Is This Just Real Life...?

Before watching Jeon Woochi, I assumed that this movie was targeted towards children. After watching it, and reading Kim’s article, I realize that there is much more to the film. Kim introduces this idea of “creative evolution”, which, from my understanding, is the inability to distinguish between what is false and what is true. In the case of Jeon Woochi, it is the inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. What aspects of this film is fantasy? The most obvious would be the ability to cast spells and be a wizard by extension, the goblins, and the ability to travel quickly through time. If this is fantasy then what is reality? I would say that the time periods in which Jeon is alive would be closest to reality, therefore the Chosun period and present day, or the year 2009. Therefore it is within reality that fantasy exists. But, as seen in the movie, the ‘reality’ or the time periods are also intertwined; while fighting Hwadam, the two fall into a window and the scene fades to white. Immediately afterwards Woochi opens his eyes to find himself back in the Chosun dynasty. Woochi notices that something is not ‘right’ about this place, shoots an arrow into the chest that the flute had been in and Hwadam, wearing a modern suit comes out. Creative evolution allows for the plots to bleed into each other. Another way in which reality bleeds is how the widow looks exactly like Inkyung. She is a mortal character (unlike Woochi, Hwadam and the wizards) yet she is the same physical person. This begs the question... What is real life, and what is fantasy?