- "About Kim Sohee" shares the investigation that follows the death of a high school student.
- Doona Bae plays the policewoman who discovers the terrible working conditions that the girl was undergoing.
- This strong work distills discomfort without the slightest gore effect.
Korean cinema is not just graphic violence as in the recently released Wolf Hunting Project. About Kim Sohee by July Jung, discovered at the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, bullies the viewer without ever showing him a drop of blood by simply diving into the world of work in South Korea.
The investigation into the death of an intern, a high school student driven to suicide by harassment in a telecommunications company, is largely as traumatic as an escalation of gore effects. "I wondered how it came to this," says the director. I needed to understand the reasons for this tragedy made all the more revolting because those responsible did not hesitate to overwhelm the victim to clear customs. »
A dull anguish
The heroine, an investigator played by a Doona Bae vibrating with indignation, rebels against a degrading system. His investigations reveal a ruthless world in which teenagers are crushed in general indifference. The tension rises over interrogations that plunge deeper and deeper into an ordinary horror. "Just reproducing a reality in a very authentic way can cause fear," Jung said. The dull anguish it distils is tinged with revolt at the tragic fate of a girl destroyed by cruel adults.
The original title of the film is Next Sohee. This very hard work gives hope that this virulent denunciation will help prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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