As always with Lee Chang-dong, the marginalized identity is perched at the center of interrogation—how they navigate a moral, often existential conundrum that is simultaneously born from and at odds with their marginalization (see 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 embittered battle between faith, economy, and motherhood or 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨'𝘴 Hitchcockian chase for the invisible woman as an inspection of hegemony between gender and class structures).
In essence, the marginalized character is given agency as a direct participant/accomplice/instigator of the narrative's central conflict without abandoning…
