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Like many Korean adult thrillers (such as Im Sang-soo's famed psychological thriller The Housemaid ), the film targets the vulnerabilities of the upper-middle-class household.

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Kim has cast two relative unknowns to heighten realism: Like many Korean adult thrillers (such as Im

The dynamic shifts drastically when Hyun-ah announces she is marrying Jingu’s father instead of pursuing a relationship with him, instantly transforming her status from a household employee into his legal stepmother. If stepfathers are struggling with authority, stepmothers in

If stepfathers are struggling with authority, stepmothers in modern cinema are struggling with erasure. The 2018 film The Miseducation of Cameron Post touches on this peripherally, but the definitive stepmother film of the era is Rachel Getting Married (2008). Anne Hathaway’s Kym returns from rehab for her sister’s wedding, but the real blended dynamic is between Kym, her father Paul, and his new wife, Carol. Carol is patient, decorous, and endlessly forgiving—until she isn’t. The film shows the immense, invisible labor a stepmother performs to hold space for a damaged biological child who rejects her.