A Good Lawyer's Wife

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Audience Member I didn't like the movie at all. Though, the postman was a psycho for killing the innocent boy. The laywer was a cheater making his wife do the same... Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/09/25 Full Review Alain E I am not Korean nor I have ever visited. This movie is trying to tell us that behind Samsung and Hyundai there is a dying society. I am sorry but I am not buying it. There is a lot of drinking, smoking and f…ing. A scene of hematemesis (look it up if you are unfamiliar with the term). The same person, an end stage alcoholic, also undergoes an abdominal paracentesis and in the throes of hepatic encephalopathy sings a nice song honoring Kim il Sung. There is nice cinematography and good acting, but my impression is that this is a contrived exercise. Available on Tubi with ads for online casinos. I suspect that someone who watches this movie is very unlikely to spend any time playing on line blackjack. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/06/25 Full Review Noisy A A dark and cheeky exploration of humans in a realistically complex world. You know your neighbours are like this right? Stylistically filmed and lit. It is an essay exposing how chaotically random everyone's normal actually is, in the shadow of the ROC's mass killings that prompted the invasion from the north. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/26/25 Full Review Audience Member This story about a horny housewife seeking intimacy feels jaded and plays only for shock value! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Boasting some of the most striking scenes of graphic nudity and intimacy ever presented in a Korean film, A Good Lawyer's Wife is a compelling and dramatic look into the lives of modern South Korea's 386 generation. As with so many modern films about life on the peninsula, the film is both an insight into the intricate gender politics of the Hermit Nation and of it's people's inability to cleanse themselves of their past. Focalised from the point of neglected mother and wife Hojung, director Im Sang-soo pulls no punches with a distinctly pro-femanist outlook on the circumstances surrounding his protagonist and her relationship with her self centred lawyer husband who in the midst of working on a case regarding a mass grave containing the remains of Korean war veterns, helplessly careens toward the same path of alcoholic self destruction as his father before him. The destructiveness of the Lawyer's drunken philanderings with his mistress, coupled by the subplot of Hojung's own affairs with a high school drop out inevitably result in violence and tragedy. Equally as graphic as the sex scenes is the degree of realistic violence which seems to pervade every single plot twist; be it a fist left bloodied from smashing a mirror, the harrowing and sombre death of the lawyer's father or the domestic violence which signals the final severance of family ties. Ultimately, A Good Lawyer's Wife seeks to outline the mascline problem of 'symbolic loss' through the Lawyer's inability to mend his self destructive ways and the horrific treatment of Korean women through Hojung's tumultous journey to the dark heart of human sexuality. Whilst Kim Ki-Duk undoubtedly offers a far stronger exploration of these themes (and he does so without baiting the sensors) this is certainly worth a look if you're not easily offended by full frontal male/female nudity or gender related violence. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member The film is realistically dark. I feel like being messy into a troubled family's life. I enjoy the film except the gross scene that the upset drunkard throwing the adopted son onto the ground! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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