mysogynistic?

Definitely not like that!

I interpreted it as the fact that she knew him, even for awhile, helps her through her life. Plus, South Korea is a conservative society; getting a divorce just may not be as easy as in, say, the US.

I also think the husband stopped with the abuse because of the whole episode with Tae-suk (not because she says "I love you"). Slant's reviewer seems to have missed that point.

You make a good point. I too felt the movie reduced the women to a victim with less of her own agency. Also I don't believe it is difficult to get a divorce in South Korea, as people have assumed.

Unfortunately people (not just women) accept or even put themselves into situations which are unhealthy, abusive and potential deadly in every country and culture; To me making an attempt to portray the reasoning behind this adds realism to the film. In the beginning it's hard to image a single reason why she would stay but at the end you see that however twisted (or even imagined) it may be there is at least one thing there for her.

I kind of thought that they'd run away together for good at the end when her husband left, but maybe that's just me. I didn't read all that feminist BS into it that's for sure.

He's definitely head-fu*ked. Every movie I've seen of this guys has women being beaten and raped in it.

The reviewer doesn't seem to have played close attention to the movie and should give it another viewing at least.

The delusional husband demands love and respect without giving it and instead uses violence in desperate attempts extract it from her. When she says "I love you" It wasn't for the benefit of his love or cessation of abuse, but just her expressing her feelings to Tae Suk. She has shown that she utterly doesn't care what Min Gyu thinks or fears him anymore when she finally physically retaliated by slapping his glasses off when he was being verbally abusive and molesting her again. I do agree that Tae Suk is pretty smug at times, but that might be more the actor's face than the actual intention of the character.

My read of the end was the possibility of her learning the same skill and the two can disappear together forever. She's shown that she is a quick to pick up on his methods like tweaking the scale. They don't have to continue living with the husband if they don't want to.

It's too simplistic to view his characters misogynistic. He is expressing a reality of oppressed women and he's not condoning it or actually hating women or supporting patriarchy. All the macho characters get some kind of teasing-mild form of retribution-from the main character.