Hye-yeong (Kim Hye-yoon) doesn't take the time to grieve when her unlucky dad (Park Hyuk-kwon) ends up "brain dead" at the hospital. Maybe her life has been sad so long that she's lost the propensity to do so. Understandable. Plus, her refusal to mourn ensures she's got plenty of time and energy to devote to solving the surrounding case -- investigated by cops and insurance company alike, and involving a wide array of people. Surely, her father can't be blamed for every crime: reckless driving, broken arm, construction site accident, striking a former employer, totalling someone else's car... His daughter knows her dad better than that.
Auntie (Yang So-min) knows some things, too. The voicemail on dad's phone details even more. But will this troubled eldest child ever be able to achieve justice, given her own public record of reactive violence. Park Ri-Woong's The Girl on a Bulldozer kicks off with a girl fight involving hair-pulling, punching, kicking, and a pair of scissors. Our anti-heroine's choice to slap the slimy politician who may be responsible for her dad's undoing is certainly an act with viral online potential but does she really think such an impulsive smack is going to work in her favor? In truth, Hye-yeong makes a number of choices that strain the viewer's credulity. And plot points like a lighter that malfunctions right when she's about to torch someone's apartment say much the same about this movie's screenplay.
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