As You Stood By | Official Trailer | Netflix
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It's about domestic violence, how it affects all levels of society, how obvious signs are ignored and how victims are sometimes so traumatized that they cannot help themselves and even resort to suicide.
Sluggish and tedious, but we've got a complicated murder story, plus the whole psychological aspect that at least partially compensates. Story about two women dealing with domestic violence. Our girl, Jo Eun-Su, has seen signs of it around her all her life but trained herself to ignore it. That works till the day she encounters a middle-aged woman at her job in a high end department store. The woman's back is covered with bruises, she has obviously been beaten. Our girl helps her with the zipper but doesn't do anything else. Shortly thereafter the woman commits suicide by jumping in front of her husbands car. Now our girl feels guilty for not speaking up.
Her best friend from school, Jo Hui-su, is very pretty and small, and she has married well. Her husband is making bank in finance, but he is a real scumbag who beats the snot out of her on a regular basis. Our girl reconnects with Hui-su and realizes her plight. She mentions this to our hero and he makes an off hand remark that she should kill him. Now we are off to the races.
The two gals concoct a plan to do away with the slime-ball husband, and what a scheme it is. Anything this complicated you just know is going to have problems. The slime ball husband dies twice in the first three episodes, but both times turn out to be fantasies.
Our hero, Jin So-baek, runs a grocery distribution warehouse and has a private mahjong club upstairs. He is established, connected and understands people. He steps in at several critical junctures which are really wonderful.
In a bit that is too incongruous to believe, the slime ball's mother, Ko Jeong-suk, gives talks about the evils of domestic violence, completely oblivious to what is going on with her son and daughter in law.
Her daughter, Noh Jim-young, is a political climber on the police force. When her brother disappears her reaction is not find out what happened, but to conceal it and hope that nothing comes out to derail her pending promotion. Yeah, a whole family of scumbags.
Curious bit about the villain. The same actor plays the husband and the warehouse worker hired to impersonate him. Our girl notices the remarkable resemblance, and so does my wife, but not me. To me, they looked completely different even though both characters were played by the same actor.
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