South Korean Film 2012
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Love 911 (South Korean Movie Review & Summary)
Love 911 poster
- Genre: Romance, Rescue, Fire-Fighting, Medical
- Release Date: 2012
- Origin: South Korea
- Film: 120 minutes
Cast:
- Go Soo – Kang-il
- Han Hyo-joo – Mi-soo
- Ma Dong-seok – Fire station captain
- Kim Sung-oh – Yong-soo, firefighter
- Juni – Hyun-kyung, firefighter
- Jin Seo-yeon – Ha-yoon
- Oh Soo-min – Ji-young, Kang-il’s dead wife
- Lee Do-ah – psychiatrist
- Jo Min-ki – Chief Doctor
- Yang Dong-geun – Detective Bang Je-soo
- Jung Jin-young – policeman
- Jo Kyoung-hoon – patient’s husband
- Kim Seo-kyung – Young-mo
I should not really like this movie because the character of the female lead is not the best and the male lead had just lost his beloved wife not five minutes into the start of the film. 🙁
But kudos to Han Hyo Joo and Go Soo, they were able to make the characters been seen in a more sympathetic sort of way.
Mi Soo was an ambitious but rather overworked doctor. She was on duty when a patient with a thuggish looking husband turned up in the hospital. The woman had been suffering from incessant headaches.
After a cursory examination of the patient and looking at her record history, Mi Soo decided that the woman was not suffering from any serious illness but assumed that she was being beaten up by her thuggish husband based on the bruises the woman got.
Ha Yoon, another consulting doctor and best friend of Mi Soo was overruled from wanting to report the beating to the police or perhaps the bruises might even be a side-effect of medication.
Despite the husband’s insistence that they took a closer look at his wife, Mi Soo was adamant that a headache pill was all that was needed and sent the patient away.
Kang Il was a firefighter who was still grieving for his dead wife. His lose made him a bit of a daredevil.
The firefighters came across a husband who was absolutely frantic as his wife had collapsed on the street.
This husband and wife were, of course, the people who had just been to the hospital and had seen Mi Soo.
The patient was brought to the hospital. It was later revealed that the wife had a brain aneurysm and it could have been operated if she was diagnosed properly, instead the wife was now in a coma.
The husband went mental and wanted to do Mi Soo harm but Kang Il who escorted the couple to the hospital prevented that man who was going berserk. Unfortunately for Kang Il, the bullish man gave him a bloodied nose.
The husband lodged a complaint against Mi Soo.
Mi Soo was warned by the chief doctor that her case may have a dire repercussion to her career as a doctor especially if the patient ended up dead.
Mi Soo was suspended pending an investigation. Hayoon was also suspended.
Mi Soo consulted a lawyer and was told that she had to get something against the husband of her patient. Mi Soo was advised to get the firefighter with the bloodied nose to sue the patient’s husband.
And this ensues Mi Soo’s pursuit of Kang Il.
Her aggressive pursuit of Kang Il ended in Mi Soo being taken to the police, which was a blessing in disguise for her because she was given community service and her choice was to volunteer at the fire brigade.
Mi Soo was really pretty but tend to faint a lot, which brought out the caring side to Kang Il.
Before long they had become lovers.
Mi Soo then confessed to Kang Il that she needed his help regarding her case.
Kang Il told her to apologise to the husband but Mi Soo said that if she apologised she would impair her case.
Kang Il was a very upright person and was disappointed with Mi Soo. They ended up breaking up.
She tried to make up with Kang Il but he was still not receptive with her plea.
Mi Soo, in the end, apologised to the patient’s husband, whose wife had been declared brain dead.
After another fainting spell, Mi Soo had an MRI scan and found a benign tumour in her brain which operable.
On the day she was going to be operated, she heard over the radio that Kang Il had been involved in an accident. He was buried in rubbles and it was not looking good.
The firefighters were in tears about the faith of their comrade.
Mi Soo got out of Hayoon’s car while stuck on traffic and started running towards where Kang Il where he had an accident.
Kang Il was miraculously dug up still breathing. He was in an ambulance with his colleagues, Yong Soo and Hyun Kyung (are firefighters also act as paramedics in South Korea?). They were crying on Kang Il’s battered body but he suddenly sat up having had a dream of Mi Soo teasing him.
He then realised that he was over grieving for his wife (who died 1hour 40 minutes ago, LOL) and he need to be with Mi Soo.
So with superhuman strength, he got out of the ambulance, which was stuck in traffic, and started running towards the hospital to be with Mi Soo.
At the hospital, he was told that Mi Soo had resigned.
He ran out again and there he saw a running Mi Soo.
They met up and had a romantic kiss a la officer and a gentleman. He was half carrying/hugging her upright on his chest and they shared a most romantic kiss.
Jobless, Mi Soo became a full-time loud snoring fire-fighter working alongside Kang Il.
The End