The House of Suh

The documentary is about a family and a murder case. The Suh family emigrated from Korea to America. The children, Andrew and Catherine, grew up there. There were heavy expectations inside the family. So was the pressure of being immigrants. Catherine had a boyfriend named Robert O’Dubaine. The man was killed in Chicago in 1993. Andrew committed the murder. The court held his sister Catherine responsible for planning it. Both of them were convicted. The narrator of the documentary is Andrew himself. He speaks from prison. The film goes back into the family’s past. Questions of assimilation and responsibility are taken up. The grey area between guilt and innocence is asked about. Iris K. Shim directed the ninety minute documentary. It is an American production finished in 2010.