At first i felt he was jealous of her affair and wanted revenge but then i got the feeling he killed her because he felt she left there child home alone to go be with her lover. He being the parent with more affection for the child became angrier at this act more than the affair and kills her.
shareYou might have not put the spoiler in the thread title.
shareIt's a good question.
The answer maybe depends on the divorce laws and customs in South Korea - easy or hard? Who gets primary custody of the baby? Who pays child support/alimony?
I don't think he killed her because of jealous passion or even because he felt emasculated and humiliated. He seemed willing to accept the affair before she abandoned the baby.
The disappointing scene left out of the movie was their interaction the morning AFTER her lover spent the night (?) in his (their) apartment - and the conversation over where he and the baby were all night. Did he just lie and say he was at the hospital all night? And she didn't even try to call his cellphone with them gone???
He certainly missed her after he killed her, though - that old "can't have your cake and eat it too" moral.
I also wonder if he had successfully set-up the lover to take the rap for killing her? I would like to think so...
He killed her for 2 reasons:
The baby was apparently not his, so talk about adding insult to injury. So, if he had continued to play along, he would have eventually lost everything, whenever divorce inevitably came knocking.
The second reason is after the picture on the mirror scene, which made it clear he was aware of the relationship, she still continued her nonsense. Then she brings dude to their apartment?! Her behavior was a preview of what was to come - complete humiliation at his expense.
"Many have tried and failed?....No, Many have tried and died!"
I just watched it again - and caught a few things I missed the first time.
Her little comment to her lover as they were walking "will we die together?" I found interesting, as if she foresaw that only something very tragic was going to end the hell she manufactured for herself and both men.
Also, I think I now understand the husband's plan to frame the lover actually worked - as shown by the very disrespectful detective interviewing the lover (undershirt, no shoes - finally stating those arrest words like "anything you say can be used against you" (sic)) - which was equivalent to, indeed, dying with her.
Why do you think the husband might have known the baby wasn't his? Some dialogue I might have missed - or merely the supposition she might have been screwing the other man all along?
It also struck me this time just how much the working wife was acting so much like the cliche working male - who has a mistress on the side - and how she so abused her position of economic power to justify her cheating. (The "I work hard and you don't. I need some relaxation. I deserve this." attitude.) She also tried to be so clear to her "mistress gigolo" that this wasn't and would never be a "serious relationship" that she wasn't going to leave her husband - and yet kept sending all those mixed messages as so many men do with their own mistresses. It was all very unnatural which also forebode some tragic ending, I thought.
for some reason I felt disturbed by this ending
I AM a person about justice, hence why the richard geere movie "unfaithful" I was satisified that the latino guy got bashed in the head
but this?
for some reason I'm unhappy, I mean strangling the wife then having no mercy whilst stabbing someone THEN raising the baby like nothing happened
maybe i'm more of the "why not just kill the love instead" or shoot BOTH
and he cops in korea must be stupid, they were smart enough to know about the lover but no suspicious about the husband?
The cops were not stupid, remember how to the husband implanted the evidence in the lover's apartment.
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