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Delicious Delivery
Movie

Delicious Delivery

2015Romance

Woke Score
4
out of 10

Plot

Im Hyeok is a handsome boy who gets dumped by his girlfriend and takes a break from school.

Overall Series Review

Delicious Delivery is a South Korean erotic drama (known as a 'goddess' or 'erotic thriller' film) that centers on the handsome college student Im Hyeok. After his father's bankruptcy and a breakup, he becomes a delivery boy. He discovers that some of his female customers are extremely lonely, and he begins offering 'additional services.' The plot follows his transactional, sensual life as a group of five women in an apartment complex collectively share him. The narrative focuses on the erotic dynamics of this polyamorous arrangement and Im Hyeok's quest to find authentic love amid the sexual transactions. The film's themes are primarily sexual transgression and the search for fulfillment, rather than political or social critique.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film is a South Korean production with a Korean cast, and the conflict is entirely centered on an individual's financial hardship and sexual relationships. Characters are judged by their personal desirability and loneliness, not by an intersectional hierarchy. The narrative contains no elements of racial or ethnic commentary.

Oikophobia3/10

The plot focuses on an individual's personal and sexual life outside of social norms. The impetus for the male lead's actions is his father’s bankruptcy, a challenge to the traditional family unit. The story portrays a hidden, transactional sexual underworld, deconstructing conventional social and sexual norms. There is no explicit attack on the home culture's history, nation, or political institutions.

Feminism6/10

The core dynamic involves a collective of women sharing a male for sexual services, which subverts traditional complementary gender roles and objectifies the male lead. The women are not portrayed as 'Girl Boss' types, but as lonely individuals who find fulfillment only in the sexual transactions. The focus on a non-familial, transactional arrangement for female pleasure is aggressively anti-natalist and anti-nuclear family.

LGBTQ+5/10

The narrative focuses on transactional, non-monogamous heterosexual relationships. It does not center a modern LGBTQ+ identity politics lens and contains no lecturing on gender ideology, non-binary concepts, or transgender issues. The narrative heavily deconstructs the nuclear family and traditional monogamy through its polyamorous premise, which aligns with the deconstructionist aspect of queer theory.

Anti-Theism4/10

The entire story operates in a completely secular and hedonistic moral vacuum, where personal gratification and transactional sex are the primary subjects. This context inherently suggests moral relativism. However, the film avoids any explicit hostility toward or criticism of organized religion, faith, or specific religious characters.