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49 days



1.Orientation :
49 days is a korean drama series which release on March 16, 2011. This film is directed by Jo Young Kwang, starring by Lee Yo Won as Song Yi Kyung , Nam Gyu Ri as Shin Ji Hyun , Jo Hyun Jae as Han Kang, Bae Soo Bin as Kang Min Ho, Jung Il Woo as Scheduler / Song Yi Soo, and Seo Ji Hye as Shin In Jung. Genre of this film is fantasy, and romance. This film is produced in South Korea.

2.Interpretative Recaunt :
The film tells about peoples’ destinies and true love. This film begin when Shin Ji Hyun, a girl that gets into a big car accident a few days before her wedding. Her soul walks around and she meets the scheduler, the one that decides when someone dies. He tells Ji Hyun that she has 49 days to get three drops of tears in order to return to her body and become conscious again. Three drops of tears each from someone that is crying because of her. During the day, she lives in the body of Song Yi Kyung who is a woman that lost her family when she was a little girl and lived in the orphanage. Yi Kyung lives alone several years after her best friend’s death and she doesn’t care about her life and career. Through her 49 days, Ji Hyun discovers that her fiance cheated on her and is trying to steal her family’s assets. She also discovers that her long time friend, Han Kang, is the man that truly loves her. After a few days finally, Ji Hyun get 3 drops of tears of the people who really love her. On the day she woke up, the scheduler informed her that she is the last name on his schedule and he will take her back in 6 days. As she knows that she was meant to die regardless of the tears, she decided to show the people in her life that she lived happily and send them a sweet farewell.

3.Evaluation :
The film became interesting because this film offered some funny parts where we can laugh but on the other hand, cried a lot because of some devastating scenes. It worshiped the divinity of love, taught us the real human figures and personalities, ambitions, etc. Beside that, his film has an unexpected ending story, and caused us to have conflicting feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction. We’re first led to believe that Yi kyung sheds the last tear for Jihyun, but then we get another surprise as Yikyung is blood-related to Jihyun, so there’s no way that she could’ve done that. And then in the last episode, we find out that she’s actually going to return to death. She has been scheduled to die in a matter of days right after she comes back to life from her coma. We reach the climax and we are made to believe that the resolution will be a joyful one, but in the end, Jihyun dies.

4.Evaluation Situation :
We almost can’t find the weakness of this film. But there is a scene that can’t be trusted, there is how the souls will really inhabit other souls to fulfill missions so that they can return to life – it’s like playing with death. We also think that for four people to find out that Jihyun’s ghost existed in the body of Song Yikyung was far-fetched. It’s sort of ridiculous.