Plot of the movie
Can someone explain me waht happened in this movie? What Yun revealed to Jung-won about his childhood? What Jung-won asked to his father if he is his true father?
shareThe movie centers around the deep, dark, evil demon, secrets that we keep buried within ourselves our whole lives. Something traumatic happens to us when we are a child, and we enter into a state of denial about it, so that when we are older we totally forget all about it, and are shielded from its devastating effects.
Well Yun is a woman with a special power. She can reach right back into the deepest recesses of the human mind, and make a person face their dark demons. Unfortunately for the characters in this movie, being in a state of denial is better than knowing the truth about the past.
When Yun shows Jun-*beep* what happened to her as a child (she had to cannibalize her deceased mother just to stay alive after her death), it drove her crazy. She couldn't accept it and couldn't live with herself, leading her to ultimately kill her child along with Yun's baby, and then herself.
This is why Yun is so tormented in the film. She feels that it is her fault her child is dead. That making Jun-*beep* face her inner demons, made her hate Yun, and kill her baby. If only she hadn't shown her than maybe...
Jung-Won is also in denial about something bad that happened to him when he was a child. And even though being in denial is sort of like a shield against the past, holes in the shield allow little bits of it to leak out and the slightest association can bring about terrible nightmares, which is what Jung-Won suffers from, especially after seeing the 2 dead little girls on the train.
Yun helps Jung-Won to try and understand why he has the nightmares, by showing him his past (He had a really abusive father and one day Jung-Won set the house on fire to try and kill his father; he tried to protect his little sister, but unfortunately she was caught in the flames and died as well). But he denies it, he confronts who he thought was his real father, but he just stammers away nervously and doesnt admit anything to Jung-Won. Jung-Won takes this as proof Yun is wrong, and refuses to ever see her again (because to see her is to remember the past), and he destroyes his kitchen table (where he kept seeing the vision of the 2 little dead girls, trying to remind him of the past).
And then through grief of losing her child, everyone hating her and denying her and not believing what she has to show people, Yun kills herself, unable to live with this strange gift God has given her.
Great movie! Just a little too long, and really slow.
I think that Yun kills her babay. In a scene in the trial her husband was thinking about the facts of the murder, images of his wife holding their baby in the balcony and not the acused in the trial comes to his mind(I think that he was remembering when he saw his wife killing their baby). That confused me. Why after she told to Jung-wong his true, she appears crying in front a mirror ad her friend appear too. What means that scene?
shareI totally agree with Rocco3000 on the plot of the movie. Also, Yun didn't kill her baby - see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358345/board/flat/14738047 for explanations about the trial scene, and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358345/board/flat/21998459 for the mirror scene.
shareAnd then through grief of losing her child, everyone hating her and denying her and not believing what she has to show people, Yun kills herself, unable to live with this strange gift God has given her.
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She also wanted to 'prove' Jung-Won she told the truth all along. When she phoned him, he went to the window expecting to see her the way she saw the day the cat woman fell (I'm trying to be vague as possible to avoid spoiling it that much).
Presumably because he stood at the window for a while, he didn't see what she wanted him to see. So, it's possible this convinced him to replace the shattered table and lights, and returned to his normal life.
But, of course, he found himself sitting at a table for four and realised she told him the truth. There is a strong implication that he'll have to live with the guilt in form of these 'guests' for the rest of his life. I think the little girls triggered a vague memory that he came to recall of a little boy from his childhood.
He doesn't do anything when he and his sister and an old lady witness what the truck driver does with the little boy. A memory of that triggers another memory and it keeps triggering from one small memory to another until the grand finale that causes a deep memory loss.
But I still don't understand why he was preoccupied with the woman's baby and the murder trial. Did he suspect the woman was mentally unstable because of that, therefore she couldn't possibly be telling the truth as an attempt to continue living in denial?
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"she had to cannibalize her deceased mother just to stay alive after her death" (by Rocco3000)
I wonder why the mother and the baby were down at the bottom of a dried-up well. (Pretty much reminded me of 'The Ring'.) Does anybody know?
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