I saw this film last night, and wanted to write a review for it. I've been buying a lot of films lately but haven't been watching them. So i'm trying to catch up. Anyway, i saw this yesterday. Kim Yoon-Jin (김윤진)plays a lawyer who has her daughter kidnapped. As ransom she has to prove a man innocent of a rape and murder, and she has less than seven days to do it. A friend of hers who's a cop {played by Park Hee-soon (박희순)} notices her strange behavior and knows there's a problem. So she tells him and he helps her as much as she can. As she looks for evidence she starts to think maybe the man wasn't the murderer after all. But the mother of the victim {played by Kim Mi-Sook (김미숙) knows he's the man responsible and hates Yun-Jin's character for being his lawyer. There were some parts of the film that i thought were a bit too much, especially when her daughter is kidnapped and she starts to look for her. At some points they use dissolves to transition from shot to shot while the camera is handheld. I thought it gave a too much of a dizzying affect that they wanted the audience to feel as Yoon-Jin might have during that time, but i think they could have had the same effect without the dissolves. But that's just my opinion. As word starts to spread that Yoon-Jins's character is now representing the defendant one of her rivals is appointed as the prosecution. As in Korean movies there are always plot twists and this is where the first one happens. Evidence proves that there were more people involved than originally thought.
As this happens she gets phone calls periodically through out the film from the Kidnappers telling her the condition of her daughter. Who gets sick while she's kidnapped and need of medical attention and threaten to let her die. Once she finds the evidence, the twist is revealed but this film has more than one. The second is at the very end of the film, when she proved the man innocent and has found her daughter. If you read some of my other reviews you know i don't like to give away too much information. I rather let the viewer find out for themselves. Where as i'm the opposite, I like to know the ending to films or TV shows before i watch them.
As this happens she gets phone calls periodically through out the film from the Kidnappers telling her the condition of her daughter. Who gets sick while she's kidnapped and need of medical attention and threaten to let her die. Once she finds the evidence, the twist is revealed but this film has more than one. The second is at the very end of the film, when she proved the man innocent and has found her daughter. If you read some of my other reviews you know i don't like to give away too much information. I rather let the viewer find out for themselves. Where as i'm the opposite, I like to know the ending to films or TV shows before i watch them.
