Unmasking the Intriguing Tale of Masked Girl: A Deep Dive into Societal Beauty Norms and Emotional Turmoil
Story: A regular office employee who is insecure about her appearance transforms into an anonymous internet personality by night, living her dreams behind a veil of anonymity. A series of sad events in her life and the lives of those close to her, however, cause things to start going awry.
Review: Distorted physical images, distorted notions of beauty, distorted familial relationships, and distorted connections – Masked Girl comments deeply on societal beauty standards and how they can influence an individual, pushing them to the extent where not only their self-esteem gets shattered, but their life as well. Additionally, it deals with how early childhood and later unhealthful nurture can hurt an individual as well as the generational effects.
The seven episodes of the short-lived series each tell the tale of an individual who has been traumatized by their own dark past and is now stuck inside of themself. Each character is interconnected, and while they are all quite distinct from each other, the commonality lies in their emotionally wounded state.
Kim Mo-mi (Go Hyun-jung/Im Jin-ah/Lee Han-byul) had one wish: to be popular and to be loved by everyone. But she publicly declares, in front of her mother and the whole world, that she doesn’t look good, so she starts living a mundane life as another office employee.
With the onset of the 2000s, the Internet and web streaming boom, Mo-mi gets a chance to live her dreams by transforming into Masked Girl after hours of work, where she receives admiration and affection from strangers who see what she wants them to see through her online persona.
When one of her followers instigates her to reveal her identity, it results in Mo-mi getting entangled in a series of heinous crimes, impacting not only her but also her daughter, her mother (who had distanced herself from her for a long time), her friends, and the man’s mother she had unknowingly killed, revealing how deeply intertwined she is with Mo-mi.
Verdict: Masked Girl is a dark narrative that can make you uncomfortably feel the horrific mechanism of human minds that are overlooked by society and ridiculed. It makes a statement about the dark side of the world we all live in and how it impacts not only the lives of those who unwittingly come into contact with it, but also everyone, not just the marginalized or hated sections of society.
The romance and unexpected twists in the series are skillfully done.
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