“but total blood soaked slasher ending pretty much ruined it.”
That’s how it ended? Ugh. Now I’m really glad I turned it off after 25 minutes. I thought I could see what was coming with this movie and that was bad enough.
It ended with the son’s return to the house on nights and his father using Morse code... the son had thoughts anyone could have immediately in those moments that he would get rich and buy the house and everything would be fine... but the powerful statement is that those dreams of saving dad by becoming rich is in reality just a wild fantasy, and that while you think that you can do something and become rich is never going to happen. Dad is probably going to die in the “shelter* or be caught and imprisoned...
The number of the Son’s return to the home at night to watch the flickering lights as his father kept out in Morse code that he was eating German sausages and that the people in the house were away enough that he didn’t think he would get caught for a while.
The true reality is without already being a graduate of a top college and having already a great paying job the remaining family members are left in their tiny apartment still scrapping for their own lives.
There is the desperation thoughts of the son, who has a head injury that is keeping him from the police arrest already and judopaxzation of reality.
For Koreans this situation is more intense than any American can react due to CULTURAL but the problems remain.
The dad is actually the best off of the family even though he’s in a self imposed solidarity confinement stealing food at night....
You should finish the movie for the which in part you will relate internally.
Your own internalization processing the movie is why it won the award. It will make “feel” pain and leave you knowing you would destined to a life of need and anguish.