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The Awakening
Why this pick
Shared genres: Drama, Thriller.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2008 1h 28m KOR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Eun-yeong is a young woman who finds her beauty to be a curse, drawing unwanted attention from all kinds of men and making other women jealous. Nevertheless, she leads a relatively content life until she is raped by one of her stalkers, Seong-min, who then blames Eun-yeong for the incident, saying, "I did it because you're so beautiful". Traumatized by her attack, Eun-yeong tries to destroy her beauty, first by attempting to become obese, and when that fails by making herself unattractively thin. When her beauty does start to fade, she becomes alarmed and tries to regain it by wearing gaudy make up and revealing clothes, her behaviour increasingly destructive and unstable. A policeman, Eun-cheol, watches her downfall with pity and sympathy, but eventually he too submits to his lustful desires.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Lee Chun-hee
Eun-cheol
Kim Min-soo
Seong-min
Choi Moo-sung
Detective Kim