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The Housemaid
A suffocating erotic melodrama steeped in icy malice and silent despair, where aristocratic opulence serves as a gilded cage crushing an innocent soul like porcelain beneath polished marble.
The Housemaid
The Housemaid

하녀

"When Opportunity Knocks, Answer at Your Own Risk."

13 May 2010 South Korea 107 min 6.3 (395)

Director: Im Sang-soo

Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo, Youn Yuh-jung, Park Ji-young

Drama Thriller Predatory Class Stratification and Feudal Entitlement Bodily Commodification, Exploitation, and Female Agency Complicity, Servitude, and the Crushed Working Class The Façade of High-Culture Refinement vs. Moral Barbarism
Budget: $4,000,000

The Housemaid — Movie Quotes

Memorable Quotes

너, 참 더럽게 당당하구나.
— Hae-ra

Context

Spoken when confronting Eun-yi about the affair.

Meaning

Hae-ra expresses fury that a lower-class maid dares to stand upright and look her in the eye rather than cower in shame.

아기… 제 아기예요. 제 몸속에 있어요.
— Eun-yi

Context

Eun-yi's desperate declaration to Hoon and his mother-in-law.

Meaning

Eun-yi's declaration asserting maternal ownership and bodily autonomy against upper-class demands for an abortion.

아저씨는 나쁜 사람이에요.
— Eun-yi

Context

Eun-yi's final moral judgment leveled at Hoon.

Meaning

Stripping away Hoon's civilized veneer and naming him for what he is before the climax.

나 은이 언니 보고 싶어. 언니는 어디 갔어?
— Nami

Context

Spoken by the young child during the surreal final scene.

Meaning

Shows that only the innocent child retains memory and empathy for the sacrificed housemaid.

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