Park Bo-gum’s character in this film is filled with tragedy and helplessness, evoking deep emotions. He plays a ‘superhuman immortal,’ whose fate is destined to be extraordinary from the start. The film portrays a sense of profound sadness through his character. The entire film is permeated with a sense of oppression, as the superhuman’s fate is filled with hopelessness and pain. Created solely to fulfill human desires for immortality, he is not seen as a respected individual but merely a product of human greed.
From the moment of his birth, Park Bo-gum’s portrayal of the superhuman has been trapped in a laboratory. His existence is only for research and exploitation by humans, enduring cold and heartless experiments every day.
He cannot escape the confines of this cold laboratory, feeling like a prisoner, isolated, helpless, as if his life is just a data code for experiments, without ever having a genuine life of his own. His tragedy is not due to his lack of ability but because he has never been granted the rights of a human being.
However, when he finally has the chance to be transported to the outside world, fate seems to give him a glimmer of hope. This brief escape becomes his only ‘human experience,’ fleeing with Gong Yoo’s character as his brother, experiencing the hustle and bustle of the night market streets, witnessing his only ‘human world scenery’ in this lifetime. Everything appears ordinary yet lively, with street vendors and hurried passersby, all seeming so vivid and real. For him, everything is so strange yet full of novelty—he has never experienced real life until this moment, feeling the human touch and understanding what ‘life’ truly means.
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