Beautiful on AllMovie

In an era where the public's obsession with beauty has become completely absurd, a strikingly attractive woman begins to consider her appearance the enemy, and sets out to destroy it by becoming as hideous as humanly possible. Eunyoung has always been beautiful; every man lusts after her, and every woman envies her. When the boyfriend of Eunyoung's best friend makes a pass at her, the friendship between the gorgeous woman and her treasured friend is destroyed beyond repair. Soon thereafter, the brazen looks she receives on the streets begins to drive Eunyoung mad, and the jealously of women starts to weigh heavy on her soul. Later, Eunyoung is raped by a man who has been stalking her for some time. As the man is carted off to prison, he declares his undying love for the deeply traumatized Eunyoung. In the aftermath of the assault, Eunyoung begins to believe that it was her beauty that drove the man to commit such a heinous crime, and gradually comes to loathe her appearance. Determined that she could live a happy life if she could only become less attractive, Eunyoung decides to destroy her beauty by gorging on food and becoming obese. When her body refuses to respond to the massive dietary fluctuation, she decides to take it the opposite way and become anorexic. Unfortunately, that only makes Eunyoung fall ill. The one day, while walking down the street, Eunyoung happens to cross paths with the man she believed was still serving a prison sentence for raping her.