(Park Kkot’s Movie Garden) We had a difference of opinion

Husband died. A fire broke out in the factory where I worked. Although the company’s negligence was an obvious industrial accident, several years were wasted without finding clear evidence because the CCTV was not disclosed on the day of the incident for one reason or another.

The problem is that a ‘difference in position’ has arisen between the bereaved families, who seemed to be in the same situation, while time passed without anything being resolved. The young employees who died that day along with their manager husband were irregular workers. Parents who lost their children set up a tent in front of the company and went on an indefinite sit-in, and her wife, Hye-jeong (Kim Seon-yeong), suddenly became ‘the wife of an irresponsible middle manager who left her young man to die’. Hye-jeong is also one of the victims who lost her precious family, so she joins in the struggle against the company, but she is lonely and distressed to know that she is the only one who believes in the innocence of her husband who no longer exists.

The Korean film ‘Dream Palace’ directed by Ka Sung-moon, released on May 31st, is a work that realistically depicts the process in which subtle but clear differences of opinion arise between those who appear to be the same victims. The contradiction and tragedy that the story reveals is that sometimes the difference in position accumulates and can lead to hating each other more than the company that provided the fundamental cause of the situation.

Exhausted to the point of exhaustion, Hye-jeong decides to give up the struggle after receiving the settlement money from the company. She intends to use the money to buy the right to move into a nearby unsold apartment and provide a stable life for her only son, who has just turned 3 in high school. However, the story is not solved by this, but becomes more complicated. When Hye-jeong hears that her husband (Lee Yoon-ji) has given up her struggle and agreed to receive her settlement money, she is forced to raise her child alone, just like herself. recommend coming in

Coincidentally, the developer, who has been suffering from unsold sales for a long time, comes out with a ‘extra discount sale’ card at this point. Hye-jeong bought the apartment, and Soo-in signed a contract for a 30% discount. Hye-jeong’s heart becomes complicated when the apartment she bought with money equivalent to her husband’s life is sold at a bargain price. When the people who moved in ahead of her put up protest placards and sternly block the people who bought the lot at a cheap price from moving, she decides that Hye-Jung will join the ranks. Outside the apartment door, she knows that Soo-in’s moving car is holding on as she tries to move her luggage somehow.

‘Dream Palace’, which lost its luck at the sit-in where the victims of an industrial accident had an emotional fight, moves the story to the scene of a physical fight between the victims of an unsold apartment at some point, but the essence of the story is the same. The company or implementer that provided the cause of the incident is missing somewhere, and only the people who have been harmed gather together and fight to the point of bursting, only checking each other’s difference in position, leaving deep wounds that cannot be healed.

It’s only after a lot of time has passed that we realize that the difference in positions that made them growl as if they couldn’t get along with each other was futile. The company eventually admits the industrial accident, and the struggle is over. Hye-jeong learns from the belatedly released CCTV that her husband did his best to extinguish her fire as her manager, but since she has already cut ties with other bereaved families, she has no one to rejoice with. does not exist. As the real estate market changes, the unsold apartment situation naturally comes to an end.

At the end of the film, Hye-jeong, who received a moving rice cake from her neighbor, who probably moved in a long time after her without knowing why, sits alone at a table with no one around and chews on the rice cake. Hyejeong thinks in that quiet time, when the events that made me fight with my surroundings in the past no longer make any noise. We had a difference in position, and we left a lot of scars, but that was all.