Drama, Mystery  •  2022  •  111 min

I Want to Know Your Parents (2022)

I Want to Know Your Parents poster

I Want to Know Your Parents (2022)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive

Viewer Rating
6.8

Overview

I Want to Know Your Parents is a 2022 South Korean drama centered around a tragic school bullying incident and the moral dilemmas it creates for the involved families. The film leans progressive, focusing on how privilege and class can distort accountability and justice, while questioning established norms of parental loyalty and authority without outright rejecting them. These themes, combined with its focus on elite corruption, frame it as a critique of structural power imbalances, making its progressive leaning label clear.


Starring Cast

Sul Kyung-gu  •   Oh Dal-su  •   Chun Woo-hee

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Strong Left
Confidence: Medium

The film's central thesis explicitly critiques how wealth and social status enable the powerful to subvert justice and evade accountability for heinous acts, directly promoting a progressive ideology of systemic critique against elite corruption.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The movie 'I Want to Know Your Parents' features an all-Korean cast, which is standard for its South Korean setting and does not engage with explicit racial or gender recasting as defined by DEI criteria. The narrative focuses on themes of social class, privilege, and corruption within South Korean society, rather than explicitly critiquing traditional identities such as white, male, or heterosexual.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium

The film critically portrays parents who prioritize protecting their children from consequences over truth and morality, questioning the integrity of parental authority and the family unit when faced with wrongdoing. It does not endorse alternative family structures but challenges traditional norms regarding unquestioning parental loyalty.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High

The film "I Want to Know Your Parents" is a mystery thriller centered on a school bullying incident and the subsequent confrontation between the victim's parents and the alleged bullies' parents. The narrative focuses on themes of class, parental responsibility, and justice. There are no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes present within the film's plot or character arcs.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The film 'I Want to Know Your Parents' does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. The narrative centers on a middle school student's suicide and the subsequent investigation into the bullying by four classmates, focusing on the parents' attempts to conceal their children's involvement. Transgender identity is not a component of the story.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film is an adaptation of a stage play where the specific genders of the parent and teacher characters are not rigidly fixed or canonically established across all productions. Therefore, no character in the film is portrayed as a different gender from a widely established source.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film is a South Korean adaptation of a Japanese stage play. While the characters' ethnicity or nationality may shift from Japanese to Korean, their broader racial category remains East Asian, consistent with the source material. No character's race was changed.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High

Not depicted in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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6.6
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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