Two Reviews on the Korean Film 'The Handmaiden' (II)

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(2) Manohla, Dargis, To the Manor Confined, and from It Liberated; Voluptuous details that are an invitation to ooh, aah and mmm. New York Times, Oct 21, 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/2 ... dmaiden-review.html

Note:
(a) "The kinks grow more outré and twisted, the winks dirtier and broader. The uncle has raised Hideko from childhood, away from the world, intending to wed her for her fortune. He’s also turned her into a puppet, having trained her to read erotic fiction aloud for the delectation of his potential customers."
(i) outré (adj; etymology)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outr%C3%A9
(ii) delectation (n; etymology: sharing the same Latin root as another noun delight)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/delectation

(b) "There’s also a characteristic Grand Guignol flourish toward the end that's outrageous enough that you may find yourself at once laughing and gasping, only to hastily avert your eyes."
(i) Grand Guignol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol
(ii) Grand Guignol
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Grand%20Guignol
(pronunciation)

(c) Hideko "has been raised amid material plenty with luxuriously appointed rooms as well as drawers and shelves stuffed with elegant feminine frippery — gloves, hats, gowns. Mr. Park loves displaying all these goods, much like a proud merchant (or Gatsby), even as moment by moment he pushes the narrative into ugliness, scratching off the gilt to reveal a grim drama in which Hideko plays both the leading lady and slave."

frippery (n; etymology)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frippery

(d) "A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, “The Handmaiden” is finally and most significantly a liberation story."
(i) rebus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
(ii) rebus (n; Did You Know?)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rebus