Eun-yi (Jeon Do-yeon), a pure woman like a blank sheet of paper, longs for the aristocratic life of the upper class. She came to a mansion to apply for a maid position after working part-time in a small restaurant with a graduation certificate in early childhood education. The owner of the mansion, Hoon (Lee Jung-jae), is a nearly perfect man who plays the piano well. He and his wife Hela (Seo Woo), who is pregnant with twins, his 6-year-old daughter Nami, and the housekeeper Bingxi (Yin Ruzhen) are the most important members of this family. After passing the interview, Eun-yi began to live under the same roof with them who were strangers. Hoon, who was kind and elegant to the servants, quickly attracted Eun-yi's attention, and the latter gradually envied the life of the hostess. One day, Hoon took his family to the villa for vacation, and started a seductive physical conversation with Eun-yi behind his pregnant wife's back. Eun-yi was addicted to this dangerous and happy taste. The relationship between the two was gradually noticed by Bingxi, and this originally harmonious family began to drift with an inexplicable sense of tension. Eun-yi and Hoon's relationship eventually failed to be hidden from Hela, and their intertwined desires led to an unmanageable ending. One-line review: Jeon Do-yeon and Lee Jung-jae's stripping scenes and dialogues were bold, and they were more exciting when they were not stripping than when they were stripping. The elements and tension of foreshadowing that are unique to suspense thrillers are relatively lacking, but the actors show the out-of-control desire vividly. - Chosun Ilbo Delicious, full of black humor, but too pretentious, "The Housemaid" is a smart but empty remake of the 1960s film of the same name. - Daily Screen "The Housemaid" is further evidence that South Korea is making some of the best films in the world today. - Roger Ebert Behind the scenes The 2010 version of "The Housemaid" is adapted from the 1960 work of the same name by the late director Kim Ki-young, telling the story of the heroine who finally came to an aristocratic family as a maid in order to climb into the upper class and had an affair with the male owner. The film invited actress Jeon Do-yeon and sexy actor Lee Jung-jae to play the male and female protagonists of an illicit love affair. The extent of their passionate scenes made the Korean media compare "The Housemaid" with Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution". In addition, Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo, and Yoon Yoo-jung all performed exposed scenes around the bathtub with different emotions, so it became the focus of attention from the beginning of filming. After the male owner in the film committed incest with the maid, he wrote a huge check as compensation. In order to protect her status and rights, the wife pretended not to know. The mother-in-law sacrificed her daughter just to firmly control her son-in-law, and the housekeeper sat on the mountain and watched the fight between the tigers, constantly reaping benefits (her son had just become a prosecutor, and she was also qualified to enter the power game). Their meanness will inevitably raise the audience's blood pressure. Society is not only simply divided into upper and lower classes, but even maids are divided into levels. The Housemaids Who Make People Love and Hate: A Microcosm of the Old and New Society in Korea The film takes the mother-in-law and the old housekeeper who do not exist in the original work as the main characters, and the plot is completely different from the original work. In the film, Eun-yi played by Jeon Do-yeon and the housekeeper Byung-seok interpreted by Yoon Ru-jeong are the representatives of the two major factions of the lower class in the social background at that time. The former came to the big family with a purpose, intending to use her own strength to set off the foundation of this aristocratic family. As her inner rebellion increased, she played the whole family in her hands more and more; the latter is a typical housekeeper, with an old and weak character, afraid of death and mean. She knew that Eun-yi and the male owner were having an affair, but she did not report it and just watched the changes on the side, and then secretly told the fact and the truth of Eun-yi's pregnancy to the male owner's mother. The male protagonist played by Lee Jung-jae reflects the hypocritical side of the male chauvinists in the society at that time. He looked down on the servants in his heart, but taught his daughter with a double-minded attitude: Only when you look up to others, you will be higher. Director Lim Sang-soo said at the press conference that rather than looking forward to the erotic scenes, he actually hopes that the audience will focus on the human rights issues of the so-called lower class people and the struggle between the powerful and the powerless in modern society as reflected in "The Housemaid". "The Housemaid" depicts the twisted and dark side of human nature. It is a family ethics film that tells the story of mutual contempt among members but maintaining a deformed balance. The original work depicts the story of people from different classes who satisfy their desires in their own different ways, but ultimately fail. In the remake, each member hates each other and tries to put each other in shackles by despicable means. Through the expressions and lines of each character, the director sends a message to those who have fallen.