1/8/2024 0 Comments Two worlds movieSo, as we go along, we see a great many “sins” that are not really sins at all. The way one travels through the hells, by this scheme, is according to severity of the crime, which works in both a philosophical and an aesthetic sense. But the thing is the action is just to add a little fun suspense to the dramatic aspects of the film. This could get out of hand pretty quickly I think. Now you got an action comedy-drama afterlife movie. This apparently messes up the familial karma, speeding up time, and will prevent Ja-hong from making it through in the 49 days or perhaps at all. This, we’re told, means that one of Ja-Hong’s relatives has died and become a vengeful spirit. Traveling between the hells, our heroes begin to come under assault by demonic forces. But there’s still more wrinkles in this plot. In this movie, they’re sort of afterlife cruise directors. So they are highly motivated to get him through, especially his bodyguard, Haewonmaek, and peppy psychic sidekick Dukchoon, since they have no memories of their past lives at all. What that means is that he would actually be capable of going through all seven trials in 49 days-which becomes a hook for the sequel-and if he can get through them all, as a paragon, he counts for one of the hundred paragons our defending attorneys need to achieve their own goals of reincarnation. He doesn’t believe he’s a paragon, and he’s indifferent or even hostile to his own defense-until he’s told that he other reward of making it through is to be able to appear in the dreams of a loved one, and there’s a message he really wants to get through to his mother. But there’s a twist: Ja-Hong doesn’t want to be reincarnated. That in itself would make for a pretty good set-up, and it makes for the emotional core of the movie: Sort of a more dramatic version of Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life. If he makes it through the trials, he gets to be reincarnated. I mean, they don’t call them that, but that’s their job: To find Ja-Hong guilty of his sins, to get him punished and to make sure he doesn’t get off too lightly (or perhaps at all). ![]() It’s their job to defend Ja-Hong from the aggressive, and aggressively incompetent, assistant district attorneys of the underworld. ![]() Our Hero, Ja-Hong learns all this from his after-life advocates who are a combination of defense attorney, bodyguard and psychic. If you fail, you end up suffering the torment for that sin. The deal is you are taken through each of the seven hells and judged on your sins. This being a Korean movie, the afterlife is governed by an implacable bureaucracy. In this story, a heroic firefighter dies and is taken to the afterlife. I throw myself on the mercy of the court.
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