A Girl at My Door

The movie is about the policewoman who is dislocated to the small S.Korean town/village after her personal problems (that caused scandal in her professional life) in Seoul.

The town, she settles in, is small; Everybody knows everyone. From the first look, the place looks peaceful with friendly, provincial locals. As she spends some time there, she spots disturbing issues that locals have not problem with. The town is so corrupt and blindsided that even the local police fails to act against it. One of such issues is with the underage girl who is under constant physical and mental abuse from the member of her own family.

So the new cop faces a challenge: do something against the crime, or not? What if doing the right means harming her image and personal life? The story further focuses on her decisions mixed with her personal struggles and problems with past relationships.

The story has plot twists and despite the slow sleep and somewhat mellow vibe, never bore you.

I gave the movie 7/10 and would call it a decent movie unlike my fellow countryman whose review I read about this movie :)

This is a movie about a female police chief who comes across a young girl with an abusive home life. She does what she can to help this girl. For the most part, with the exception of a few dramatic scenes and situations, that is the movie.

The movie wasn't bad it was just really slow in my opinion. I would have liked the young girl's backstory to have had a bit more depth, a relationship could have been better understood but aside from that the story was ok. It was well acted and well shot.

It isn't a bad drama and I thought it ended well. Not a bad watch.

A film about a woman and a child, one person is grown up and other is minor. None of them live in a safe world considering for what they are. So, they unwillingly and by the chance become mutually supportive. As it turns up, it's their choice for life. This is a very good film which doesn't follow conventional solutions because life is also unpredictable and can't be lived by book. It also doesn't play by rules of some abstract moral compas, which is good (and brave) choice. Especially when morality which should be on their sides obviously doesn't work for them. But they don't avoid making good choices, it's just they're not great, but are necessary. Yes, this is a film about abused women and betrayal they suffer even when they do their best. Two leading actresses are simply great. And film shows that today's outcasts deserve their chances too. And that's a great thing ...

Very sad film depicting the brutalization of a helpless child. She desperately latches on to a new authority figure in town a policewoman (Played by the great Doona Bae) to escape her personal hell.

Sae Ron Kim gives an outstanding performance as the troubled girl. So sad because we know this kind of thing goes on all over the world. This is just a Korean version, but could have taken place anywhere.

Doona Bae won the best actress award in the "Asian Film Awards" for her performance, so if you're a fan of hers, it is a solid performance.

There were some minor sub plots, that really did not need to be in the movie, but that is only a minor criticism. I would recommend the film, but not for the faint of heart.

There seems to be a lack of empathy in many ways. At first, I had high expectations because it was a film directed by Lee Chang-dong, but it felt slightly different from his films such as Mint Candy and Oasis. It looks like a kind of absurd play, it looks like a picaresque, and in many ways it makes you feel mysterious. To put it simply, I want to say that it is not a film that is easy to empathize with.