Person in the present has to keep going for the future and not get stuck on the past. Past is the memory not the one you get to be held back. From the writing Mark's father went through exorcism with a help from Chanhee's mother to meet his brother who is now dead. His wife won't let him go through it because she didn't believe in it and thought these rituals bring bad luck. Even he knew that his lover hated it he was so desperate to meet his brother. Mark's father must have had hard time adapting to new environment, but the most hardship he had was living without his real family.
Through the reading he always was a happy man but there were some parts missing. He was a gentleman in front of his wife and was trying to be a good father. However, outside of his acting zone, he was lost and grieved. In the middle of dawn, he sat at the kitchen table drinking and trying to hear any sound from the silence as if he were trying to find an answer or a solution. So as the reading passage went to the end, I thought he could actually kill himself to meet his brother again. It turned out that he was respectful to the present. He was vulnerable and sad for sure but at the otherside he had his family to spend his life with.
At the very lost part of the story he could finally grab his son, Mark in his arm. I was touched.
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