My Name
2021
Original language: Korean
- crime
- drama
- mystery
The story
Following her father's murder, a revenge-driven woman puts her trust in a powerful crime boss — and enters the police force under his direction.
What it’s like
Dim, rain-slicked Busan streets and cold fluorescent interiors give this Korean crime drama a hard, sickly-blue palette, shot with close handheld framing that stays tight on faces during tense exchanges and pulls back to wide, grey urban sprawl in quieter beats. Its sound leans on low, pulsing synth and sudden silences before violence, which lands with blunt, abrupt force: brutal fight choreography, shootings, and murder are shown directly rather than softened, and drug use and bloody aftermath appear. Dread and suspense run constant, with the rhythm of a binge-friendly thriller that keeps doubling back on who is lying to whom. The emotional register is grim and vengeful, a slow-burn study of grief hardening into cold calculation, and the central arc follows a young woman who gradually loses her footing between justice and the man she has chosen to trust. Best suited to viewers who want undercover intrigue, moral murk and a dark, unflinching edge, not comfort viewing or anything gentle.
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