Parallel Life
(2010), originally called Pyeong-haeng-i-ron,
a thriller from South Korea, focuses at the beginning to the parallels between
the lives and deaths of Lincoln and Kennedy. Professor Sohn Ki-chul, a mathematical
genius conficted of killing his wife by poison, maintains that his life follows
that of another. He has even written a book about the mathematical impossibility
of coincidence. He ends up dying on a parallel day of the other mathematician.
Young judge Kim
Suk-hyun (Jin-hee Ji) who becomes Korea’s youngest appointed criminal court
head judge is told that his life parallels a judge who died 30 years before. That
judge’s family were murdered on the same day as the judge, after the earlier
murder of the man’s wife. When the judge’s wife is suddenly found murdered, the
Kim Suk-hyun begins to trace the parallels with the earlier judge in an attempt
to save his child and himself from murder.
Is life fated to follow a specific path or can it be
changed? That is the question of the film.
Handsome Jin-hee Ji makes an appealing hero, and although
the plot becomes somewhat predictable, the twists at the ending held my
interest.
Parallel Life (2010) *** (on Netflix streaming, with subtitles)
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