Shelter

This is a dark and twisty family drama that presents as a thriller. Told in the close third person, it follows Kyung Cho in the aftermath of discovering his mother, naked, bruised and bloodied stumbling out from the woods of his backyard. It is the crack that starts the slow collapse after a lifetime of accumulated pressure. Yun is ruthless and mines the tension wrought from economic, generational and cultural differences to create a storm that catches up Kyung. He is one of those insanely frustrating characters that you watch as he destroys every semblance of shelter in his life. He's like a duck gliding upriver, outwardly exhibiting stoic calm but paddling furiously underneath not to be swept downstream. The story is unexpected and defied my expectations going in.