Absolute Zero Episode 3

Acting shines through

I don't know whether the acting has gotten even better with this episode or if I'm just noticing it more now that the plot is more established. The acting by all the principles in this episode is flim quality. The characters, especially Ongsa, are so three-dimensional, without actors mannerisms or dead lines to spoil the illusion. We get one of New's patented jump-cries in this episode when we cut from a scene of Ongsa-then and his parents laughing together to Ongsa-now in the hospital bed attended by his parents. It reminds me of the numerous jump-cries in Dae Deng.It took me a bit of time to come to terms with the causal loop in phi Sunsoon moving from the coffee shop to the apartment next to nong Sunsoon because he remembers tha man next door from his days as nong Sunsoon. I think the whole loop is supposed to exists as some sort of destiny with fate or karma or something like that as an external cause of the loop.

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