Things that keep me up at night (not the crying baby)

Just before getting some shut eye last night, was thinking about Kim Shunpei.

He might have just been misunderstood. Old fashion. Guided by the best of intents but his actions turns out all wrong.

He is kind....to a rather large extent because he provided for women who were considered wayward and of diminished morality.

Alright, so his eldest son was a result of him raping another woman who was later criminalised. I guess to atone for his mistake, he married a woman who had an affair with and pregnanted by a married man, thus was driven out of a community.

So the opening scene started with him forcing the woman to have sex. But it wasn't rape to him. Not during those times, no woman can actually accuse her husband of rape. Not in 1930s Japan.

He then took in a woman who has lost her husband to World War II. You have to remember that this was in the mid 20th century, Japan. This woman seemed like a regular nympho and constantly cried that she wanted to die during their bouts of lovemaking because she thought she couldn't take all that orgasmic joy. And when this second woman succumbed to a brain tumour and was reduced to a bedridden mumbling mess, he employed a nurse (with a daughter in tow) to take care of the her. Not sure about the nurse but she's probably widowed or something.

Of course, he fucked the brains out of the nurse on the first day of her job.
But it wasn't rape or anything.
It was probably written into the nursing contract.

And the reason why he did all these? Mainly cause he wanted to have a son raised entirely by himself.

When he learn that his step-daughter, a victim of domestic violence, before and after marriage by her step-father and husband respectively, has committed suicide, he went out for revenge on her husband at her funeral wake. Alright, so maybe that was just his excuse for venting out the violence in him.

He killed/murdered/euthanised the bedridden mumbling mess second wife, witnessed by his son from the first wife, he said it was to end her suffering. To a very large extent, he was right. She was indeed suffering. With her death, her suffering did end. Did she wanted her suffering to end? We don't know because no one could make out her groans and moans (not from orgasmic joys).

So why was he hoarding all his wealth? In the end, he donated all the wealth he accumulated from his fishcake and loansharking business to the People's Republic of Korea. So Kim Il Sung benefitted from him. Was it because he was a commie at heart?

Everything's grey.