High Society (2018) User Reviews

Greed brings ruin

[Misss25 · 7/10 · 17 March 2021]

This movie illustrates the High and lower level people of society. How the High or rich society tries to make them do whatever they want. Oh Soo Yean and Tae Joon both are the ambitious person and they are trying hard to get their desirable positions.Oh Soo who works in a Art company wants to be a director and Her husband who is a professor trying heart and soul to become a Assembly member.However,Tae Joon gets a chance to appear on a tv to talk about high rent prices and how it's affecting the middle class people.He along with some others started protesting where a man tries to burn himself in the protest.Tae Joon however saved him and becomes over night famous.So,He receives a proposal about opening a bank at a lower interest level for poor people.He agrees to carry on with the proposal made my the members of the assembly. On the other hand,Her wife tried to save her job and started looking for an artist. She goes to close to him and went to paris with him and share some intimate moments.Similarly, Tae Joon becomes intimate with her secretary. Things become ugly when he find out that those are the people whom he was supposed to start a bank with and they are gonna use it for money laundering and those money are from prostitution and some other illegal business.He said he is gonna reveal this ugly truth but they blackmail him. on the other hand, soo Ae is blackmailed by his colleague by showing scandal of her having intimate relationship with the artist.And she also got the position of director by seducing chairman so she makes a plan of revealing chairman 's bad intention and she told Lee Hwa raan about it.After that she find out Lee hwa Raaan was with her male chairman all the time. Later,she is being threatened by using video.. On the other hand, her husband is determined to disclose them in the public, so he collects evidence against them. When he reached home and told his wife about this,. She requests not to do that but he was so firm about this.At last she showed her husband the video. At last she shows plays the video on the exhibition to those who are blackmailing her for this for a while. She says she doesn't want to live in slavery, she wants to live in freely.So,she resign the job and started her own company and her husband discloses them and they are being arrested for fraud.

actually talking about desire

[yoggwork · 5/10 · 30 August 2019]

This has little to do with the upstream society, but rather the desire to speak. How many people can resist the temptation of desire? The good thing about the film is that every major character shows the right desire. The bad thing is that the plot is old-fashioned, the erotic content is a bit more, and the end is really bad.

Glossy but ultimately fizzles

[phd_travel · 5/10 · 7 July 2021]

Glossy looking look at a couple dealing with corruption on the way up. The man is an aspiring congressman who comes into contact with some crooked bad money people. She works in an art gallery and gets involved in some shady price inflation thing. They both have affairs he with some aide and she with an artist. They both have ambitions but later decide to expose everything after she is blackmailed with a sex tape. No character here is a sympathetic one so when they do the right thing it doesn't feel meaningful. The filming is glossy and polished. There even are scenes in Europe. The nudity is rather gross rather than anything else. Maybe it's meant to be.

The cast is full of familiar faces. They mostly suit their roles. Park Hae Il is fine as the congressman and Soo Ae looks hard enough as the gallery person. Lee Jin Wook plays the artist and Kim Kang Woo a gangster crook.

Not enough substance in this movie - it felt like a portion of a drama about corruption in high places but nicely filmed. The ending should have had some special twist. Not a must watch.

Forgotten Morals

[kosmasp · 8/10 · 13 July 2019]

Ambition can be quite deceiving. But it is not just the ambition a person has himself, but also that of individuals who are close to that person. And the theme here is quite something. Infidelity is wrong (at least morally above all) - but how does that make an impact on a couple? And what lengths should they go for their own goals? It is these questions the movie asks, that are quite riveting and that are really relatable.

I am a bit surprised this has such a low rating and I have a bit of an affection towards Korean movies from the get go, so maybe I am biased. But as mentioned this really does not just go for society as a whole (not only the upper class, though they are the "main" target), but really focuses on the personal level and sacrifices when it comes to the way to the top ... The ending may be something that people will disagree with, but I liked where it went and I liked the realness of the characters too (flaws and all)

A beautiful final work of art...

[RosanaBotafogo · 8/10 · 14 May 2021]

Very good, it would be a portrait of the South Korean High Society, a lot of beauty, wealth, ambition, glamor and very unscrupulous... They wrote "There is no love line between Lee Jin Wook and Soo Ae", I agree, but that is the intention, the union for ambitious chemistry, relationship with compatible interests, the affection and respect between them... I really liked the outcome, giving the vote, after blackmail and exhibitions, a beautiful final work of art...

Being Greedy is bad for you and Also people at the top are not always untouchable.

[kmhlbeavis · 9/10 · 3 December 2023]

The story here is of the male and female leads. The male is a professor who has aspirations to being a politician and his wife the female lead has aspirations to being the director of the art gallery where she works. The husband saves an elderly man who sets himself on fire. This catapults him to his chance as he tries to make a difference. The wife seduces the chairman and also seduces the artist to get to the level of director to replace the current director played by Mi-Ran and gets him to sign on as the new artist of the gallery. Little did they both know that both the political party that the husband was in and the art gallery that the wife worked at were working together to launder black money. In the end the husband and wife were able to free themselves from these people and the members of both the art gallery and the political party went to jail. It's worth the watch especially with the supporting actress Mi-Ran being good as usual in the role of the evil director.