Nam Gi-ae), and their two young daughters. Following the revelation of a medical emergency, what follows is a fairly standard religious allegory. Tae-wook, the literal praying man of the movie s Korean title, must struggle with fidelity to his faith in the face of a tangible crisis which may be solvable through illicitly earned cash.
What grounds Pray morally is that the movie is not particularly heavy-handed with its Christian metaphors. Indeed, writer/director
Kang Dong-hun manages a nearly agnostic depiction of faith in crisis by making its characters rationalize their questionable decisions while still feeling repulsed by their own actions. For much of the movie, Tae-wook and Jeong-in don t even communicate with each other.