OVERLAY REPORT

The darkest moment for the lead character, Ko Sun-young (a popular late-night radio DJ), in the film *Midnight FM* (2010) is the devastating escalation of her ordeal when the antagonist, Han Dong-soo, **murders her sister, Ah-young,** and then pushes her to the absolute ethical and psychological limit by forcing her into a final, horrific choice. ### Darkest Moment (Specific Detail) The climax of Sun-young's despair arrives in two main parts: 1. **The Murder of Her Sister:** While Ko Sun-young is live on air, desperately trying to comply with the serial killer Dong-soo's demands to protect her family, her well-meaning but unaware boss intervenes and discards the killer's pre-determined playlist. Because Sun-young fails to follow the instructions precisely, Dong-soo retaliates by murdering her sister, Ah-young, who was looking after Sun-young's daughter, Eun-soo, at the apartment. This act signifies the complete failure of her attempt to manage the crisis from the studio. 2. **The Final Demand to Kill:** Following the confrontation, Dong-soo forces Sun-young to a location where he has kidnapped another man, whom he claims is a human trafficker. The killer gives Sun-young a gun and issues his final demand: **she must shoot and kill the man** to prove her loyalty to his warped vision, with her ill daughter's life still hanging in the balance. This moment is Sun-young's darkest and most desperate, as she is forced to choose between committing murder or risking the life of her daughter. ### How She Overcomes It (Specific Detail) Ko Sun-young overcomes this moment by making a decisive, moral choice to **refuse the killer's demand and take lethal action against him** instead of complying. 1. **Refusal and Moral Stand:** She refuses to shoot the bound and pleading innocent man, declaring that he deserves a trial and not execution. This is her ultimate act of defiance, rejecting the killer's control and his vigilante philosophy that had been inspired by her own commentary on the film *Taxi Driver*. 2. **Lethal Confrontation:** Instead of killing the hostage, Sun-young immediately turns the gun on the killer, **shooting Han Dong-soo dead**. This action brings the harrowing night to an end, as she rescues her daughter, Eun-soo, and niece, moments before the police arrive. Her overcoming the darkest moment is not through passive survival but by actively embracing a heroic role she was forced into, using direct, violent force to protect the innocent and end the threat.