It's not a bad movie but I kind of hate it

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2019)

I'm starting off with something positive. The shots are very clever and Min-sik Choi's performance is great.
Now to the negative:
The women in this movie we're just props to be abused.
"It hurts but I will endure it for you" - sums up pretty well how Park Chan-Wook treats the women in his movie. For every mistake their male counterpart makes, Mido and Soo-ah are the ones getting punished and it is framed in a way that they really don't mind taking the fall.
Brother and sister have an affair and of course, as they face the threat of exposure, she is the one to kill herself with a smile on her face and "no regrets". And eventhough Woo-jin is the one who physically gave her his blessing to do so by letting her hand go he has the audacity to seek revenge from a guy, who said one sentence.
Speaking of said guy, Dae-su was the one who spread the rumor and his wife is the one getting killed.
Of course, Dae-su and Woo-jin suffer, arguably even more but they get to do so like human beings, grieving and making concious choices not being discarded like rag dolls. Even Mido, who survives this whole mess, doesn't get the choice if she wants to be with her father or not, Dae-su decides that for her and relieves himself of the guilt afterwards.
Bottomline: The women in this movie have no free will and Dae-su deserves the Father-of-the-Year award