A Girl at My Door (2014)
AKA: Dohee-ya
Directed by: July Jung
Starring: Bae Doona (Station chief Young-nam), Kim Sae-ron (Do-hee), Song Sae-byeok (Yong-ha), Kim Min-jae (senior cop at the station)
Country: South Korea; Effed Up Asian Movies
Language: Korean; Effed Up Korean Movies
Runtime: 01:59:13
Genres: Cops, Lesbian, Domestic Abuse, Old-Young Relationships, Teen-Childhood, Human Trafficking (Illegal migrants)
Plot – Spoilers:
In a small Korean fishing town where most of the younger folk have packed and left for the cities, a young station chief Young-nam arrives. Her new posting from Seoul is a disciplinary move designed to take the heat off her sexuality. But Young-nam has something else in her closet. She’s an alcoholic who brings with her, crates of water bottles hiding booze.
Most of the time, Young-nam is a pacifist who prefers to lie low and not assert her position as station chief unless provoked extensively. One of the people in town out to bait her is Yong-ha, a young drunk who runs fishing operations and whom the older townsfolk depend on for almost everything. His position as the big frog gives him a certain blind confidence that he could easily pick up the new city chick with his crude mating dance. Though Young-nam tries to politely ignore him, she soon can’t, once she discovers that he regularly thrashes his step-daughter whom Young-nam feels instantly protective of.
A Girl at My Door is a very daring movie because it goes places where other films on similar topics rarely do. There are only grey people here, none are black or white. Not even the victim.
Lesbian shit!
Absolute disgusting lez-fest – very fan-servicey. Didn’t care about the lame ‘issues’ it brings up so I only watched it half way. Yeah that’s right! I couldn’t watch two women holding hands but I have no issues watching them getting chopped up! Not that I’m into it but it’s kinda cool cinematics. But this was some gross cringe.
Well I had to go back and finish watching it and I I can’t say I liked it – mainly because I didn’t like the main characters – but it’s definitely a very good and deep film. I think the ending was good and satisfying. I just found it an unpleasant film to watch because, as I say, the lesbian & pedo stuff is nauseating to me. But, kudos to them for going to places that very few have the guts to go.
Why do idiots like you think that every movie has to have characters you like in order to enjoy it?
Love smashing in a 12 year olds back door
I heard the actress is called “So Yung”
This movie is so damn heavy. I totally disagree with the bath. I believe the cop did the right thing up until that one point. If she had been a little more objective, alcohol notwithstanding, she would have never had to go through the accusations and confinement.
I love this
This film tentatively explores the damaged and debauched country noir of humanity, it’s polarising, uncomfortable, and coercively melancholic. Jeong Ju-ri focuses poignantly upon emotional instability, beautifully written and directed.
Suck my balls…
Oh Allie, you really are pathetic 🙂
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great movie….fucked up but great movie all together
first time i didnt like something that gets praised in the comments here :/ way too long and slow, this whole story could have been told in 80 mins
This movie was fantastic and showed how retarded Joe and the “justice” system can be. Superb acting on all counts here. Watch this you won’t be disappointed unless you just want gore then you will be.
I was really hoping at the end, that Yong-Ha, the father, was going to scream out, “She came on to me!”
I really liked tish movie! However, I don’t agree with the “all characters are grey” description.
The father of the girl was terrible in every way. The only reason to sympathise with him is when he’s falsely arrested of rape. The main character seems like a good person, I don’t find any reason to dislike her.
I read the comment above me stating that it was creepy off her to bathe with the girl, but she did not intend to. The girl jumped in with her, and she did not touch her in any way. There’s no indication that she’s a pedophile. She likes women, yes, but not children. I’m a straight woman and would not be aroused if a 12 year old boy jumped in the bath with me, I like men.
It doesn’t matter it’s called optics! She don’t have to be a pedophile that’s what she looks like. If you can’t understand that. You’re going to get yourself in trouble one day. It’s super complicated “oh there’s an abused child. I should call child protective services”
I know it is about optics, and the movie made sure to point that out in the interrogation. However, we as a viewer can distinguish between her intent and the optics.
Joe can’t distinguish because he is retarded
He is a dunder head.
You alluded that the station chief took the girl’s clothes off but she did not and you know it. You think you have a point to make but you blew it with your stupid post, the common “what if?” straw man scenario.
BEST FUCKING MOVIE EVER FUCK YEAAAA
Love your enthusiasm.
Not bad but I still think Hope was alot better and definitely way more emotional that movie made me tear up a few times
Part of me wants to feel bad for the cop. But I’m 99% sure you don’t just bring a kid in your home because you feel bad. Like it’s known you’re attracted to women and you bring a girl in your home. Quick question, I am a 40 year old man. What would yall say if I took the clothes off a 12 year old girl and gave her a bath? I mean come tf on lady you had to know what you look like.
Yeah, you can’t treat kids nice anymore, cause people will automatically think you are a pedophile. No matter if the kid has been trough hell you have to act as a robot. Especially if you’re a man: don’t you dare even look a kid in the eyes unless you want “Pedo” pretty much written on your forehead for the rest of your miserable life!
It’s all because of the so called “justice” system in the United States. It makes bank making everyone a criminal.
Pretty sure you are retarded. Plucked a straw about of this entire movie to make your retarded case. Do the world a favor and Seppuku. Won’t be missed
Do the world a favour & learn to string a coherent sentence together…
Do the world a favor and Seppuku with him.
You watch too much anime little boy…
If this happened in real life, an adult alcoholic lesbian taking in female child and takes a bath together would definitely be very suspicious in the eyes of the law. If it was an adult alcoholic homosexual male taking in a male child and bathing with him, it would be guaranteed he would face jail time. This was probably the weak point of the move, how easily she was released, but this is taking place in rural area and the laws doesn’t seem so strict, otherwise the child would’ve been visited by child welfare services. This was still a very good movie.
Oh no A BATH. OH GOD NO, NO NO NOT THE BATH!!!!! 🙁
Next time I’m at home depot, I’m destroying every bathtub I see. Disgusting groomers trying to sell us baths!
That was a ride
I once had soju thinking it was water. Took a big gulp. Damn.
One of the best here. Hits hard. Thanks. Highly recommended.