novel. She finds help for her mental health problem, but it's so pedestrian it doesn't match the issue she is going there for. Was working from home never an option for her?

The message of this movie is: Only mentally ill women want to address the prejudice they face in their daily lives.
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Reply by MoazNasr
5 months ago
I fail to see where the husband was unloving. he was just a regular dude doing his best, not an easy situation to be in
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