Okay, well, Horrorthon 2019 is not off to a great start.Hae-won (Seong-won Ji) returns to her childhood home, a remote island inhabited solely by one family, after a series of professional and personal setbacks. She is initially looking forward to reconnecting with her childhood friend, Bok-nam (Yeong-hie Seo), but soon discovers that Bok-nam is being abused by her husband, brother-in-law, and extended family. Hae-won has turned a blind eye her entire life and been privileged enough to do so, but Bok-nam is tired of suffering and wants out.
I am so tired of the "snapped" woman counting as horror. I didn't like it in Delores Claibourne when I was twelve and I don't like it now. It positions women's suffering as something to be borne, something normal, and any kind of retaliation against an abuser is deviant, a horror. There's no catharsis, it's not somehow inspirational to see an abused woman fight back. The whole idea is bullshit, a way to fetishize women's pain and then balk at any pushback with "but she gets revenge! Isn't that what you broads want?!"
Hard pass but hey, it's streaming on Prime if you don't want to take my word for it.
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