When my father entered the ICU before his passing, I wondered the same thing? What was my father feeling? Was he fighting in his sleep? Was he in pain?
Those were the questions in my head. Then it felt like I got a bit of an idea when I finished a short Korean drama called Light Shop which only amounted to eight episodes.
If a drama usually focuses on the central character then developed and assisted by other additional characters to make the story more complex, but that is not the case in a short drama entitled LIGHT SHOP.
Light Shop centres the story on all the components of the characters who participate in this drama. So who is the centre? I believe all the characters are central. The play focuses on two lives: a hospital ICU ward with patients who are victims of a bus accident that plunged into the Han River and a dark alley at the end of which is a brightly lit light shop guarded by a mysterious man named Jun Won-Young (Ju Ji-Hoon).
Light Shop tells the journey of spirits who are on the verge of death. All the spirits here are patients in the ICU ward which is guarded by a nurse who can see the spirits of the dead named Kwon Young-Ji (Park Bo Young).
The spirits who are in a coma are described as being lost in a scary dark alley. At first they don't realise that they are not where they should be. They continue to feel that they have to pass through the dark alley until they feel exhausted and frightened. Until at the end of the story they realise that the Light Shop at the end of the alley is where their souls should be found in order to return to their respective bodies and wake up.
What's exciting about the story of character after character in Light Shp is that everyone lives their own story and everything is not in vain. It is up to the viewer to choose which character's story they think is the best.
There is a couple whose love is not approved, starring Kim Seol-Hyun and Uhm Tae-Goo.
There's an inseparable mother-daughter duo starring Shin Eun-Soo and Lee Jung-Eun. A pair of women in a romantic relationship are played very well by Kom Min-Ha and Kim Seon-Hwa. A pair of lost men and a rescue dog. A pair of detective hunters and suspects being hunted, or a pair of basketball fan boys and the little boy they help.
Everything is so well packaged that I as a viewer was moved by the way they chose to come back to their senses or choose not to come back forever. I most remember the great quote ‘In the end, it all depends on the patient's determination to live’.
That's the review of the short drama I just finished watching. Thank you for reading.
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