It is completely different from the madness for love in Korean dramas. There are hospitals and doctors to see a doctor, and nursing at home. The husband portrayed in the film is almost absent from the substantial care for Alice. From the anxiety of learning about the illness, to the speechlessness watching Alice looking for her phone in the middle of the night, to the final departure, he was honest and had a hard time accepting all of this. The husband's presupposition to grow old is to hold the hand of his son and grow old together with his son, rather than a most familiar stranger. This is completely different from the setting of infatuated men in Korean dramas. Alice once went to the nursing home herself, but in the end she had lost the ability to dominate herself
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