User:Jack Sebastian/Door Lock

Door Lock is a 2018 South Korean [:[thriller film|thriller]] [:[drama film]] directed by [:[Lee Kwon]]. The film is a loose remake of the 2011 Spanish film [:[Sleep Tight (film)|Sleep Tight]]. The film tells the story of a woman who discovers that someone is breaking into her apartment, and when no one believes her, she takes it upon herself to uncover the intruder. The film stars [:[Gong Hyo-jin]], [:[Kim Ye-won (actress, born 1987)|Kim Ye-won]] and [:[Kim Sung-oh]].

It was released on December 5, 2018.

Cast

 * Gong Hyo-jin]] as Cho Kyung-min
 * Kim Ye-won as Oh Hyo-joo
 * Kim Sung-oh as Detective Lee
 * Jo Bok-rae
 * [:[Lee Ga-sub]]
 * [:[Lee Chun-hee]]

Plot
A woman, Seung-Hye comes home to her apartment in the city and discovers the power is off. She is then attacked by a shadowy figure. Muffled screams and a struggle is heard from the hallway.

Some time later, another resident in the apartment building, Jo Kyung-Min, lives a quiet life in her studio apartment within the city. Her boyfriend sleeps next to her and leaves without awakening her. Before leaving for work, she arranges a drying rack in plain sight with men's clothing hanging from it, and neatly arranges a man's shoes at her entryway. Upon returning home from her job as a bank teller, she finds the cover to her door lock key pad ajar, as if someone were trying to break into her apartment. A bit unsettled, she changes the door lock's passcode as a precaution.

Kyung-Min lives alone, and uses the man's clothing on the drying rack and shoes to scare off potential intruders. She is unaware that an unknown man is entering her apartment and drugging her before showering and sleeping beside her until early in the morning when he is awakened by an alarm from his watch and leaves before she awakens.

One night, as she prepares for bed, she hears someone trying to use the keypad to enter her apartment. She calls the police who, when they finally arrive, treat her with annoyance and dismiss her concerns as. She continues to find other hints of someone trying to break into her home, which makes her increasingly nervous. When a customer accosts her at her workplace and then again after work, her male co-worker helps her gives her a ride home. After he drops her off at home, he knocks on her door to return her wallet she accidentally left in his car. She immediately becomes suspicious that he knew her apartment number and flees to the lobby to summon police. When the police enter the apartment, they discover the co-worker's dead body, and the police consider her a suspect.

While cleaning up the mess in her apartment from the crime, she comes across an unknown electronic access key fob that leads to an apartment directly above her own, and apparently abandoned. Finding some old bills, she learns that there are daily purchases at a nearby store, and she and her friend follows a person who makes purchases at the same time for the same amount. She follows the person to a door with the same sort of door lock as her own, and with the same key code as hers. Inside, she finds Syeung-Hye tied to a bed with an IV drip in her arm, her feet amputated. Kyung-Mi immediately begins to call the police, but is interrupted by the arrival of the homeowner. She hides under the bed, while the man injects a poison into the woman's IV, telling her that he has found someone else, and Kyung-Mi realizes in horror that he is referring to her. She makes her escape from the man's apartment while he begins dismembering his former captive, and he chases her.

She cannot trust the police to help her, so she starts investigating the matter on her own before something terrible happens to her.

Filming
Principal photography began on January 7, 2018, and wrapped on March 14, 2018.

Themes
Door Lock takes thy typical damsel in distress formula and accentuates the typical fears that women in modern society face every day.

"As described, Lee Kwon‘s Door Lock could be a remake of any number of films, but it’s actually a very specific riff on 2011’s Spanish gem Sleep Tight. Where that film is a brilliantly twisted look at a male antagonist, though, Lee’s redo focuses on a female victim-to-be. Of course, women are most frequently the targets in killer thrillers, but Lee takes the basic woman in jeopardy formula and shines a light on the everyday fears faced by women in modern society. If it sounds preachy, don’t worry, it’s not as the film is a slick and creepy tale that thrills and excites fans of suspense rides.

“You have too many men around you,” says someone to Kyung-min, and it serves as both observation and warning. After the initial incident with the stranger at her door, we’re made privy to an average day in her life built on interactions and altercations, and while she has professional clashes with a female co-worker it’s the men in and around her life who quickly mark themselves as suspect. A dashingly chummy co-worker, an angry customer, a soft-spoken maintenance man, a judgemental cop — all of them have an opinion and an interest, and at least one of them is dangerous. Her world is male-dominated through no fault of her own, and what might be a slight affront to a man takes on a potentially frightening demeanor for a woman.

It’s a real-world concern and terror that even those of us who don’t live with it can understand, and Lee and Kong craft tension and concern from even the slightest passing. Once she’s become aware of someone actively trying to reach her every man becomes a threat, and the script does a fantastic job offering up a menu of suspects for viewers to choose from. The ultimate reveal isn’t necessarily surprising, but the realization that any of them could be the culprit is a sad and dispiriting realization.

Viewers live with this suspense for 100 minutes — many women are forced to endure it every damn day."

Release
It was released on December 5, 2018.