Movie

National Sexuality Management Committee

Name: National Sexuality Management Committee
Released: 2018

2018 • Unknown

Woke Score

out of 10

Plot

To prevent the national crisis of childbirth, the State makes the Sex Life Management Committee. When a couple (Doyoon Min, Arang Kim) could not get pregnant, the person in charge of the National Sex Life Management Committee (Chaedam Lee, Minwoo Kang) was dispatched to encourage pregnancy. Since the officials in charge are experts in this area, they have been given the role of evangelists who hold the wrong position and convey the correct sexual knowledge.

Overall Series Review

The movie centers on a futuristic, dystopian scenario where the South Korean government, facing a low fertility crisis, forms a 'National Sexuality Management Committee' to intervene directly in the private lives of couples. The plot follows two 'experts,' Lee Chae Dam and Kang Min Woo, dispatched to the home of a struggling married couple, Min Do Yoon and Lee Soo, to implement 'intensive management' and deliver 'correct sexual knowledge' to ensure a pregnancy. The narrative critiques extreme state overreach into the most personal aspects of individual liberty and the family unit. The focus is almost entirely on the heterosexual relationship and the mechanics of procreation, which is a traditional, pro-natalist theme, though presented through an authoritarian lens. The film is a South Korean erotic drama and does not engage with Western-centric identity politics or Oikophobia themes. The highest scoring category reflects the presence of a female state-authority figure dictating private life, a subtle form of the 'Girl Boss' trope, but the overarching pro-family goal keeps the score low.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The movie is a South Korean production focusing on a national issue, and all main characters share the same racial and cultural background. The narrative conflict is between state bureaucracy and individual liberty, not between different races or immutable characteristics. There is no focus on the vilification of 'whiteness' or forced insertion of diversity.

Oikophobia2/10

The central conflict is a critique of an authoritarian domestic government policy (state overreach into private life to solve a national crisis). This is a critique of a bad system or ideology that undermines liberty within the nation, not a hostility toward the 'Western home culture' or 'ancestors' as defined in the category.

Feminism4/10

The score is low because the core theme is overtly pro-natalist, focusing on the traditional goal of conception and family, which is the antithesis of anti-natalism. The female committee member, Lee Chae Dam, holds a position of state-sanctioned 'expert' authority over the married couple's most intimate life, which aligns with the 'Girl Boss' dynamic of a powerful, perfect female lead correcting the behavior of others.

LGBTQ+1/10

The entire plot revolves around a heterosexual, married couple's inability to conceive and the state's intervention to force procreation. This narrative actively reinforces the traditional male-female pairing and the nuclear family unit as the normative structure required to solve the national crisis. Sexual identity is not centered outside of this traditional reproductive context.

Anti-Theism1/10

The movie's conflict is entirely political and sexual. The 'evangelist' title is used metaphorically to describe the state official conveying 'correct sexual knowledge.' There is no thematic conflict involving traditional religion, moral relativism, or the demonization of Christian characters.