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In ``Parallel Life,'' actor Ji Jin-hee plays the role of a young judge faced with the possibility of history repeating itself toward a bloody finale. /Courtesy of CJ Entertainment

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

It somehow feels like doing math homework using a history book, with rock music blasting in the background. The seed idea of ``Parallel Life'' was catchy but the tree that grew from it ended up being a tangled mess.

First-time director Kwon Ho-young draws on the idea that history repeats itself. Case in point: former U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were elected to the senate in and , respectively, and then the presidency in and Their assassinations both took place on a Friday, in a Ford Theater and a century later in a Ford car. Their assassins were born a century apart, in and

The film is set in modern-day Korea, and opens with a cancer-stricken academic (Oh Hyun-kyung) vehemently arguing in favor of the parallel lives theory. This initially se

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