rey-wan-kenobi:

rewatching stoker and thinking about the handmaiden, park chan-wook’s movies are all about guys overestimating how easy it is to manipulate young women and we the audience implicitly go along with that assumption until ¾ towards the end of the movie or more where both the male antagonist and we the audience are shocked to discover that even when we’re inches away from a woman’s face, we’re not even close to guessing her inner life or motives, and it’s fucking great