6.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Thriller, Drama • 2010 • 107 min
The Housemaid (2010)
The Housemaid (2010)
Overview
This South Korean thriller follows Eun-yi, a young woman hired as a live-in maid for a wealthy family, whose employer exploits his position of power over her. Director Im Sang-soo frames the story as a sharp critique of class privilege and male entitlement, using the domestic setting to expose how wealth insulates the powerful from consequences. The family's polished exterior dissolves into infidelity, manipulation, and cruelty. The film earns its Progressive label through a consistent argument: traditional hierarchies, whether economic or domestic, corrupt those at the top and trap those at the bottom. The 'perfect family' here functions less as an ideal and more as a pressure cooker with a maid caught inside.
Starring Cast
Jeon Do-yeon • Lee Jung-jae • Youn Yuh-jung
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
6.6
Overview
This South Korean thriller follows Eun-yi, a young woman hired as a live-in maid for a wealthy family, whose employer exploits his position of power over her. Director Im Sang-soo frames the story as a sharp critique of class privilege and male entitlement, using the domestic setting to expose how wealth insulates the powerful from consequences. The family's polished exterior dissolves into infidelity, manipulation, and cruelty. The film earns its Progressive label through a consistent argument: traditional hierarchies, whether economic or domestic, corrupt those at the top and trap those at the bottom. The 'perfect family' here functions less as an ideal and more as a pressure cooker with a maid caught inside.
Starring Cast
Jeon Do-yeon • Lee Jung-jae • Youn Yuh-jung
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Political: Strong Left
Confidence: High
The film's central thesis explicitly critiques class exploitation and the abuse of power by the wealthy elite, demonstrating how their privilege enables systemic injustice and moral decay against vulnerable individuals.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
The movie features an ethnically homogeneous cast consistent with its South Korean setting and production, without engaging in explicit DEI-driven casting related to Western norms. However, its narrative strongly critiques traditional male power and class structures through the explicit negative portrayal of its primary male antagonist.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The film portrays a wealthy, seemingly traditional nuclear family whose facade of perfection crumbles under the weight of infidelity, exploitation, and power abuse, thoroughly critiquing and undermining traditional family values and structures.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film 'The Housemaid, 2010' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses entirely on heterosexual relationships, class dynamics, and power struggles within a wealthy family, with no elements pertaining to queer identity.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The Housemaid (2010) does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or explore transsexual themes. The story centers on a housemaid's relationship with her employers, and no elements within the plot or character arcs relate to transgender identity. Therefore, the film has no net impact on the portrayal of transsexual individuals or themes.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The 2010 film is a remake of a 1960 South Korean movie. A comparison of the main characters between the original and the remake shows no instances where a character's established gender was altered.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The 2010 film is a remake of a 1960 South Korean film. All main characters in both the original and the remake are portrayed as East Asian, consistent with their setting and origin. No character established as one race in the source material is depicted as a different race.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.3
6.3
Critic Ratings
6.9
6.8
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