Ambition can be a dangerous thing if you are capable of doing anything to reach your goal. High Society (2018) is a film showing how ambition can become your enemy. How it can turn your life upside down, change the values you had lived with and pretty much how it can transform you into a different human being.
Starring Park Hae-Il as Tae-Joonis a successful university professor who suddenly gets to run for the National Assembly and Soo-Ae as Tae-Joonis’ wife Soo-Yeon a gallery assistant curator who is yearning for success, money and power. This film shows how complicated the life of the couple gets when they have no control over their decisions and when their success is in the hands of powerful people.
I would very rarely watch a film with this sort of theme, but as soon as I saw the names Ra Mi-Ran and Lee Jin-Wook, I decided to give it a try. They are both on my list of top favourite actors of all time but unfortunately had no major role in the plot of this movie.
The movie starts off quite well, the story starts developing progressively and when it gets to the breaking point, it just crashes into predictable outcomes and the typical ‘good ones always win’.
Don’t get me wrong, I love lovely, cheesy and happy endings, but the plot of this movie was written in such a way that there was no way in which ‘the good guys’ would win, but they managed to change it abruptly which ended the entire story it had built up.
Another unexpected twist of the movie were the sex scenes. I mean, I’m completely fine with sex scenes in movies, but for some reason some of them made me feel slightly uncomfortable. They were shot from an ‘artistic’ point of view, but they just seemed off.
Overall, I wish the movie had ended differently and the plot hadn’t changed that abruptly. It had potential, but just left bitter feelings and a lot of questions.
You can check out the trailer here:
