This is a tale of two families. The Bok family is wealthy and contains a mother Man-Heum and father Sun-Gu, a daughter Dong-hee son Gwi-ju (Gwi-joo), and Gwi-ju's daughter I-na. The other "family" is a gang of scam artists led by Baek Il-Hong, enforcer Noh Hyeong-Tae, assistant Grace Kang, and our heroine Do Da-hae. The mainspring of the tale is the relation between Gwi-ju and Da-hae. At first they are distant but ultimately in love.
The Bok family has superpowers. Mother Man-Heum has dreams that reveal aspects of the future, which made the Bok family rich by using foreknowledge to buy lottery tickets and stocks in the present that they knew would be winners in the future. The daughter Dong-hee can fly, an occasionally useful ability. The son, our protagonist Gwi-ju, can travel backwards in time. His daughter I-na can read minds.
At the beginning of our tale, the Bok family has lost use of their powers. The mother cannot sleep and has no dreams, the daughter is too heavy from overeating to fly, the son is too depressed to time travel, and his daughter I-na is keeping her mind reading under wraps because she finds what people think to be disturbing.
And the gang of scammers has identified that the Boks are malfunctioning and decide they can scam the family and get rich. To implement their scam they get our heroine Da-hae accepted as help into the Bok family, where the Bok family finds her to be an antidote to their despondency. She becomes key to the Boks' recovery from anarchy.
That is the set up, and the rest of the tale is the uneven progress of the two families and the evolution of the feelings between Gwi-ju and Da-hae.
The acting here is convincing, and there are many heartfelt moments that keep things going. So I was engaged. But I found the story confusing because it keeps shifting gears. The role of the superpowers keeps changing, so their uses are disconcertingly redefined as things move along.
At first the mother's dreams predict the future. Later they are only suggestive of the future. At first the son can travel backward in time, but only as an observer. Later he can bring information from the present back with him to earlier times, where that information can be made use of to change the present when it arrives.
The other confusion which is at the basis of the tale is that Gwi-ju is determined to travel backwards in time to long years ago to save Da-hae when she was trapped in a fire when very young. Why that was necessary is unclear because, as Da-hae points out to Gwi-ju, here she is in the present, so obviously she was saved from the long-ago fire.
Suddenly the plot changes and the fire is now, or is it? And Gwi-ju is killed in the fire. Or was he?
By and large the story is engaging. The actors do well. But the trajectory of the tale is erratic and seems to rewrite the plot capriciously time and again. Which in my view detracts from appreciation of what was achieved.
The Bok family has superpowers. Mother Man-Heum has dreams that reveal aspects of the future, which made the Bok family rich by using foreknowledge to buy lottery tickets and stocks in the present that they knew would be winners in the future. The daughter Dong-hee can fly, an occasionally useful ability. The son, our protagonist Gwi-ju, can travel backwards in time. His daughter I-na can read minds.
At the beginning of our tale, the Bok family has lost use of their powers. The mother cannot sleep and has no dreams, the daughter is too heavy from overeating to fly, the son is too depressed to time travel, and his daughter I-na is keeping her mind reading under wraps because she finds what people think to be disturbing.
And the gang of scammers has identified that the Boks are malfunctioning and decide they can scam the family and get rich. To implement their scam they get our heroine Da-hae accepted as help into the Bok family, where the Bok family finds her to be an antidote to their despondency. She becomes key to the Boks' recovery from anarchy.
That is the set up, and the rest of the tale is the uneven progress of the two families and the evolution of the feelings between Gwi-ju and Da-hae.
The acting here is convincing, and there are many heartfelt moments that keep things going. So I was engaged. But I found the story confusing because it keeps shifting gears. The role of the superpowers keeps changing, so their uses are disconcertingly redefined as things move along.
At first the mother's dreams predict the future. Later they are only suggestive of the future. At first the son can travel backward in time, but only as an observer. Later he can bring information from the present back with him to earlier times, where that information can be made use of to change the present when it arrives.
The other confusion which is at the basis of the tale is that Gwi-ju is determined to travel backwards in time to long years ago to save Da-hae when she was trapped in a fire when very young. Why that was necessary is unclear because, as Da-hae points out to Gwi-ju, here she is in the present, so obviously she was saved from the long-ago fire.
Suddenly the plot changes and the fire is now, or is it? And Gwi-ju is killed in the fire. Or was he?
By and large the story is engaging. The actors do well. But the trajectory of the tale is erratic and seems to rewrite the plot capriciously time and again. Which in my view detracts from appreciation of what was achieved.
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