It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a well-made movie. Dilemma and irony resonate within the expected structure. The final blow strikes the viewer in the back of the head with a double-whiskering effect. It’s a movie that leaves a lasting impression and invites discussion. A movie I definitely recommend – * Ordinary Family -*Movie Average Family Review Reasons for recommending interpretation of the final ending of the original work (Spoiler O) The post starts right now~* (Please note that there is a spoiler at the ending, so I recommend you watch it. It’s a movie.)
Ordinary Family Director Heo Jin-ho Starring Gyeong-gu, Jang Dong-gun, Kim Hee-ae, Soo-hyeon, Hong Ye-ji, Kim Jeong-cheol, Choi Ri, Yoo Soo-bin, Byun Jung-hee, Park Sang-hoon Released on October 16, 2024.
Ordinary Family: Inciting Incident
Jae-wan (Sol Kyung-gu) and Jae-gyu (Jang Dong-gun) are brothers. Jae-wan, the older brother, is a successful, well-paid law firm CEO. His younger brother Jae-gyu is a pediatric surgeon at a university general hospital.
One day, the third generation of a wealthy chaebol drives a supercar and drives recklessly. The driver of the car behind him is enraged by the third generation of the chaebol’s dangerous acrobatic driving. Despite the child’s dissuasion, he roughly passes the car in front. Stopping in front of the third generation of a chaebol at the crosswalk stop line. When I get out of the car and talk to him, the third-generation chaebol is scolding me with a mixture of insults and ridicule. With a stance full of archery power that says, “What can someone like you do to me?”, the other person, a former baseball player, takes out a baseball bat from the trunk of his car. And right away, the bonnet of the third-generation chaebol’s car was lowered without hesitation. The third generation of chaebols reflexively say goodbye. He crashes his car into the opponent ahead of him at full speed. The opponent is hit by the third-generation chaebol’s car and dies immediately. The child in the opponent’s car is seriously injured and is taken to the hospital. The third generation of a chaebol is devastated by what he has done. And this provocative incident becomes the beginning of this movie. Jae-gyu is in charge of treating a child brought to the hospital by Jae-wan, who is in charge of defending a third-generation chaebol. Ordinary Family: Jae-wan vs. Jae-gyu
The positions of the two are sharply divided. Jae-gyu has the image of Hippocrates, who believes that treatment comes first rather than paying hospital bills. As if reminiscent of Professor Lee Guk-jong, in front of Jae-gyu, who follows faith, honor, and other things as his mission as a doctor rather than money. Jaewan asks for a favor. Try to convince the child’s mother to agree. Who would be the one to suffer if they don’t reach a settlement and go to trial? Jae-gyu is astonished when he hears Jae-wan say that he will provide a generous amount of settlement money. “You do everything for money, right?” He criticizes Jae-wan. He despises the immorality of his older brother Jae-wan, who makes money by exploiting the weak. Jae-wan is just cool-headed. On the street in front of the restaurant where they had a family gathering, Jae-gyu stands in front of it and lights a cigarette. The purpose of the family meeting was for Jae-wan, who was in charge of defending the third generation of a chaebol, to talk to Jae-gyu about persuading him to agree to a damage settlement. But more than anything, it was a meeting to decide on a place to live for his elderly mother. How long are you going to leave the care of your dementia-stricken mother to Je-su? Jae-wan said, “This is something I can’t even do to Je-su. Let’s send him to a high-end nursing hospital that costs 600 won per month. I will pay 500, and you will pay 100.” I can’t do that, how can I send my mother to a nursing hospital? Jae-gyu is angry and treats his older brother like an unfilial child. Jae-wan, driving his supercar, rushes at Jae-gyu, who was standing bitterly, thinking, smoking a cigarette, waiting for the driver. Jae-gyu is startled and avoids it. When asked what he is doing, Jae-wan says calmly. In this case, if you die, my crime could be murder or manslaughter, depending on which lawyer I use. Your sins as you stand on the road are not without. And this scene shown in the beginning is foreshadowed and connected to the ending of the movie in the end. The development of the movie is interesting, but it has an obvious structure, but it seems like it was hit with a punch at the end. This ending, with its twist, leaves a lasting impression on the viewer. (There may be likes and dislikes, but I think this one shot is the highlight of this movie.) Ordinary family: Hye-yoon and Shi-ho (deviance vs. crime)
There is an ending spoiler.
The two children are still students. Jae-wan’s daughter Hye-yoon and Jae-gyu’s son Si-ho. On days when their parents are out of the house for a family gathering, they drink and get drunk at a party for international students. They fight with the homeless people in the alleys instead of arguing with them. They do not see the homeless as people, and they brutally trample and beat the homeless who cannot resist, committing inhumane crimes. I end up committing. Their movements are captured on CCTV. This video takes the internet by storm and becomes an issue.
Although the perpetrator’s face is not identifiable and not revealed, parents can tell right away. Just by looking at the clothes and the silhouette, they can tell that this is their child. Parents are aware of the cracks in their daily lives in this incident where their children’s future is at stake. . There is an emergency. Jae-gyu, the idealistic younger brother, wants the children to embroider. Encountering strong opposition from Yeon-kyung, his utilitarian brother Jae-wan also says, “Let’s go and cover up.” Unfortunately or fortunately, the only person who remembers the perpetrator of this incident, the homeless victim, dies in the hospital… Since the homeless person died, there was no way to find the culprit. The only surviving family member was a sick and poor grandmother. Although it caused some public outrage, it was not a case that the police should use their full force. So is this the end?
Jae-gyu talks with his son, Si-ho, and sympathizes with the wounds that Si-ho suffered as a victim of school violence for a long time. He said that he didn’t die even though he was beaten like that, so he didn’t know that the homeless person would die like that, and that he knows that he did something wrong. , I shed tears of sorrow. Jae-gyu felt so sorry for his son. He decided that it was enough because he had repented, and that he would cover up his son’s sin and give him one more chance.
However, Jae-wan is shocked to see that his daughter Hye-yoon, instead of showing any remorse for the homeless man’s death, says that it is a good thing that he died, and only values her success in getting accepted to an American university. The car that her father said he would buy her if she gets accepted to an American university. Other than that, my daughter is out of sight. Is my daughter a monster? In addition, the video that Ji-soo gives to Jae-wan contains the entire conversation between Hye-yoon and Shi-ho, giggling, and each and every word is so shocking that no human being can dare to spit it out. Hye-yoon and Shi-ho’s personalities make Jae-wan think hard about what choice he should make for his child.
Jae-gyu, who had initially been reluctant to have them embroider, changed his mind by rationalizing that this was just the children’s deviation. Jae-wan, who had been trying to cover up for the children, woke up late and changed his mind to make them embroider before it was too late. We need to make children human, we argue.
As a result, the brotherly alliance, which was a community with a shared destiny for each of their children, was broken. Let’s cover Jae-wan, let’s cover Jae-gyu’s wife, and the agreement that was barely maintained by covering up like that has now finally become true to covering up Jae-gyu as well! All three of them raise a toast and it’s over now! At that exact moment, Jae-wan’s sudden outburst shattered the community of fate. Jae-gyu’s choice stands at the crossroads of life and death. Because he could not let his brother’s decision, who chose a fate different from his own, lead him to his son’s fate. ,With the paternal love of a father who saw his son’s tears… Jae-gyu drives his car towards his older brother, who is standing bitterly in front of the restaurant. If we cannot become a community, we are just enemies that must be eliminated. This is the only way to protect my son… Ordinary Family: Yeon-kyung vs. Ji-soo
Jae-gyu’s wife – Yeon-kyung and Jae-wan’s wife – Ji-soo. The strange tension between the two is also an important point in this movie. Jae-gyu’s wife, Yeon-kyung, is a talented freelance translator and is older than her husband, Jae-gyu. She is a perfect, elegant and cultured woman who has the tolerance and understanding of an older sister, easily takes care of her elderly mother with dementia, and handles both work and household chores. (But behind that appearance, she is a perfect woman. The raw, bare face is no different from that of an ordinary person.) Jae-gyu, the doctor’s husband, has a considerable sense of superiority in the moral appearance of working for a sense of duty rather than money, and he also has a sense of superiority. She shed tears after participating in a hunger strike program and working as a translator. She is the kind of person who prides herself on living a better life in the world than anyone else. Ji-soo, Jae-wan’s wife, has the least qualifications among these four people. Although she has various qualifications. However, in terms of social position, it is not an intellectual field. However, I am so young and beautiful that all such things are meaningless. And she’s even kind. She went to Jae-wan’s law firm to deliver rice cakes, caught his eye, became his remarriage partner, gave birth to a child in his palace-like house, lives as his wife, and is now a Cinderella princess. Trying to get along with her stepdaughter Hye-yoon. I try, but it doesn’t work out. In the process of resolving the incident committed by Hye-yoon and Shi-ho, he tries to express his opinions from an objective perspective, but is rejected by Yeon-kyung every time.
Jae-gyu and Yeon-kyeong are stable middle-class people. However, Jae-wan’s family is on a higher level. Yeon-kyung is secretly envious of Jae-wan’s family, who are wealthy and prosperous, but tries to compensate for her economic inferiority by self-justification, saying, “We are not snobs like you.” Jae-wan’s strange sense of loss mixed with youthful jealousy, which he cannot express openly to Jae-wan, is expressed in his behavior of ignoring Ji-soo, his younger brother-in-law. From Yeon-kyung’s perspective, Ji-soo is The fact that she has the youth and youthful beauty that she has already let go makes Yeon-kyung even more crazy. With the thought that it was nothing. (Personally, I can understand the emotional context, I am very annoyed, and I feel the most pity. Well, she is the most three-dimensional character.) If you remove the prejudice that Jisoo is a pretty girl who falls in love with a rich man, she is a very nice person. He is the one who endures the subtle attacks that Yeon-kyung pours in without saying anything, and looks at the situation with the most universal and general eyes among the four. Even when Hye-yoon swears at him, he cares about Hye-yoon’s future rather than his own feelings. He is a wise person who knows how to worry first. However, those worries are always marginalized in the frame of “You are a stranger!!” From Yeon-kyung’s perspective, she hates hearing every word Jisoo says to the point where she hates seeing them. It’s driving her completely crazy to judge this tragedy that has been thrown at us, a couple who has lived caring for an elderly mother with dementia and valuing things more precious than money…
To Yeon-kyung, Ji-soo is not someone who would be called an older brother, nor is she in a situation where Hye-yoon would acknowledge her as her mother, and she just took the place of mother by pushing her sister-in-law with her looks. She’s just that kind of person. She’s a woman who isn’t even “at the right level” to eat at the same table as the same type of person along the same lines as my noble life’s efforts. This woman is meddling as if it’s someone else’s business and it’s convenient?? Feeling? On the worse side, I’m angry at people who are younger and prettier than me, but I’m also annoyed at using that as a weapon to live in upper-class luxury in a more wealthy household than I am. I’m the only one who doesn’t have a direct interest in this tragedy. On the subject, how dare you give advice on this incident when you don’t even know how the parents feel when their child kills someone? How dare you?? Ordinary Family: Interpretation of the final ending (Spoiler O)
A catastrophe more severe than this. Is it true? The ending may be abrupt or may have crossed a line. But a movie is a piece of compressed poetry. Isn’t it?? The gaze directed at the subject is condensed and explodes. When Jae-gyu pushes Jae-wan with his car. From Jae-gyu’s perspective, many things pass through Jae-gyu’s psychology through this movie. He sticks to his principles and believes in more beautiful values than money. He was a noble person who valued self-esteem, and that was the only self-esteem that allowed him to not be shabby when comparing himself to his older brother Jae-wan’s upper-class life. At least, even though I didn’t have more money than my brother, I had the arrogance that I was far superior morally. Prejudice was supporting Jae-gyu, but his hypocrisy and desire were revealed in front of his brother. “Now you! You have a lot of money! Pretending to be a saint, you are taking away the scholarly work that I should have done??? Now? Live the way you used to live!! “Now??” His inferiority complex toward his older brother explodes in a frightening manner, coupled with his interest in his son. Jaegyu chose it. I would rather be the younger brother who killed his older brother than be the father of a son who killed someone. Furthermore, as my older brother taught me, all I have to do is hire an expensive lawyer and have him commit manslaughter. I will live like my brother once, and my anger exploded. What you said This is the way of life, teaching me. Even my son’s life is like this and that. How dare you, how dare you discuss morals and principles with me? To my son who was harmed, forgive the perpetrator. Jae-gyu must have been angry at his own hypocrisy and pretense, which he told you to embrace, and would have rather chosen me to stand in court than to have my son stand in court. People see only what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. There is a tendency to only listen, but if you look back and see everything until the end, Jae-gyu is a very emotional person. Jae-wan realizes that his son Si-ho’s tears were not sobs pouring out of reflection and repentance, but were crocodile tears. Even though it was all revealed in the video I brought with me, my son is reflecting and repenting and only believes in what he personally saw, heard and felt, and has made up his mind. The same goes for supporting an elderly mother. If you look at it rationally, everything Jaewan said is correct. Rather than leaving it to Yeon-kyung and irresponsibly cosplaying as a dutiful son, Jae-wan takes him to a specialized nursing hospital. Jae-wan’s words, “I will cover most of the money, so you only pay this much,” are much more persuasive. Let’s talk a little about Jae-wan. In reality, Jae-wan is a transparent and honest person. Originally, the profession of a lawyer was not one that implemented justice for the weak. It is the law of the court that anyone (no matter how guilty the criminal is) has the right to defend himself. According to the court, Jae-wan faithfully performed his job, did it well, and made money. “I’m not saying that’s what I think, it’s that’s the law.” A person who lives life with clarity, who is simple in everything and has no hesitation in following practical principles. He values the cause and respects the humane values of Jaegyu, but without any sense of entitlement. Jae-wan is a person who doesn’t even care about such things, as if someone is criticizing him and his wife behind his back. As such, Jae-wan is decisive and quick in his decisions. Compared to Jae-gyu, who becomes indecisive when he thinks with his head, once Jae-wan makes a decision, he is quick to pursue it. . Knowing that, Jae-gyu would have run at full speed, as fast as his heart beat. With this last shot, the complex inner self of Jae-gyu is put together like a puzzle. Choosing for your child vs. Choosing for yourself
It was a discourse to think about throughout the movie. First, Jae-wan and Jae-gyu, who came together after realizing that the perpetrators of the assault and death of a homeless man were their children. Jae-gyu asked them to turn themselves in. Jae-gyu’s wife, Yeon-kyung, said that they would never turn themselves in. They also covered it up. Jae-wan said, “Let’s go in the direction of leaving.” My feeling while watching the movie was that everyone was looking at this situation from the perspective of a parent, not a child.
To Jae-gyu, who lives his life based on principles rather than money, he knows his children’s sins, but is he cowardly enough to bury them? This doesn’t make sense. If he wants to keep the philosophy he has lived up to now, it is right to have his children embroider. Even if the line is drawn, choices that deviate from my values are unacceptable. Even if my wife objects, I have no choice. Even if he is a heartless father, he can’t help it. This is the right thing to do. I, who insist and do what is difficult to do as a parent, and who walks the right path, am a more mature person than others. My noble beliefs that even paternal love cannot pierce… (Of course, in the end, he is unable to get his child to turn himself in, and later ends up justifying it to himself. And it is a pitiful life in which he ends up taking revenge on his older brother, who walked that path that he could not…) Jae-gyu’s As for my wife, Yeon-gyeong, I am a doctor’s wife and a wise mother who supports my elderly mother with dementia, and I have built a family with moral goodness. I have done a lot of good things externally and even achieved my career as a translator. A stigma that will destroy everything in an instant. Absolutely not. The stigma of being a mother who gave birth to and raised a criminal. That terrifies Yeon-kyung. She says, “How can we put our child in harm’s way?” and says it’s for the child’s sake, but behind Yeon-kyung’s choice, there must be a defense against herself stirring. Jae-wan, too, was good at first. .It’s good for the child’s life to cover it up. (You probably thought there was no reason to throw ashes on the children’s solid lives by revealing it.) And it’s also good for you, Jisoo, and the new baby Sarang. It must have been a practical choice. Jae-wan would not have wanted to ruin the things he had done so far, the solid castle he had built, and since the word sin itself is relative, Jae-wan’s personality is to make it his job to make even the guilty seem innocent. Sang, embroider the children? This would not have been an option at all. Each person puts forward the justification of the child’s future, but behind it is the desire to prevent the things they fear within their own values. The truth that is rising like crazy can be felt in the air of the dinner. Among them, only Jae-gyu’s wife, Yeon-kyung, is single-minded and consistent in her insistence on covering it up. Jae-wan and Jae-gyu change their minds to cross, and at the last dinner, Jae-wan decides to embroider. Jae-gyu argues, and Jae-gyu disagrees about covering it up. Jae-wan was not a person with the honor of moral goodness anyway. After awakening, I declare that I will make this decision with painful determination rather than indecision, as it was a decision I made with the children in mind. This contrasts with Jae-gyu’s indecisiveness in wanting to have his son turn himself in, but not being able to do so. In the first place, Jae-gyu’s argument was based on hypocrisy for sticking to his beliefs, not painful determination for the sake of the children. (The expression ‘hypocrisy’ hurts my heart, but I can’t help it.)
The more courageous the necessary choice, the stronger the roots must be. The embroidery that Jae-gyu spoke of were words he made with his head (though they were words poured out of his hot heart, but they were real). The embroidery that Jae-wan spoke of were (a decision made calmly with a cold head, but it was real). Since it was a choice made with the heart, the power of choice that the two had would have been different in size, and that discrepancy would ultimately lead to a catastrophe ending. In the end, Jae-gyu put everything into the cover, and Jae-wan put everything into the embroidery.
In the end, we don’t know what will give children a better life or what is the right choice. It’s just a result theory. However, in the process, they have to take off their parental clothes (since they are parents) and only look at the child to make a decision. How many parents will be able to do this difficult task? What is the right choice? Parents who fight against their instincts and can self-censor whether this choice is 100% the best choice for their child. How many… Regardless of movies, even in real life, it is not uncommon to see families (parents) defending minor criminals who commit cruel and terrible crimes. To be honest, most parents are indifferent to the gruesome crimes committed by their children and are expensive. They hire a lawyer and do their best to cover up their children’s crimes. Is that psychology an expression of the parents’ irrational and absolute love, which instinctively tells them that they will never see their child go to prison? Or is it the idea that a child’s life is directly connected to the life of his or her parents, so he or she must protect the castle he or she has built up? In other words, if the child is destroyed, then he or she will be destroyed, so is this an instinctive defense to protect oneself? Are parents who want to embroider their children with their own hands rare? (As if he was eventually run over by Jae-gyu and died) Are they parents who cannot exist in this world at all?” In “Mother,” Kim Hye-ja’s mother also accused a motherless orphan of being the culprit and danced in a barley field for the sake of her child. What is this scary, maternal love, paternal love, this reality?
I don’t have children, so it’s not something I can say, but watching this movie made me think a lot. I still don’t agree with parents who only side with their children, but at least the context is a little bit like this… I think I felt some understandable points while watching this movie (since Yeon-kyung’s acting has a strong appeal…) Yeon-kyung is a three-dimensional character throughout this movie, but when it comes to her children, she always talks about being my baby. When Jae-wan said that he would make the children turn themselves in, Jae-gyu did it because he wanted to kill them, but he couldn’t bring himself to kill them. What was Yeon-kyung thinking? Ordinary Family: Reasons for Recommendation
As the story progresses, characters become visible. All stories in this world are stories about humans. Stories that allow us to consider humans. What more is needed? The inflection points of the characters that are revealed as new events unfold. It is fun to complete the story again at those inflection points. It is a very well-structured movie in terms of its script. It may be the power of the original work. Plus, the dilemma and irony seen within it. Human thoughts and choices that confront it. A lot of discourse passes by, and it is a movie with a lot to talk about after watching it. What if it were me? Even if it is not a premise, even if you look at it from a third party perspective, each position is understandable and fluctuating. That’s why it’s a painful and lingering movie. What choices a person makes is closely related to what kind of life that person has lived, and in that respect, the fun of the movie is doubled. The lives behind the characters’ movies Feeling and invisible psychology and life stories come to mind while watching the movie. Then, those thoughts finally burst out.
In terms of the character setting value established from the beginning, Jae-wan is like a guy who only cares about money, without blood or tears. Jae-gyu feels like a humanist of this era, and starts off as an opposing point of view. But the other side of the movie is like peeling an onion about the humanity of the two. I highly recommend it because the shapes that are revealed little by little in conjunction with the development are quite realistic and the internal details are good. As the only person who is not the children’s biological parent, Jisoo is able to look at the situation from the most normal and universal perspective. Irony. However, the dilemma of not being able to be objective about the baby I gave birth to because my stomach hurt, and the character Yeon-gyeong, who personally shows this with her crazy acting skills. Human hypocrisy and pretense are something that everyone has (just a difference in degree), and at what point does it become something? All humans agree that the evaluation of a person changes depending on what sticks out in focus, so rather than having superiority or inferiority in values such as what is right and what is wrong, it is a feeling of sadness, anger, and frustration. I also felt pity. It’s that kind of movie. Original movie Ordinary Family
It is based on a Dutch novel called “The Dinner” by author Hermann Koch. Although I have not read the original work, an excerpt from the “Minumsa” book review is as follows. Author Herman Koch is a Dutch national writer who has published a total of 11 full-length novels. He focuses on real society and psychologically elaborates the conflicts between characters. The reason why his novels become bestsellers is because they unravel and lead with fast-paced narratives, and the work “The Dinner” sold 420,000 copies in the Netherlands in 2009 alone, and that year It was selected as the 7th best-selling book in Europe. The work elegantly and poignantly points out acute social issues such as parental ethics, sibling conflict, adoption, and violence, and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and achieved copyright contracts in 55 countries. Review of the movie Ordinary Family
First of all, the running time is not boring, and there is a sense of immersion and speed. Incidents that pose a dilemma are thrown in, and ironic character structures are cleverly arranged to hold the audience with a problematic gaze, thereby filling in the gaps in the story that could have been obvious by creating a sense of character. It was a very good movie with detailed directing, acting, and screenplay. The organic structure in which events unfold, characters are seen, and the character’s tendencies create events was also very good. The original “The Dinner” As the title suggests, the couple holds three regular meetings. The simple and sophisticated cinematic style of showing the flow of events and the transformation of the characters in a concise manner at each meeting is also good. The final impact may be an ending that may be controversial, but I personally like it. It was an ending that felt like homework given to the audience to fill in the gaps between Jaegyu’s bursting jumps. As shocking as it was, I didn’t think the impact was bad as it gave me something to think about even after the movie was over. It addressed social issues in an elegant and poignant manner. … *After watching it, you will feel very sick, sad, and dumb. A movie that leaves you with a lot of thoughts like homework – an ordinary family. Recommended… *
Well then,,, a review of the average family of the movie, the reason for recommending the interpretation of the final ending of the original (spoiler o) I will end the post here, it got really long as I wrote it haha Thank you for reading~ Thank you for visiting today too! Then overcome the Monday sickness today haha Have a happy day I hope so. ** Photo: Naver still cut //