I'm a little bit fuzzy about things. Did Yun Ji-seong put the glass shards in Kim So-heui's slippers on purpose?
Why didn't Kim So-heui fall down when the blood first started flowing?
How come she wasn't limping on the stairs before she fell to the floor?
Was she in the hospital because of her cut feet or because of the results of her fall on the stairs?
Some parts of this movie made just as little sense to me as they did to you.
shareAnyone familiar with ballet knows that bloody toe shoes and pain are just part it. Yes the glass was put there to sabotage her audition but it didn't work out - she was so talented that she danced through the pain. It wasn't the glass in her shoe that sent her to the hospital it was the fall down the stairs. The glass in the shoe 'rumor' only confirmed for the other girls that the fall down the stairs was no accident - and they were right in a way.
She never mentioned the glass in the shoe because she 'liked' her so much
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My friend actually came up with a very good explanation for the glass and whatnot. We were a bit confused by So-huie (apologies if this is spelled incorrectly) dying, when she'd been perfectly fine in the hopsital earlier while arguing with her mother and talking to Ji-seoung (again, sorry about spelling). But then when the part with the glass came along, my friend suddenly exclaimed "So she did kill her!" And when I asked what she meant, she replied that some of the glass would have gotten into So-huie's foot, and glass in your blood stream poisons you. It's quite possible that it didn't kick in for awhile and she died somewhat quickly once it did. I don't think Ji-seoung meant to kill her, and meant only to sabotage her audition, but it killed her anyway.
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I just watched this DVD today, including the "making of" featurette. In it, the director explicitly says that Soh Hwe killed herself out of anger that the wish that she had made at the start of the film, to be together with Jing Sun forever, hadn't come true.
The director went on to say later that the wishing stairs does grant Soh Hwe her wish at the end. I guess the stairs decided Soh Hwe had been punished enough for making her wish?
explicitly says that Soh Hwe killed herself
yea, i figured she killed herself since she was lying on the ground outside her hospital room window...dead. i figured she jumped out of despair. i never thought her friend intentionally/physically killed her.
"Now I know I'm always right; that's a thought that never even crossed my mind..."
ok. that made sense hahaha.
i had the exact same thought too. i thought so-hee was fine in the hospital and i was kind of confused how she was on the ground from the room.
Yeah, So-Hee indeed did kill herself. Glass shards/poison in your bloodstream makes you die where you are, not push you out of the window and onto the cement floor.
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whatever. The film sucks.
shareI'm still confused. Okay so she didn't say anythnig to Jin-Sung about the glass before she was pushed down the stairs. But they switched shoes (as a girl in the shower asks), so why did they do that? Did So-Hee know there was glass in her shoes before she put them on?
shareWasn't the shoe switching wayyy before the glass shard scene? I'm not sure.
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Okay. Here's what I gathered.
Early in the movie Jin-Sung can't find her ballet shoes and has to borrow someone else's. After So-Hee's dance in the pink leotard she hands the pair of shoes she had been wearing to Jin-Sung and tells her that they are worn out and she needs a new pair. She had taken Jin-Sung's shoes.
Later that day So-Hee invites Jin-Sung to go ballet shoe shopping and even offers to treat her to dinner as an apology. Jin-Sung refuses.
It is that night that Jin-Sung makes her wish.
The next day, however, Jin-Sung finds a pair of brand new shoes in her locker with a note (presumably) from So-Hee. Still consumed by anger and jealosy, she breaks a glass and we see a classmate witness her breakdown before leaving quietly and telling someone we can't see to remain quiet as well. Later, in the flashback scene, we see why Jin-Sung broke the glass. She took shards of the broken glass and imbedded them into the new shoes. The flashback also shows us who the classmate told after witnessing Jin-Sung's breakdown. It was So-Hee.
At the next class Jin-Sung aproached So-Hee and gave her back the shoes to insult her by refusing to accept her gift. We later learn that when So-Hee put the shoes on to audition she already knew that there was glass inside them. This was both her way of proving her love to Jin-Sung and making her feel guilty for her betrayal.
90% of the movie I felt sorry for Jin-Sung because it seemed that she never intended to hurt So-Hee, she was only jealous that So-Hee was dispassionate about ballet and yet naturally talented. It was the flashback that made me lose my sympathy for Jin-Sung. The murder of the sculptress and all that followed was disturbing, but to put glass shards in someone's shoes in pretty psychotic all by itself. I think that although So-Hee's actions after the accident (and her death) made her seem crazy, it was Jin-Sung who started the vicious cycle of revenge with her deranged jealosy.
You misunderstood the first shoe trading. So-Hee was unable to find her shoes because the rust colored hair girl had taken them to keep as a souvenir. That was when So-Hee first asked Jin-Sung for her shoes, and it led to the former telling the latter they should go shoe shopping.
shareyes, she did know it was in her shoe. She took the shoes anyhow which just shows how much she cared about her friend.
I suggest you go back and watch it. The first time I watched it I felt lost, but than I went back and it all made perfect sense. I couldn't figure out why I was confused in the first place.
I'm sorry, at what point does it show that So-he knew that there was glass in her shoes? this is the one about this movie that's been bugging me
shareAnother girl saw that the glass shards were put into the shoe, and told So-hee. It is all shown in the flashback sequence.
"We all live with our disappointments, Peg. Of course, I have to sleep with mine."
So-Hee is too good of a friend to that evil jealous vindictive witch. If i knew one of my friends purposely did something like putting glass into my ballet shoes to ruin me, both physically and professionally, I would totally rat her out to the school teacher and stop being her friend. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
I sympathized with So-Hee all throughout the movie. Even when she came back evil i justified it as her coming back "wrong". She would never do any of the evil deeds that she did in real life nor would she ever do anything to hurt Ji Sung. I believe she's one of those people who would rather suffer than watch the person she cares about suffer, which is evident when she took back the shoes from Ji Sung, even knowing that it had glass in it. She's pretty crazy in that regard though.
I was all the way behind So-Hee too, although there is one thing that I wondered. Between Ji-seong and ballet, which one would she have picked: I think she killed herself for the betrayal and the fact that her dream as a ballerina was shattered. Yet by winning the contest, she would've had to move to Russia, effectively separating her from Ji-seong at least for an undetermined duration of time. Of course, had she not won, Ji-seong seems to be the next in line, so in that sense it might've well been a no-win situation.
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