i think i missed something. what was her boss accusing her of when her son was first arrested?
how did she get the money to pay for her son's friend to interrogate/torture those two boys about ah-jung's cellphone?
awesome movie btw
Her boss at the beginning was accusing her of practicing acupuncture illegaly. The boss lady seemed to be married to a person of power (possibly a government official, I can't remember) and was telling her that her and her husband don't want her mixing them up in illegal activity.
As far as the money is concerned, that's a bit of a mystery, but one can assumer she got it from doing the acupuncture I guess. That's one resourceful woman so she could've just made something happen out of thin air.
Correct me if I'm wrong:
1) at the beginning of the movie she couldn't afford to pay for a Mercedes side-view mirror;
2) when Jin-tae demands money for false accusation of him, she can only give him very little money, which he accepts (it looked like her last money to me).
And then all of a sudden out of nowhere comes a solid chop of notes, right in time when it's so needed - to pay Jin-tae to beat up those softheads. Feels a bit stretchy to me, please, convince me I'm wrong.
At first I even thought, it was fake money made by her friend who corrected photos, but well, unfortunately, money was painfully real. So im confused. Otherwise great movie.
1. She wasn't going to jump and shell out the cash to fix the car belonging to someone who hit her son and ran, so she invoked lack of funds. As far as anyone knew, she was dirt poor, so why admitting to having the money to pay for the mirror?
2. The money she saved was supposedly meant to pay her debts, although I'd rather think she was probably obsessively saving money for years, from fear of becoming destitute or her son becoming helpless if she died or became too ill to take care of him. It's rather common for people who went through a shocking experince to start secretly accumulating cash and hiding it. Considering the experience she went through when she attempted to kill her son and herself because she couldn't find a solution to their miserably poor lives, I'm not surprised she managed to save a few bricks of cash...
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde