Lee Hyeon-jin (이현진)

2008/03/12 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Kim Myeong-min enlivens a solid medical thriller

By Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

"Wide Awake" ("Return") takes a real-life medical mystery, "intra-operative awareness" -- patients who remain fully conscious (and responsive to pain) but paralyzed during operations -- and weaves a revenge-themed mystery plot around it.

(Intra-operative awareness takes place shockingly more often than people realize. A North American survey claims that approximately 20,000 to 40,000 surgery patients suffer through it every year, with 30 percent of them feeling acute pain.)

The film opens with a young boy completely traumatized by his heart operation, the experience of feeling a scalpel cutting into his chest, a bone saw whine-grinding into his sternum and a doctor fingering through the insides of his body. Despite the boy's tearful protestations, no one believes him: it's 1980s Korea, after all.

Twenty-five years later, the doctors and nurses who had operated on him begin to die mysteriously.
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Kim Hye-seong of "High Kick!" and Lee Hyeon-jin of "Kimchi Cheese Smile" will be portraying homosexuals in a movie. Jo In-seong and Joo Jin-mo have portrayed homosexuals in Director Yoo Ha's movie, but there is great interest in these two, who are starring in an official queer movie.

Kim Hye-seong and Lee Hyeon-jin are the official main characters of the movie "Boy, Meets a Boy", which will start shooting in March. There has been great interest in this movie because Kim Jo Kwang-soo, who gained popularity with his queer movie, "No Regret", wrote the scenario and directed it.

Boy, Meets a Boy is a love story that begins with a boy who meets another boy, who stole his money, on a bus. Kim Hye-seong is Min-soo, who has been robbed, and Lee Hyeon-jin stars as a bad boy.

The producing company plans to donate proceedings to the gay support group, 'Between Friends', which has also planned to participate in the movie production.

There is great expectation to see how Kim Hye-seong a...

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Please put a subtitle(English), so foreigners can understand the story. Thanks! leononik 2008-03-15 08:20:19 leononik 2008-03-15 08:15:57 Being homosexual is not a major problem, in fact, it's a major factor to success. You know why a lot of countries are unsuccessful in being one of the top in the world, it's because of the descrimination between people. leononik 2008-03-15 08:11:46 leononik 2008-03-14 05:55:07 What are the rights of the homosexuals in the society! goo! KIM!! Goodluck! Well, all I can say is that do your best, Kim. You have my full-support for this movie. You're such a great actor and you can have a great future- in acting, of course. I just want you to make it authentic, don't hesitate to show what're th leononik 2008-03-14 05:49:06

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