A Girl at My Door (2014)

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Avg Rating: 4.2 / 5. Voted: 74

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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.

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Chu
Chu
July 17, 2023 7:28 am

Lesbian shit!

Shinzengumi
Shinzengumi
April 18, 2023 3:11 pm

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.

Shinzengumi
Shinzengumi
Reply to  Shinzengumi
April 18, 2023 5:03 pm

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.

Janson
Janson
Reply to  Shinzengumi
July 29, 2023 6:02 pm

Why do idiots like you think that every movie has to have characters you like in order to enjoy it?

Richard
Richard
January 17, 2023 2:39 pm

Love smashing in a 12 year olds back door

Shinzengumi
Shinzengumi
Reply to  Richard
April 18, 2023 3:19 pm

I heard the actress is called “So Yung”

Tristen Bailey
Tristen Bailey
July 5, 2022 10:58 pm

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.

Thinas
Thinas
June 25, 2022 8:21 am

I love this

Matisse
Matisse
May 27, 2022 10:26 am

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.

Matisse is a whore
Matisse is a whore
Reply to  Matisse
May 27, 2022 8:35 pm

Suck my balls…

Matisse
Matisse
Reply to  Matisse is a whore
May 28, 2022 12:59 am

Oh Allie, you really are pathetic 🙂

Janson
Janson
Reply to  Matisse
July 29, 2023 6:03 pm

Welcome to effedupmovies

prezzy
prezzy
Reply to  Matisse
March 27, 2023 10:48 pm

only reactions ya gunna get,,, wat you bloody on about,,, again !!

falaodnfax
falaodnfax
May 27, 2022 2:02 am

great movie….fucked up but great movie all together

Aurelia
Aurelia
May 12, 2022 8:50 am

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

BadMovieJoeisTarded
BadMovieJoeisTarded
April 30, 2022 11:28 am

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.

jabliz1
jabliz1
April 20, 2022 6:18 am

I was really hoping at the end, that Yong-Ha, the father, was going to scream out, “She came on to me!”

Carina
Carina
April 12, 2022 7:26 pm

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.

Bad movie joe
Bad movie joe
Reply to  Carina
April 12, 2022 8:34 pm

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”

Carina
Carina
Reply to  Bad movie joe
April 13, 2022 12:10 pm

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.

BadMovieJoeisTarded
BadMovieJoeisTarded
Reply to  Carina
April 30, 2022 11:32 am

Joe can’t distinguish because he is retarded

Shan Eyes
Shan Eyes
Reply to  BadMovieJoeisTarded
June 20, 2022 10:09 pm

He is a dunder head.

Shan Eyes
Shan Eyes
Reply to  Bad movie joe
June 20, 2022 10:07 pm

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.

robin
robin
April 12, 2022 1:48 pm

BEST FUCKING MOVIE EVER FUCK YEAAAA

Mao's Bad Hair Day
Mao's Bad Hair Day
Reply to  robin
July 29, 2022 6:43 am

Love your enthusiasm.

Blaze
Blaze
April 11, 2022 6:28 am

Not bad but I still think Hope was alot better and definitely way more emotional that movie made me tear up a few times

Bad movie joe
Bad movie joe
April 6, 2022 5:52 pm

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.

Woken
Woken
Reply to  Bad movie joe
April 15, 2022 3:01 pm

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!

wetardedJoe
wetardedJoe
Reply to  Woken
April 30, 2022 11:23 am

It’s all because of the so called “justice” system in the United States. It makes bank making everyone a criminal.

UrWeTaRdEd
UrWeTaRdEd
Reply to  Bad movie joe
April 30, 2022 11:20 am

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

Dmt_Perception
Dmt_Perception
Reply to  UrWeTaRdEd
April 30, 2022 4:26 pm

Do the world a favour & learn to string a coherent sentence together…

UrWeTaRdEd
UrWeTaRdEd
Reply to  Dmt_Perception
May 1, 2022 10:55 pm

Do the world a favor and Seppuku with him.

Dmt_Perception
Dmt_Perception
Reply to  UrWeTaRdEd
May 2, 2022 9:28 am

You watch too much anime little boy…

Mike James
Mike James
Reply to  Bad movie joe
May 7, 2022 1:19 pm

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.

Janson
Janson
Reply to  Mike James
July 29, 2023 6:04 pm

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!

Lucy
Lucy
April 5, 2022 12:02 pm

That was a ride

joe126
joe126
April 4, 2022 12:43 am

I once had soju thinking it was water. Took a big gulp. Damn.

Mike the Tramp
Mike the Tramp
April 3, 2022 6:12 pm

One of the best here. Hits hard. Thanks. Highly recommended.