![]() Move to Heaven season 1, episode 5 is a tragic story of forbidden love and will pull at the audience’s heartstrings. He verifies if the doctor is dead and rings the hospital. Sang-gu and Na-mu drag Geu-ru away - Ian Park goes into his dressing room, and he’s in shock. Geu-ru tells Ian Park that the doctor passed away, and suddenly the musician has a confused and sad look on his face. Geu-ru approaches Ian Park and asks him if he knows the doctor, but he denies any knowledge - Geu-ru presses him about it, and Ian Park states he used to know him, but he’s a stranger to him now. ![]() In the bathroom, Geu-ru bumps into a male musician - he tells the others that Jung Soo-hyun was in love with Ian Park and points to the man on the poster. As Geu-ru goes to the bathroom, Sang-gu and Na-mu talk to random musicians and ask if they know the doctor. They head to the theatre and ask the organizers if they can talk to the musicians while they rehearse. Sang-gu then finds an endpin stopper - it’s what cello players use to keep their instruments in place he finds a concert ticket for classical music and believes the person the doctor loved will be there. Sang-gu believes the lover is a musician based on the flyers the doctor had in his house. It’s now a story about a doctor and his secret lover, and Geu-ru and the group want to figure out who it is. He takes home remnants of the burned letter. One of the family members throws it in the fire, and a panicked Geu-ru puts his hand in the fire and hurts himself. Geu-ru gives the family a letter he found and wondered if they know who it is from - he states the deceased left a letter for someone, and it must be delivered. It’s a very clean assignment as he didn’t die there - Ge-ru does his usual praying for the deceased –Jung Soo-hyun. Geu-ru and the group head to the doctor’s house. What a hectic way to start the chapter, but a new “Move to Heaven” case is in our laps! Trauma cleaning for the doctor The woman screams, which causes a commotion, and the doctor is stabbed in the neck by the man - there’s panic, but it’s too late - the doctor has bled out, and he dies. ![]() ![]() And finally, each room the company cleans may be seen as yet another box in and of itself-this place where we sleep, eat, and live out our days is just another confinement summarising our being, scaled up to four walls and a door.Īll in all, the show brings to the fore this truism: in death, we realise just how important it is to live.Episode 5 opens with a man putting a woman under hostage at the hospital, and he asks for morphine a doctor tries to give him advice on his wounds, but the man wants the drugs only. As Geu-ru and Sang-gu deliver leftover belongings, they become privy to the departed's struggles and how they've dealt with being boxed-in by life, so to speak asking viewers to rethink our perceptions of who we are versus who we ought to be. The yellow containers that sum up one's life is a poetic image of how fragile existence can be. The show also offers a layered problematisation of the idea of boxes. It explores, with incredible nuance, the concept of trauma-from the literal procedure of ‘trauma cleaning’, to each family’s ordeal as they go through the deceased's personal effects, to even Geu-ru and Sang-gu’s deep-seated pains from their childhoods or the constant push-and-pull between finding oneself in an otherwise unkind world. Move to Heaven offers an intricate balance between the agony of those who have moved on and those who have been left behind.
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