Una Femmina: The Code of Silence (2022), delves deeper into the same themes in Familia. Opening with partially blurred flashbacks, both films follow protagonists recovering from distorted memories of the past to uncover the truth. The father, after painful years in and out of prison, seeks to reunite with his family. Though the family accepts his tearful apology, his old violent tendencies and paranoia soon resurface. Familia contrasts the father, who controls the family, with the son, who gets involved in an extremist organization, as he grapples with the cycle of violence passed through generations. The film is an allegory that flips the “prodigal son” narrative and reinterprets the hero of the Greek tragedy through the protagonist struggling to escape the chains of fate. (LEE Yong Cheol)