![]() There is a lot of talk for Oscar recognition, but it is a handsome, clever film and the timing in the year is right - I don't see it being the first foreign language film to win best picture, but this is more to do with the system than with the film. Performances are strong across all the cast, but the turn from Song Kang Ho probably was my favourite as he was the most subtle and had the most space to shift across the running time. Technically the film looks great, and the director builds mood and tone well. This aspect is important for the direction of the later stages of the film, and adds sense to what happens and why, but it is interesting in and of itself. They are doing this at the expense of other working people just trying to keep a job, and the rich family could probably not care less about the 'truth' as long as their needs continue to be met. Although the family mock the gullibility of the rich family, it is not like they are stealing money from them, or somehow dislodging them from their position in life - no, they are just providing labour to them in exchange of comparatively low wages. There are lots of clever critics that can talk to you about the meaning and hidden depths of commentary from the film for me the key one was the falseness of the 'con' itself. The later develops do work better though when viewed in the context of the social aspect. In this the film engages, and I found it easy to engage with it on the basis of what was happening. Between the start and then, the focus is on the various twists and turns of the drama itself. As it plays out though, it keeps this assumption in the background, eating at the viewer as an idea, before then making it very relevant in the closing aspects of the plot. ![]() This is the basis for a film that starts out as a sort of con story, seeing the rich family as the 'marks'. ![]() A poor family see an opportunity whenever their son starts tutoring English for a wealthy family - if they can engineer it, they can each get one of the jobs within the household. ![]()
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