The final 30 minutes show her to be not so meek after all. But as the title and the cover both suggest, Ja-Yoon might be quite comfortable, coming to terms with her inner superwoman. This proves successful, and she meekly goes off to see Dr Baek at her new facility. Nobleman storming the farmhouse and threatening everyone Ja-Yoon cares about if she refuses to co-operate. Meanwhile, the villains are hovering nearby in ways which appear so obvious and suspicious, they would be rejected as painfully unsubtle by Auric Goldfinger.Įventually, even they realize a more direct approach is needed, i.e. Though when you hear her… ah, let’s just say “startling” and leave it at that, rendition of Danny Boy, you’ll wonder if perhaps she was selected as the Korean version of William Hung. For most of the first hour and a half, it’s mostly Ja-Yoon and perky best friend Myung-hee (Go) interacting and progressing through the competition.
Baek as someone specializing in giving no damns at all, this certainly takes its time to get going. The not-so-good doctor won’t let Ja-Yoon escape this time.Īfter a messy opening, which establishes Dr. Baek and Nobleman (Choi), the other survivor from that night a decade ago. However, the resulting attention brings her firmly back on the radar of Dr. Ten years later, with Mom suffering from Alzheimer’s, and the farm struggling financially, Ja-Yoon enters a nationwide singing contest. She is found by husband and wife farmers, and they adopt Ja-Yoon, who has no apparent memory of her early life as their own. The heroine is Ja-Yoon (Kim), who begins by escaping from a shadowy, quasi-governmental facility as a raw eight-year-old, despite being hunted by the woman in charge, Dr. The first in an intended trilogy, this stands on its own reasonably well, balancing between tying up the loose ends and leaving the future uncertain.
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