“Beauty is Destiny” Beauty made Mad by the Mad World: An Analysis of Juhn Jai-hong’s film Beautiful

As against the platonic aspect of beauty as a non-accidental element that prompts desire and the human beauty as the signpost to realm beyond desire, the film depicts the life of a beautiful young woman, Eun-young Kim for whom her beauty becomes a curse that the world deprives her of her right to live. The proposed article is a reading of the film which undertakes the notion of beauty as objective as against the Kantian notion of subjectivity in the judgement of the beautiful. Moreover it is an attempt to read the film as a speck of hard reality as against to human appreciation of artistic beauty and the film maker‟s endeavour to depict the real human world.