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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Three Days" Episode 12

So apparently Do-jin is just straight up a completely crazy person. I had thought this drama was being a bit over the top with the whole evil corporate action stuff but other corporate types involved in the evil scheme actually manage to call Do-jin out for going too far. On some level the problems with Do-jin's plans really shouldn't be that hard to explain. If the police have found the bombs, it stands to reason they have evidence which will probably wreck the whole false flag operation part of the death and destruction. Without that, there's not really much point to the bombs in the first place from a corporate perspective.

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It's actually a fairly interesting metaphor. Old school political types just shoot the breeze with crazy ideas that might equal financial and electoral success. Then the new people who are listening fail to get the winking joking tone and decide that these outrageous ideas have an infinite shelf life. This leaves us with Do-jin continuously doubling down on attacks, even though at this point it's hard to imagine how he could possibly succeed. The guy's just threatening murder on general principle now.

I get the sense that the drama is trying to make Do-jin seem threatening, but as real as the danger is the guy just comes off as a buffoon. His henchman, likewise, look like suckers. Is there any good reason to single out Tae-kyeong and Bo-won specifically? They might be the main characters, but at this point Do-jin is fighting the entire criminal justice system under the assumption that without evidence he's immune to any danger.

On balance the episode is fairly entertaining, because looked at this way, the convoluted nature of the storyline actually makes a fair amount of sense, which is an essential boost to comprehensibility. Right now I have trouble remembering how many days it's been. Given that there's only supposed to be "Three Days" in the entire drama, the lack of a clearly structured timeline is confusing, and does a lot to inhibit the pacing.

The characterization does strike a good note, though, as we explore a new emotion- romance. And by explore I mean the soundtrack and scene context strongly implies that Tae-kyeong and Bo-won are supposed to get together at some point. There's not really any particularly good reason. I suppose that's one way to take advantage of a villain who tries to solve every problem with as much unnecessary violence as possible. It makes the idea of Bo-won needing protection actually somewhat believable.

Review by William Schwartz

"Three Days" is directed by Sin Kyeong-soo, written by Kim Eun-hee-I and features Park Yoo-chun, Son Hyun-joo, Park Ha-sun, So Yi-hyun, Yoon Je-moon, Choi Won-young and Jang Hyun-sung.

 

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