A woman murdered a neighbour 21 years after he rapedher when she was nine years old and said 'I didn’t killa human being, I killed a beast.' She looks back at theage of beasts when human trafficking and kidnapping ofwomen were everyday realities.In the late 1980s, the expansion of democracy causedmajor changes in the lives of women. Women’sawareness of human rights was also gradually increasing.However, women were not yet the subjects of an equaldemocratic society. Women fought to enact a special lawon sexual violence.The documentary begins with the ‘Kim Bu-nam case’,which led to the enactment of the Special Act on SexualViolence, and ends with the first trial judgment of‘Professor Shin Case’, the first sexual harassment-relatedlawsuit.'When I look at the logic, that ‘the struggle againstsexual violence causes conflict between men andwomen’ and the remarks of the victims of ProfessorShin’s case, I feel frustrated that ‘nothing haschanged’. When looking at the poor records of women’sstruggles, we were making records in which womenbecame subjects. If history is a record embedded ina massive hard disk, an archive documentary is ‘diskdefragmentation’. History will clean things up, andhistory will be biased towards the writings of men.'(Jeong Jae-eun)
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