DALLAS ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 REVIEW: Lee Soo-Youn's BLUEBEARD is a creepy twisting vine, entangling reality and illusion as dismembered bodies emerge in an entirely modern tale
Beneath the surface, however, seems to be another theme that is perhaps a bold statement on the dangers of disassociation of connections and relationships in modern urban culture. It is strongly implied that this abrupt disruption from home, wife, child, professional identity and economic class helped ignite the doctor’s decline in mental stability—that the strain of these sudden jarring changes and absence of connectedness brought on a psychological collapse.