"It's Im Sung-han, as expected." Im Sung-han once again injected her distinct creative world into viewers by introducing a ghost character in 'Doctor Shin'.
On the night of the 22nd, episode 4 of the TV CHOSUN weekend drama 'Doctor Shin' depicted the mother Hyun Ran-hee (Song Ji In) who transferred her brain into her daughter Momo (Baek Seora).
Earlier in the drama, the top actress female lead Momo was losing her mind and soul as her brain deteriorated ahead of her wedding to Shin Ju-shin (Jung Yi-chan). To save Momo, Hyun Ran-hee and Shin Ju-shin moved Hyun Ran-hee's brain into Momo's body in place of Momo's damaged brain. Momo's damaged brain was transferred into Hyun Ran-hee's aging body. Afterward, a bizarre second act of life unfolded for the mother and daughter, with Hyun Ran-hee's brain coexisting in Momo's body and Momo's brain in Hyun Ran-hee's body.
However, strictly speaking, the second act of life was Hyun Ran-hee's to enjoy. While Hyun Ran-hee's body lost consciousness and fell asleep, Hyun Ran-hee in Momo's body turned the air conditioner to a low temperature and even prepared a suicide note, causing death by hypothermia. After that, although only the body was Momo's, the person who lived was effectively Hyun Ran-hee in soul and behavior.
The urban legend that a soul moves with the brain and that sleeping with the air conditioner on high can cause death by hypothermia was realized in the drama. On top of that, Hyun Ran-hee's soul overlapped like a ghost on the revived Momo's body, completing Im Sung-han's trademark ghost character.
Moreover, Shin Ju-shin, the doctor who even performed the brain surgery, completed 'Doctor Shin's' soul swap when he saw Hyun Ran-hee's soul in the body of the woman he loved, Momo, and experienced a hallucination of the dead Hyun Ran-hee's body overlapping with Momo's corpse.
Furthermore, Hyun Ran-hee's desires began to bloom through Momo. While saying, "You can accept things as they appear. The one who is dead is Hyun Ran-hee," she nonetheless subtly reached out to undo the tie of her son-in-law Shin Ju-shin with her daughter's body in a quietly seductive gesture. She even shed fake tears in front of Ha Yong-jung (An Woo Yeon), who came to comfort Momo, while thinking, "You're not going to hug me?", beginning to reshape those around her in her own way. Hyun Ran-hee, inhabiting her young and beautiful daughter's body, began to be twisted by desire.
Like human desire that can veer anywhere, the unpredictable developments are too precarious and crossing the line to be merely the charm of an Im Sung-han work. Whether it will ultimately craft a story that viewers will curse yet accept, or end in catastrophe once again amid cries of 'makjang,' the trajectory of 'Doctor Shin' is drawing close attention.
[Photo] Source: TV CHOSUN.
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