Watch Mother Is A Whore (2009)
Storyline:
In rural South Korea, Sang-woo runs a service for lonely, frustrated men and even the disabled. He pimps his mother out to them. Sang-woo even puts out flyers advertising her as the cheapest whore in Korea. The old lady is enthusiastic in her job and has a bunch of regulars who finance the mother-son’s favorite pork and beef treats.
Sang-woo’s father is a middle-class family man living in a nearby town, whose step-son hides away in his room refusing to step out and whose step-daughter hates him though she has a thing for the brash Sang-woo. There’s also a gay teenager who keeps following Sang-woo around.
The facade around all the characters is soon stripped away with the highlight being the complex relationship between Sang-woo and his mother. It’s clear that he hates himself for the job he’s putting her through, though she claims she enjoys it and does it to kill the loneliness. It’s also suggested that he is HIV+ and it almost feels like Sang-woo’s mother sees the rest of her life as only focused on earning for him as a biological commitment. The relationship between the two, wins the film its Misery-Depressing category and director Lee Sang-woo (who also plays the lead), seems to have imbibed the gift of a deep understanding of miserable people from working as Kim Ki-duk’s assistant.
