Honest Candidate (2020) on Netflix
NR20201h 44m
A third-term congresswoman, Joo Sang-sook is campaigning for a fourth. Days before the election she loses the ability to lie, and her career rests on lies.
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Plot summary
Joo Sang-sook is a congresswoman in her third term, and she is running for a fourth. She charms the public with pleasant words. A few days before the election, she visits her grandmother, who lives in an isolated house, and when she gets home she realizes that she cannot lie anymore. Her whole political career has been built on lies.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Honest Candidate (2020)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Jang Yu-jeong found the Brazilian original O Candidato Honesto while recording a commentary for her 2017 film The Bros, and decided within about ten minutes to remake it as a satire rather than a story fuelled by anger at local politics.
- The protagonist of the Brazilian original O Candidato Honesto is a male politician, but director and screenwriter Jang Yu-jeong changed the character's gender when she cast Ra Mi-ran, saying no one else could handle the role.
