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The Light in Your Eyes: Episodes ane-10
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Is information technology possible to be cocky and poignant at the same fourth dimension? Because that's how I feel about this show. I'chiliad however gobsmacked at how The Light in Your Eyes had such confidence in the story it wanted to tell that it didn't mind confusing some of us if it meant staying true to its heroine's story. Which gives last calendar week's episodes a lot of bear on, polishing an already skilful show. And though magic watches aren't real, at that place's no rule that says you can't start a show late. Especially a show similar this one.
(Note: this review covers the events of episodes one-10. Please concur on to your spoilers and episodes xi-12 feels until the follow-up post afterward this week. Thanks!)
Run into THE YOUNG HYE-JA
The show throws usa a twist right from the start when KIM HYE-JA (played by Kim Hye-ja, heh) walks in on a boyfriend'southward "48-60 minutes sleep challenge" circulate. Hye-ja notices that the webcam is streaming and the bored audience is now making comments about her. She sits downward and chats with them until someone asks, "How sometime are you, Grandma?" to which Hye-ja matter-of-factly replies, "Me? I'thou 25 years onetime."
The aqueduct erupts in laughter and virtual candies (convertible to greenbacks) at her humor, but in a much younger voiceover, Hye-ja insists that she really is 25.
Immature Hye-ja (played by Han Ji-min) continues that she has a magic watch that can turn back time. She establish it half-buried in the sand when she was a little daughter and discovered its powers past accident. Beingness a kid, she used those powers without much idea. Like sleeping a bit longer in the mornings earlier schoolhouse or restarting exams to get higher scores.
Later, she noticed her watch has a take hold of: when she rewinds the fourth dimension, her biological clock stays the same. So every time she pulls back the clock she becomes a little bit older than everyone else. By the fourth dimension she'due south 10, she's used the watch so much that her puzzled and worried family unit has to keep whipping out her nascence certificate to prove her actual age to others. Hye-ja decides to minimize the damage by not using the picket anymore.
When we next catch upwards with 25-years immature Hye-ja, she's in the centre of her Nth attempt to go a news ballast. It's been her dream since high school just the dream seems fuelled more by heart than actual skills. Later on a series of failed interviews, she's started to lose even the heart role of information technology and stopped submitting applications while she stays at home and "prepares" some more than.
Hye-ja's family lives in a rundown neighborhood marked for redevelopment. Mom (Lee Jung-eun) runs a pilus salon where the water force per unit area is none, the boiler keeps breaking down, and the regulars are a trio of grannies who pay for perms in vegetables. All the same, Mom rarely complains almost her lot. She but gets mad when faced with nonsense. Also bad her children are full of it, then she's pretty much mad all the time.
Dad (Ahn Nae-sangrand) drives a battered cab and is the sweetness-but-silent type of married man. He dotes on his children, particularly Hye-ja. It's not uncommon for the father-daughter pair to sneak out to a small udon place to drink and talk almost life and escape Mom's wrath.
Hye-ja'due south sliiightly younger-looking older brother YEONG-SOO (brilliant casting of Sohn Ho-joon) makes up the remainder of the family. He'southward a struggling VJ who'southward too lame to be funny and also unskilled to cease whatsoever of his viewer's challenges. His only goal in life is to eat samgyupsal–a useless dream that always brings out Mom's infamous wrath, to the point that Yeong-soo once sealed off his whole room to grill pork in underground and ended up nearly dying from asphyxiation.
Though the whole neighborhood causeless that Yeong-soo tried to commit suicide, Hye-ja and her friends know that Oppa is really just that stupid. A fact that is doubly-insulting for friend HYUN-JOO (Kim Ga-eun) who used to be head over heels for Yeong-soo. After that deeply-regretted phase of romanticism, Hyun-joo is at present an overly practical girl who doesn't have whatever dream to hunt. She helps out in her family'south small Chinese restaurant–a job that sparks shenanigans the whole series between her and her food-obsessed first love Yeong-soo.
The last friend of the trio is SANG-EUN (Vocal Sang-eun), a girl who'south been an idol-in-training for 10 years. Despite her agency renewing her contract, it's obvious they gave up on her when she describes the new terms: "I can employ the practice rooms whenever I want, sing whatever I want, practise any I want… equally long as I don't tell anyone which agency I'chiliad from."
Still, the iii best friends support each other'south endeavors. Whether it's Sang-eun's singing, Hye-ja's hate of her successful hoobae, or Hyun-joo's efforts to forget that Yeong-soo exists.
In the midst of this quarter-life crisis, Hye-ja meets LEE JOON-HA (Nam Joo-hyuk), an up-and-coming reporter. He's a favorite hoobae of Hye-ja's 1-sided college love, JANG-HO (cameo by Hyun Woo).
Jang-ho is a seasoned reporter who covers civil wars and humanitarian crises. Naturally, when he introduces his 2 favorite hoobaes to each other, Joon-ha looks interested in Hye-ja. An interest that evaporates when she turns out to be ignorant of electric current events. Joon-ha quizzes her about her dedication to broadcasting: what kinds of stories she wants to cover, what she's done to gather experience, what she thinks near fieldwork versus reporting from the studio… his pointed questions hit a sore spot with Hye-ja. She returns from the college reunion feeling talentless and even more convinced that she's not meant to be an anchor.
Hye-ja is however smarting from Joon-ha's comments when she runs into him at the neighborhood redevelopment protest. She asks what a "cool" reporter is doing in that location when their tiny concerns aren't newsworthy to people like him. After her impassioned speech, the sweetness granny that Hye-ja was profitable (Kim Young-ok) introduces Joon-ha as her grandson, here to bring together the protest. Hye-ja is embarrassed but Joon-ha is impressed. Initial antagonism now gone and with a cute boy checking her out, Hye-ja hilariously restarts the protest with softer chants.
Joon-ha'due south grandma is too eyeing the lively and considerate Hye-ja as her time to come granddaughter-in-law. Heh. Though Joon-ha pretends nonchalance in front of his grandma, they're both disappointed to hear the (faux) rumor that Hye-ja is getting married soon. Information technology doesn't terminate Joon-ha from being drawn to her though.
One night, Hye-ja is drinking her cocky-doubt away after a female sunbae offers her a chore as an erotic-scene dubber. (It came with the practical advice that every bit anchor-rejects, they accept to earn a living somehow.) Joon-ha joins Hye-ja's pity party and the ii end up playing the "who'southward more than miserable?" game. Joon-ha wins when he says his mom abandoned him, his dad is improve off expressionless, and he wants to turn back time so he tin live in an orphanage instead of making his poor grandma suffer while raising him.
A drunk Hye-ja sobs at his story and takes out the magic watch she was going to restart her dream with, offering to plow back time for him instead. Just before she can use the picket, Hye-ja stumbles and headbutts the table, giving herself a forehead gash and a gratuitous ride home on Joon-ha's back.
She wakes up non remembering annihilation in the morning. Since Mom's ladle whacks are proving unhelpful, Hye-ja escapes to Dad who tells her in between pouts that her "new young man" took her home, which makes Hye-ja squeal in please (and Dad pout harder, heh).
She runs into Joon-ha a couple more times around the neighborhood. Through him, she learns to accept her old, trivial thoughts that it's okay to look for something else to exercise in life. Meanwhile, she teaches the e'er-gloomy Joon-ha that it'south okay to dear your imperfect self. She tells him, "I don't dislike myself. I tin can't say I dear myself dearly, but I think I'm all right… you lot should beloved yourself more than. It will help y'all go more generous with yourself."
Yeong-soo, in a rare spark of sensation, gathers there's more to Hye-ja's contempo drunken binges. He gets his piddling sister to confess that she's giving upward on her dream. He pats her in comfort for maybe two seconds earlier immediately announcing it to the whole house. LOL
Mom aka Hye-ja's biggest supporter is angry and disappointed. She used to joke that she tin't wait to shut the salon and bout the world when Hye-ja becomes rich, simply what really bothers Mom is Hye-ja giving upwardly without a program. Though that dash is lost in between the ladle whacks.
Dad barely manages to hold the door for Hye-ja, and with Mom waiting to pounce just exterior her room, Dad and daughter end upward hiding together. Hye-ja apologizes to him for existence a failure. He jokes that she was meant to be Miss Korea anyhow, if but she drank more milk as a kid. And besides, she doesn't have to exist a news anchor to buy him the promised taxi. Aww…
It'southward extra sweet, making Dad's decease the next day extra vicious. Hye-ja repeatedly rewinds the clock to endeavor and stop Dad's accident. Each mean solar day she manages to run a little fleck farther, ride the bike a footling chip faster. Just she tin't seem to catch upward to him. She pays for each failure past watching Dad dice.
Tired of witnessing tragedy echo itself, Hye-ja wonders if it's something she can't modify afterward all. She asks Joon-ha what to exercise if you demand to save someone but you lot keep declining. He answers that if it's someone that *must* be saved, then giving upwards is out of the question. Hye-ja thanks him for confirming she's in the right path and goes dorsum to repeating the day of Dad'due south accident until she fiiinally manages to squeeze through and change Dad'southward hereafter from being hit by a speeding truck to crashing safely into a wall instead.
The adjacent day, Hye-ja jumps out of bed and runs into the kitchen to observe Dad alive with a scrap of a limp simply otherwise looking okay. She's and then happy that information technology takes a moment to register that the whole family is looking at her strangely. When she stares at the mirror, she finds an 80-year-old Hye-ja staring dorsum.
Run into THE OLD HYE-JA
Though the testify deals with a lot of mixed storylines, the main focus always goes back to Hye-ja'southward struggles as a new 80-year-onetime woman.
Hye-ja's get-go reaction is of form to use the watch to disengage things, only for some reason, it'due south cleaved and couldn't be fixed. One time she realizes she's stuck in an old body for real, she shuts herself in her room for days and refuses to encounter anyone. One night, she decides to cease her life and leaves her family a goodbye letter. She climbs up to the rooftop she and Joon-ha used to visit and throws the cleaved spotter away.
Joon-ha happens to be drinking in an alley below. When Hye-ja's sneaker slips and hits him in the caput, he shouts up at the strange grandma that this superlative isn't plenty to impale you lot. It will only injure you for life. Then your family volition have to have care of you lot which defeats the purpose of wanting to go out in the first place. He advises her to proceed living no affair what because that's the best mode to proceed your family un-miserable.
Unbeknownst to Hye-ja, while she was locked up in her own room, Joon-ha's abusive and money-grubbing begetter has returned to terrorize his grandma. On tiptop of this, Joon-ha feels adrift after hearing the various neighborhood rumors that Hye-ja left for Germany, got married, and left without saying a word. 1 night, a desperate Joon-ha beats himself up and frames his father to get him locked up. He instructs his grandma to continue up with the lie and then they can finally have peace, but grandma sneaks out the adjacent morning to give a argument in favor of her son. She returns with a vague alibi and apologizes to an unknowing Joon-ha. Information technology's the final affair she says to him because when he comes back that nighttime, grandma has died solitary in her sleep. While Joon-ha presides over grandma'southward wake, his begetter arrives, cops in tow to question him for false charges.
This is the state he's in when he crosses paths with the sometime Hye-ja: his grandma dead, his only friend missing, and his time to come equally a reporter now ruined.
Still, his nighttime logic is enough to stop Hye-ja's suicidal thoughts. Hye-ja tries to carve out a place in the family unit past doing more household chores. She also makes an effort to get to know her new limits, enlisting Yeong-soo to run impromptu physical tests: climbing steps (5 to run out of jiff, x to start creaky knees), running track (impossible), singing IU's famous loftier triple-note in Farewell (another incommunicable). She likewise asks Mom to accept her to the hospital for a full body checkup, though Mom has to elevate her back out when she strangles the doctor for complimenting her "young-looking" 55-year-old organs.
Hye-ja has barely accustomed her new self when she overhears Mom and Dad arguing well-nigh the toll of her maintenance medicines. Information technology sends her packing again. This time to alive a short life solitary nearly the sea. Simply her wisdom hasn't improved with historic period and she's scammed out of all her holding at the bus station. A cab driver stops and offers to take her to the beach for free, which was just the concerned human's ruse to take her to the police and find her family. She refuses to tell them anything, creating a ruckus in the station as the group of officers beg her for her name, address, or fingerprints.
Joon-ha, the traitor, happens to be at that place for questioning and tattles that the grandma lives in his neighborhood, though he doesn't know where exactly. The officers take both of them for a ride, and as luck would take it, a sniveling Yeong-soo knocks on the patrol auto, request for aid to locate his "granny" while describing Hye-ja to a T. They leave him to piggyback his tired grandma domicile.
Back in his room, Yeong-soo waves Hye-ja'southward cheerio letter in her face and scolds her for (potentially) breaking Mom and Dad'southward centre by running abroad. He so uses the aforementioned letter to blackmail her into running his errands. LOL. It's annoying merely also sugariness. Grandma or not, Yeong-soo treats Hye-ja the aforementioned equally e'er, which helps footing her. Though information technology's difficult to feel grateful when you're at present the neighborhood loser's lackey.
Hye-ja reveals herself to Hyun-joo and Sang-eun too. The girls claim that it'southward okay, she's yet the same Hye-ja they love, but at that place'due south obviously some aligning needed as they keep slipping into formal speech and sitting politely in front of her.
Though her friends and family unit endeavor their best to make the new Hye-ja feel welcome, the rest of guild says otherwise. There's this depressing scene when the burn alert goes off inside the mall. Despite Hye-ja existence one of the first people to get into the elevator, when the overcapacity alarm flashes, anybody eyes her disdainfully for not volunteering to die get off beginning. (WTF, people?!) It'south proven to be a simulated warning, merely the feel and the realization that her life doesn't affair as much equally others breaks sweet Hye-ja's heart.
One 24-hour interval, Hye-ja runs into Joon-ha who ignores her. She follows him habitation only to find him taking intendance of a domestic dog that looks similar her pet, Rice. When she checks at abode, Dad tells her Rice went missing a couple weeks back. Hye-ja becomes convinced that Joon-ha'due south new domestic dog is hers. Hye-ja tries to take Rice back, merely to exist attacked or ignored repeatedly. She keeps coming dorsum with her erstwhile clothes or even her old smell (the smell of soju LOL). Joon-ha watches dispassionately as this strange grandma begs Rice to remember her and the time they spent together, non knowing that the words are too meant for him.
Though Rice never ends upwardly recognizing Hye-ja, Joon-ha takes pity on the old lady and gives Rice to her family when Hye-ja's father comes knocking. Even though information technology's revealed afterward that this isn't the same domestic dog, (Yeong-soo tells Mom in a panic that "Rice" grew a new pair of balls, LOL) her family keeps up the ruse.
Hye-ja drops by Joon-ha's firm to give thanks him for Rice and bring food for grandma, only to notice the memorial set up in the bedchamber. Before Hye-ja can react, Joon-ha'south dad enters to ransack the place. Hye-ja hides and watches as Joon-ha catches his dad in the act and the two fight over grandma's expiry, with the male parent accusing Joon-ha of hoarding the insurance payout.
Joon-ha looks so done with life after his father leaves that he barely reacts when Hye-ja pops out from her hiding place and awkwardly leaves. Still, the sight of her dwelling-cooked meals sparks something in Joon-ha. He finds her at the udon place and shares that today was grandma'due south 49th-24-hour interval ritual. They potable in a sort of truce until Hye-ja introduces herself every bit Hye-ja's great aunt as an excuse to pry into his life. Joon-ha keeps acting like Hye-ja was merely an associate, so Hye-ja unknowingly digs deeper into his wounds by talking about how her niece felt shut to him, until Joon-ha gets fed up and walks out.
Hye-ja hears a couple of ladies talking to her mom most this Hyoja Exhibit Hall/Senior Daycare and how convenient it is to have their old relatives out of their hair during the day. Hye-ja checks it out merely figures it isn't for her, merely to plow back in shock when she hears Joon-ha take to the phase to sing for the elders.
At starting time, Hye-ja assumes that Joon-ha is doing investigative work. The exhibit hall is similar an open up scam: they entertain the elders to sell overpriced wellness supplements to them. She pulls Joon-ha aside to offer help in going undercover, only the puzzled Joon-ha answers using his "exhibit hall face" (very polite and smiley, just also bare) that he actually works there. Later on, she watches as Joon-ha uses reverse psychology to sell the supplements. She scoffs at the gimmick just ends upwardly getting a box herself. Heh. Who can say no to that angelic face up?
Nonetheless, Hye-ja knows it'due south a bad thing. She tells Hyun-joo and Sang-eun all near the exhibit hall and how she hates everything nearly it, specially the old people. She complains about the icky grandfather who fell in love with "Hee-lord's day" noona (her faux name) at offset sight, the rich grandma who looks downwardly on anybody, and another who stuffs candies in Hye-ja's rima oris without asking. Hyun-joo and Sang-eun laugh along with her, making jokes about how old people are slow and weird. Hye-ja grows uncomfortable until she shouts at them to ameliorate watch out because they'll get old too. It'due south non old people'south error their bodies are failing.
Now in a tiff with her friends, Hye-ja goes back to attention the showroom hall. She happens to notice that the bossy Chanel Lady is very friendly with Joon-ha. Hye-ja watches as Chanel Lady buys a box of supplements and asks Joon-ha to send it to her son in the US, but for Joon-ha to secretly leave it in a shelf full of unsent postal service. Hye-ja confronts him about lying to the old lady, and he answers dorsum that the son never responds so his lies actually makes the Chanel Lady feel amend. A perfect give and take. Hye-ja is appalled at his mercenary attitude and threatens to betrayal him, only he tells her that if it offends her so, she can just terminate coming to this place which she manifestly hates so much.
The e'er sprightly Hye-ja spots Chanel Lady a couple more than times around the neighborhood, every time throwing someone's assistance back in their face, scolding a clerk for talking loudly well-nigh adult diapers or refusing to wrap them in a less conspicuous packaging. During ane of these encounters, Chanel Lady leaves her phone behind and Hye-ja is forced to follow her habitation… to a cabin. Hye-ja learns from the custodian that the motel's name (Motel Prague) reminds Chanel Lady of the overseas trip she went on with her late husband. She'due south been staying in that location after her married man died, waiting for their son to come back.
Understanding the lonely Chanel Lady better, Hye-ja befriends her by listening to stories virtually her family unit and past adventures. Hye-ja's carefree mental attitude about their age too rubs off on Chanel Lady. Soon, the two become fast friends. Hye-ja starts to understand why Joon-ha might exist doing Chanel Lady a favor later all, pretending to requite her a line of communication with her son. Through her, Hye-ja also learns the missing piece in Joon-ha'due south story: the fact that he tin't be a reporter anymore considering of what he did to his begetter.
Hye-ja looks for Joon-ha to repent about interfering in his life decisions, just Joon-ha is in a dark mood later on his thuggish co-worker accuses him of acting upright while setting his sights on the rich Chanel Lady'due south coin. (Joon-ha refuses to sell insurance policies to the elders with the exhibit hall named as beneficiaries, a far larger scam than expensive wellness drinks.)
Hye-ja tries to comfort Joon-ha, saying that she knows he's a good person, but he doesn't want her expectations because he knows himself that he's at rock bottom correct now. He begs her to leave him solitary as he's barely surviving, and Hye-ja is shocked to realize how damaged he is inside. Hye-ja comes home to the sound of her parents fighting and cries at this cleaved new reality, praying hard to render to the time when everything was okay.
She wakes upwardly miraculously young once more with Dad live and completely salubrious. She too gets to Joon-ha just in time to prevent him from hurting himself and framing his father. With Hye-ja there to support him, Joon-ha doesn't sink into despair and even asks her out on a date. At the cease of which she makes him promise to go a reporter no affair what, while he makes her promise to be his girlfriend no affair what. But Hye-ja finds herself fading and realizes it's a dream. She hugs Joon-ha and apologizes that she can't help him after all.
Having dreamed abroad her frustrations, Hye-ja wakes up filled with resolve to live her current life instead of wallowing in regret. She agrees to do Yeong-soo's Hye-ja broadcast in substitution for ninety% of the profits, hah. She also cheerily picks up Chanel Lady so they can get to the exhibit hall together, making light of the fact that they vesture diapers now. We see her being friendlier with the exhibit hall regulars and appreciative of the facilities. It marks another milestone towards Hye-ja embracing her age.
THE Return OF THE Sentry
Hye-ja'due south acceptance of her lot is tested one last time when she sees an old man in the exhibit hall wearing her not-broken magic watch. The catatonic grandpa only shows signs of (angry) life when you talk about his watch or, strangely, when Joon-ha approaches him.
Earlier Hye-ja tin can formulate a plan to get her watch back, the grandpa stops coming to the showroom hall. Hye-ja asks the constabulary for help looking for him but they dismiss her. Exterior, she spots a fellow wearing the same watch and tries but fails to hunt him. Her twenty-four hours doesn't get any meliorate when she finds her parents' divorce papers hidden in a box at home. Information technology makes it even more imperative that she notice the watch and fix everything back to rights.
Hye-ja won't permit the grandpa out of her sight the side by side fourth dimension he shows up at the exhibit hall. Armed with proof that the watch tin bring back one's youth, she tells Joon-ha that "Hye-ja" is looking for a manner to come back. You can see him struggling to non intendance, only he can't help but ask when. "Soon" is all Hye-ja can hope.
"Soon" means that aforementioned afternoon as Hye-ja makes a desperate dive for the erstwhile man's watch, in plain view of everyone. It gets her kicked out of the hall for stealing, and even Joon-ha won't believe that the picket was originally hers. She keeps saying she needs to fix her life and his. Joon-ha, tired of this grandma swinging repeatedly from acceptance to deprival, begs her to finish trying to fix him too.
Later that nighttime, Hye-ja discovers that Dad didn't simply sprain his leg in the accident. He lost it from the knee down. She'south devastated that the watch took something else from her family unit and tin can but apologize to Dad over and over. She thinks to herself, "I thought that the off-white toll for Dad'south life was my youth, dreams, and honey. Only it was as foolish as a kid trying to purchase an expensive gift with but 10 cents in hand."
Thus reminded of the consequences of messing with time and fearful of what it will toll to get her youth dorsum, she turns her efforts to repairing her broken family now. She takes Mom to the hole-and-corner udon place, making Mom laugh that the "undercover" was just a dingy sometime spot that serves noodles. She praises Mom for putting up with her kids and frustrating husband, assuring Mom that she'll side with her in a divorce. Mom cries into her noodles, and I tin can't help but wonder how much it's been bothering her all these years to not have the affection of her kids as the "bad cop" in the family unit.
Hye-ja gets permission to visit the hall once again. She apologizes to Watch Grandpa and says she hopes that whatever he used the scout for was worth information technology.
Hye-ja lets Joon-ha become besides. She tells him that her niece Hye-ja has no plans to return after all, but that she wishes the best for him. Joon-ha reveals that he's planning to leave to. Now at that place's nothing and no 1 to look for, it's goodbye for them.
There'southward one more than thing that needs to exist settled though. Joon-ha finally tells Chanel Lady the truth about her son not responding to the letters. She's saddened to larn that the replies were fake, merely on the morning of Joon-ha's divergence, Chanel Lady tells him that she plant her son in Seoul. Joon-ha takes her to the address and waits for her exterior. She comes back xx minutes later gushing about her grandson and how she's fix to take lunch with them on the weekend. She and then sends Joon-ha off at the airport as a manner of proverb all is forgiven.
Joon-ha'due south flying is delayed until the next day but before he tin can board, the cops inquire to take his statement: Chanel Lady was establish floating lifelessly in a river that morning. There's no evidence of foul play merely Joon-ha doesn't remember it's suicide either, every bit she was looking forward to reconnecting with her family. Filing it as an accident, the cops are about to dismiss Joon-ha when new evidence comes to light. Chanel Lady named him the beneficiary of her insurance payout.
The seniors and their relatives are in an uproar, making sure that no one else signed over their rights to Hyoja Exhibit Hall. Simply one of Hye-ja's granny friends shames the rumor-mongers for even thinking that Joon-ha would do such a thing, citing all the instances he went out of his way to take care of them. Meanwhile, Hye-ja is causing another ruckus at the station demanding to meet Joon-ha, knowing he'southward in a night place once again with no one to comfort him. He'south no longer lone though. Hyun-joo, Sang-eun, and Yeong-soo also arrive, Hye-ja's senior friends in tow, to demand the release of Joon-ha.
But the all-time defense comes in the form of Chanel Lady's farewell letter of the alphabet, sent past mail to Joon-ha. In information technology, she admits that her son was very short to her and didn't desire to talk nearly his family unit. He as well declined her invitation to reconnect. He patently doesn't need or want her in his life.
Joon-ha is released. He presides over the wake (because useless son is consistently existence useless by refusing to bear witness upwards). The show twists the knife further by finishing Chanel Lady's letter. In information technology, she thanks Joon-ha for writing the fake letters, and she wishes to be reborn as his mother.
Hye-ja approaches a mourning Joon-ha and tells him the eighty-yr-onetime version of young Hye-ja's spoken communication. "To others I'm an old person with nothing to look forward to and no point in regretting anything… merely I'thousand important to myself. I promise you and your life also mean a lot to you."
Hye-ja checks in on Joon-ha a couple of days later and finds him in (relatively) meliorate spirits. He reveals that he'll button through with his delayed trip to run across the Aurora Borealis, and all of a sudden Hye-ja realizes just how of import she was to him.
Dorsum when they were doing their pity party, Joon-ha called himself an unwanted kid, a mistake. Hye-ja all of a sudden blabbered on about her dream to come across the Aurora Borealis. She explained that they're a natural anomaly. No 1 planned for them to exist, just they're beautiful just the same. (Aww, no wonder Joon-ha fell for you.)
In the present, Hye-ja asks him if he doesn't hate her niece. Later all, she left without a give-and-take, promised to render, then broke that hope besides. Joon-ha says that he can't hate her or her niece because they were the outset people to cry for his pain. Information technology made him realize that he was the one who made himself suffer the most, by declining to value himself. Hye-ja cries once more and urges him to bustle and leave then he tin see the Northern Lights and call back of her niece.
The next forenoon, the showroom hall boss, HEE-WON (Kim Hee-won), and his lackey barge into Joon-ha's business firm. Hee-won seems convinced that Joon-ha is hiding some inheritance from Chanel Lady AND planning to report him to the police for selling insurance policies to their charges. They have Joon-ha and lock him away while they hatch an Evil Plan™ to make quick money.
Hye-ja senses something is wrong and Joon-ha didn't leave on his own. She visits the exhibit hall and is surprised to find it reopened (it had to close down after the insurance scandal in Chanel Lady's case, fifty-fifty though Joon-ha was cleared of charges). Hye-ja discovers that Hee-won is organizing a "field trip" for the elders, but not everyone is invited. When Hye-ja does a head count, those who didn't buy an insurance under Hyoja'due south proper name were left out. Spotter Grandad tries to tell her something virtually Joon-ha, simply he's wheeled away by ane of the lackeys.
Hye-ja yet figures out Hee-won's dastardly plan to orchestrate a travel accident with all the insured seniors. She as well knows they're hiding Joon-ha to end him from revealing their plans. Hye-ja, with the aid of the ex-gangster granddaddy who has a beat out on her, organizes the remaining seniors to mountain a two-pronged rescue.
You lot have to watch information technology to believe information technology, because it'south equal parts brilliant and cool. But basically, Hye-ja's team manages to (ane) "release" the seniors waiting for their picnic bus under lookout man of lots of thugs, and (2) rescue Joon-ha and Spotter Grandpa from the bowels of Hyoja Showroom Hall. And this with only a has-been gangster, a blind grandpa, a pair of old twins who wouldn't hurt a fly, a grandma on a walker, a dog-lover grandfather, and a kleptomaniac grandma on her side.
The group of seniors and the rescued hostages continue a trip, laughing in the bus at their escape. Later, they all sit companionably at the pier, watching the sunset. When Hye-ja approaches Watch Grandpa to fix his coating, he shakily takes off the watch and tries to requite information technology to her, dropping information technology in the process.
Hye-ja sees an inscription at the back of the watch and hears her younger self saying, "It's HJ and JH for Hye-ja and Joon-ha" followed by glimpses of the watch looking brand new on a display. Joon-ha in a tux with erstwhile-fashioned hair, Hye-ja beside him in a wedding dress.
Hye-ja hunches over in pain as a avalanche of memories come rushing in. When she stands upwardly to attempt to get her bearings, she'due south alone on the pier. In the distance, Mom and Dad arrive with an ambulance, Dad repeatedly shouting Mom! Hye-ja turns back to the body of water and finds the young Hye-ja continuing in that location in mourning apparel, a box of ashes on one hand and a picayune boy's mitt in the other.
Nosotros see her memories, scenes that we've watched for the past few episodes, superimposed over parallel scenes of a different era. A little boy in a car accident. A beaten-upward Joon-ha. A proposal in a field.
Hye-ja wakes upward in a infirmary room and nosotros see that when she calls out to Mom and Dad she's seeing totally different, younger faces. A human who looks like Joon-ha walks in to confer with her md, introducing himself as Dr. Kim Sang-hyun from the senior care heart.
Hye-ja thinks to herself, "It feels like I woke upwards from a long dream, but I'm non sure if it was the younger me dreaming of when I was old, or the older me dreaming of when I was immature."
In a moment of lucidness, she tells us that she's suffering from Alzheimer'southward.
COMMENTS
Oh no… ohnonono, Hye-ja. This was totally unexpected though it explains the sometimes disruptive mix of mundane and fantastical that we've seen so far. It makes sense in retrospect, simply I don't think the bear witness was doing it for us to play a guessing game. Calorie-free has always been about following Hye-ja's journey as all-time as information technology can. From the physical, emotional, and social aspects of growing sometime… at present information technology turns out information technology's been showing usa her mental struggle to make sense of her reality likewise.
Should you sentry, knowing the twist? My respond is a resounding yeah. In fact, it'south improved by knowing the twist because the sharp turns in tone and logic make more than sense. And instead of puzzlement, you lot enjoy the scenes more considering you sympathize what's happening. Unless you hate existence sad, considering the rewatch is full of tiny, heartbreaking details. Like that scene when Hye-ja shows up at Dad's work and pretends to be his mom. The look of surprise Ahn Nae-sang gives Kim Hye-ja when she says that, and the sad look he gives her when everyone else is gone and she apologizes for pretending to be his mom. ( Only during the rewatch did I sympathize what Dad meant by his answer, "It felt reassuring because you stood on my side." How much loneliness and gratitude was packed into that line? To have your parent beside you lot and as well NOT take them abreast you anymore… it's just cruel. Why do these things happen, World?
They say that memories are tied to emotions. That's why when our capacity to remember starts to fail, the moments which hateful more us to are the ones that get left behind. I'g non expecting a happy ending because Alzheimer's doesn't accept one. But I'chiliad taking a little condolement in the fact that if Hye-ja is holding on so stubbornly to these memories, there must exist something precious there. She'southward lived a precious (non easy) life. Non a lot of people fifty-fifty have that.
I hope that the concluding episodes show that part of Hye-ja that she'due south trying hard to hold on to. Non necessarily the youth or the health, just the part where she was really happy. Maybe it'south dumb to be fastened to a fictional grapheme, simply her brain is fighting and then hard to push her story to the surface, I want to at to the lowest degree preserve those memories for her.
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