This is a thinly disguised propaganda film in which the murderess-thief and her daughter and the run-down apartment building they live in are supposed to represent North Korea and the successful bourgeois family and their penthouse are supposed to represent South Korea...the final scene in which the murderess is burned alive is a cynical reference to the fire-bombing of the Korean cities during the Korean War which killed some two million people.
Review of Hide and Seek
