Actor Seo Ji-hye completed a revenge drama in Reverse.
On the 8th, the Wavve original series Reverse concluded. In this context, Seo Ji-hye played the female lead Ham Myo-jin and, with a passionate performance, brought the mystery revenge drama to a close.
Ham Myo-jin called Ryu Jun-ho (Go Soo) to her atelier and exposed his criminal acts. The audio recording he obtained from Wang Ki-chul (Yoon Je-moon) contained Lee Jong-soo's (Yu Hyun-soo) words saying that Ryu Jun-ho killed Ham Myo-jin's parents. In response, Ham Myo-jin showed determined resolve by swinging a knife at Ryu Jun-ho, who was confessing that he had to obey Choi Hee-soo (Kim Jae-kyung) and Choi Young-ho (Nam Kyung-eub) in the past for wealth and fame.
But Ham Myo-jin's revenge was blocked by Ryu Jun-ho's madness. Overpowered by Ryu Jun-ho, the kidnapped Ham Myo-jin faced the desperate threat of being burned to death along with the vehicle. Barely escaping, Ham Myo-jin was able to get away from Ryu Jun-ho with the help of the detectives who came to rescue her. When Ham Myo-jin visited the fallen Ryu Jun-ho, who had been shot by the detectives, she drew a line when asked whether he had killed Choi Hee-soo, saying, "Don't be curious."
Ham Myo-jin's murmured words, "I will slowly destroy you until your whole body rots away. Please die slowly," left a strong impression. This scene, enhanced by Seo Ji-hye's relaxed smile, remained the most brutal and perfect full stop to the revenge.
The cruel truth behind the villa explosion finally surfaced. On the day of the accident, when Ham Myo-jin confronted Choi Hee-soo, she was horrified after watching a video showing her childhood hometown being filmed. In the past, Choi Hee-soo, who had a drunk driving accident just before entering a prestigious university, injured Ham Myo-jin's father, and Ryu Jun-ho committed arson to cover it up.
Unable to believe the truth, Ham Myo-jin screamed and swung the kitchen knife on the table. In this process, Seo Ji-hye overwhelmed the scene by conveying the fleeting sense of emptiness and anger that flashed across her face at the moment she recoiled from her own actions. Her intense performance, which did not lose composure even in extreme situations, convincingly completed the character's tragic narrative.
But the story did not end there. Back in daily life, when the psychiatrist who visited her asked, "When did it start. When you began hiding the returned memory," she did not deny it. It turned out that Ham Myo-jin had not lost her memory but had been deliberately feigning amnesia to exact revenge.
It was revealed that Ham Myo-jin had been paying attention to Ryu Jun-ho's crimes even after being taken into the operating room immediately after the car accident, delivering a chilling twist. While remembering everything, Ham Myo-jin meticulously hid herself and waited for an opportunity, and Seo Ji-hye's dense performance combined to produce an intense thrill.
There was another twist as well. Visiting the memorial park where her parents slept, Ham Myo-jin suddenly recalled Choi Hee-soo's question, "Have you ever received a gift?" The fact that Choi Hee-soo, who is afraid of sharp objects, had left a kitchen knife on the table was actually to help Ham Myo-jin's revenge. Ham Myo-jin realizing this belatedly left both shock and lingering resonance.
In the mystery narrative of Reverse, which repeats twists, Seo Ji-hye delivered fierce emotional performances that ranged across reason, anger and obsession. Attention is focused on Seo Ji-hye's next move, which showed a deeper emotional line. <
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