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"Stop whimpering"
Kim Ki Young’s The Housemaid is considered a classic and is often included in the top South Korean films of all time. Evidently, I do not have a great eye for classic films. I was disappointed in the over-the-top melodrama and utter stupidity of the characters, not to mention the underlying misogyny.
Mr. Kim is reading about a man arrested for having an affair with his maid. Mrs. Kim finds this repulsive but Mr. Kim thinks it sounds reasonable as the maid caters to their needs and is the first person to greet a man when he comes home from work. (This children is what we call foreshadowing.) Kim is a choir director of sorts at the local factory where the women work and live in the dormitories. He’s given a love note by a young woman in class which he reports. Her best friend also has a crush on him and begins taking private piano lessons from him. Kim then asks her to find a housemaid for his family as his very pregnant wife is working two jobs to help pay for their new home. The new maid smokes which means nothing good can come of the situation.
What I learned:
If a woman smokes, it’s all downhill from there.
Kim Ki Young must think that women are all a bag of cats crazy and liable to do anything to land a man whether he’s married or not. They do not respect the sanctity of marriage. They are also so unstable they will commit suicide or threaten to commit suicide if thwarted!
All men according to Mr. Kim are thoughtless hound dogs, especially those of a certain age and only have young women on their minds.
A wife desiring a house is guilty of all sorts of negative qualities. She should be happy with a cramped, run-down apartment. And if the horrid woman works extra hard for a television set, well, that’s the final straw of bourgeois society and feminine greed. It doesn’t matter that she’s beautiful, kind, hard-working, supportive, gladly bears his children, and a willing, loving bed partner. Bitch.
If a woman takes her clothes off, a man HAS to have sex with her. He has no control over Mr. Winky.
Regardless of a person’s heinous, murderous acts, the family’s reputation must be upheld above all else. Even if more family members will have to die. And Mr. Winky has no problem having sex with such an unstable, violent person.
Women are willing to cry rape to get a man so never believe a woman. But do ask her to return for her piano lessons.
Repeatedly slapping women who get out of line without taking responsibility is fine.
If you have an unstable, murderous person calling the shots in a household be sure to have rat poison on hand where everyone knows its location. And if you are the director, cut to the box at least a dozen times. Goes beyond foreshadowing, more like fore-nagging.
If you are unsure if the audience understands how to feel during scenes, add overly dramatic loud music that breaks the mood.
The Housemaid was a wildly claustrophobic psychological horror film. In its own strange bat sh*t crazy way it was entertaining. Despite how angry the film and the ending made me, I gave it a generous score.
30 October 2026
Trigger warnings: Suicides. A rat is shown being killed by poison. Death of a child. Infidelity.
Mr. Kim is reading about a man arrested for having an affair with his maid. Mrs. Kim finds this repulsive but Mr. Kim thinks it sounds reasonable as the maid caters to their needs and is the first person to greet a man when he comes home from work. (This children is what we call foreshadowing.) Kim is a choir director of sorts at the local factory where the women work and live in the dormitories. He’s given a love note by a young woman in class which he reports. Her best friend also has a crush on him and begins taking private piano lessons from him. Kim then asks her to find a housemaid for his family as his very pregnant wife is working two jobs to help pay for their new home. The new maid smokes which means nothing good can come of the situation.
What I learned:
If a woman smokes, it’s all downhill from there.
Kim Ki Young must think that women are all a bag of cats crazy and liable to do anything to land a man whether he’s married or not. They do not respect the sanctity of marriage. They are also so unstable they will commit suicide or threaten to commit suicide if thwarted!
All men according to Mr. Kim are thoughtless hound dogs, especially those of a certain age and only have young women on their minds.
A wife desiring a house is guilty of all sorts of negative qualities. She should be happy with a cramped, run-down apartment. And if the horrid woman works extra hard for a television set, well, that’s the final straw of bourgeois society and feminine greed. It doesn’t matter that she’s beautiful, kind, hard-working, supportive, gladly bears his children, and a willing, loving bed partner. Bitch.
If a woman takes her clothes off, a man HAS to have sex with her. He has no control over Mr. Winky.
Regardless of a person’s heinous, murderous acts, the family’s reputation must be upheld above all else. Even if more family members will have to die. And Mr. Winky has no problem having sex with such an unstable, violent person.
Women are willing to cry rape to get a man so never believe a woman. But do ask her to return for her piano lessons.
Repeatedly slapping women who get out of line without taking responsibility is fine.
If you have an unstable, murderous person calling the shots in a household be sure to have rat poison on hand where everyone knows its location. And if you are the director, cut to the box at least a dozen times. Goes beyond foreshadowing, more like fore-nagging.
If you are unsure if the audience understands how to feel during scenes, add overly dramatic loud music that breaks the mood.
The Housemaid was a wildly claustrophobic psychological horror film. In its own strange bat sh*t crazy way it was entertaining. Despite how angry the film and the ending made me, I gave it a generous score.
30 October 2026
Trigger warnings: Suicides. A rat is shown being killed by poison. Death of a child. Infidelity.
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