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The Handmaiden (2016)

Film
DirectorPark Chan-wook
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Figures

Objects & symbols
  • The destruction of Kouzuki's pornographic book collection
Form & technique
  • The film's fusion of a British novel, a colonial Korean setting, and a global art-house aesthetic
  • The film's sound design, particularly the juxtaposition of reading voices, bells, and silence → The Unseen Soundscape
  • The film's three-part narrative structure that reveals and reframes information
Tropes
  • Adaptation of the story from Victorian Britain to 1930s colonial Korea
  • The erotic scenes between Sook-hee and Hideko
  • The hybrid architecture of Kouzuki's mansion
  • The alliance between Sook-hee (lower class) and Hideko (aristocracy) → National Allegory

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