This is not a happy family. Dad (Tae-hoon Lee) works a night security guard shift that makes it so he arrives home as Mom (Min-Kyung Kim) leaves to dry peppers in the sun the next morning. He wants quiet. She wants support. They ultimately sit in silence while eating. Their son (Kang Gil-woo) works as an aide for the disabled, driving around and taking care of patients on the way to their appointments. He doesn’t make much—at least not enough for a permanent place to stay with his fiancée (Kim Guk-Hee). Instead they spend their nights in cheap hotels, paying more than they’d like yet not enough to pivot towards a mortgage. It’s take-out dinners and quiet evenings, every day a repetitive reminder of the unavoidable monotony.
Rather than set this quartet up for better days, writer-director Seo-jin Yoon decides to capture their depressive malaise and...
Rather than set this quartet up for better days, writer-director Seo-jin Yoon decides to capture their depressive malaise and...
- 7/25/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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