Strangers From Hell - 2019 - 7/10
AKA - Hell Is Other People // Taineun Jiokida // 타인은 지옥이다
“At what point did everything go wrong?
“If I hadn’t come to this horrible place …”
Jong Woo moves from Buson to Seoul.
Everything is terribly expensive: meals, repairs, taxis, accommodations.
Especially accommodations.
Eventually he moves far out, to a run-down place called Eden Studio.
Empty, save for a gregarious manager, and a group of disreputable types.
Except … it’s worse, far worse.
Warning!! Subplot involves a serial cat killer.
This will especially resonate with anyone who has / had the ghastly apartment.
Cramped rooms, little to no maintenance, intrusive, creepy neighbors.
The home environment mirrors / bleeds into the workplace.
Yes, this takes a toll. Jong Woo grows angrier, stymied, and resentment simmers.
How much does the environment poison you? How much is innate?