People (podcasters mostly) will tell you that the backlash to strong women in workplace leadership is because of “Woke 1” or “fake email jobs” or “girlboss culture” This nearly 50 year old South Korean film makes it clear that rhetoric is pretextual nonsense, papering over some pretty naked and obvious sexism.
Splendid Outing rests easily with surrealist identity crisis films like Lost Highway, as Freudian dream logic pervades Chairwoman Gong’s journey from a Master of the Universe to a lonely and abused island bar woman.
Playing on the anxieties of an entire generation of Korean women, anyone watching can feel their powerlessness within this system.
Seductively filmed with lush colors. The film is a beautiful nightmare.