Can someone explain...
Ummm well, don't take me wrong... but I didn't understand the movie. Can someone explain it to me?
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Sun Young, the girl helping the main character put the skulls together is actually dead. She is the last skull that he puts together. That's about it.
shareKeep in mind that I have only seen it once and need to see it a couple more times to really get it down.
The forensic facial reconstructionist is haunted by the spectre of a young woman who has been murdered. The first skull he receives is delivered by said young woman, who happens to be the fifth murder victim (she brings him the fourth victim's skull, knowing that with her involvement, he will find her own skull).
The first ghost (the one who reminds us of the ghosts in Ju-On and The Grudge) is a red herring. She may be the "enraged" portion of the victim's pysche. It only scares him. Perhaps this is why she comes to him in a more "human" form later, though the first ghost does scare him enough to start working on the skull. It could also be that this first ghost is actually that of the fourth victim, while the fifth comes to him in this form.
Via some sort of psychic connection, he's able to find her skull in the sand. While he's reconstructing it, she actually corrects him in his facial tissue construction, saying, "this one has been in the sand a while. You have to get this one, for your daughter." So...she knows a lot about this one. She should - it's her!
It turns out that his daughter had previously received this victim's heart via transplant.
The female "assistant" was a ghost, the whole time. She was murdered by the same man who killed the previous four women. She helped him with the fourth case, so he could find her own body. When he finishes the fifth skull (hers), he realizes that the woman who has been helping him all this time was the fifth victim, and is dead.
As he talks to the police, he realizes that the murderer is in cahoots with the heart transplant doctor, delivering him fresh hearts of people he has killed. He (the killer) did this because his own son died after a heart transplant surgery. The acid used in each case was utilized to disguise the fact that the hearts had been removed from each victim.
The murderer had been finding victims from leisure groups and killing them. In this case, it was the girl (the assistant) from a scuba club.
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and when they taLk on the beach she says something Like "it is coLd under the sand" that sentence made me reaLize she is dead :)
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Hmmm. So when she's having drinks with the killer, that is in the past? That doesn't make sense really to me. The explanation of her being dead does, but not that bit. It seemed to me that it was happening realtime, esp. when the killer says "busy with work lately?". I took it as she's been working with Hyun-min so much that she didn't have time. The bit when he goes to the flower shop, sees the keychain, etc. fits nicely, though I thought he was going to rescue her? I actually had wondered as well whether his wife had died like that as well, which may be one of the reasons he wanted to quit? Plus, his daughter saw the typical creepy woman with long black hair whilst driving to grandma's house....
I liked this film, but it did leave me much the same way One Missed Call 2 did---with loads of unanswered questions and things that didn't make sense. I still liked them both though!
Hmmm. So when she's having drinks with the killer, that is in the past? That doesn't make sense really to me. The explanation of her being dead does, but not that bit. It seemed to me that it was happening realtime, esp. when the killer says "busy with work lately?". I took it as she's been working with Hyun-min so much that she didn't have time.
I guess I'm confused about this, too, since reading the posts here. I obviously need to watch it again. I didn't get that she was dead---that went right by me.
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I figured out the assistant was a dead girl half way into the film. It kind of reminded me of The Sixth Sense.
There were clues all along, such as when she was dropped off by him and walked into the flower shop to see her mom, she looked really sad. Then the scene is shown again a little later, where the mom is shown to look up, but only sees the door swinging close with no one there.
Another clue was when she takes him to the beach, tells him that she used to love playing with sand, because it's really warm on the surface, then she found out underneath the sand is really cold (that's where he found her skull). There was also an early clue when he goes to use the sink in the bathroom, there was sand in the bowl.
Finally, the scene where she visits the restaurant is a flash back to show how she was killed.
All in all, it was a pretty touching ghost story.
I too figured she was a ghost after that scene where she was dropped off at the flower shop. Not only because she looked upset but because the scene cut so abruptly. Obviously there was to be no interaction between her (the ghost) and her mother because... she's dead.
shareIs the girl murder scene really a flashback? (There are no clues about it!) So the first in the club when the killer shots the polaroid? (I mean, the girl in that scene is ALIVE, she's not a ghost, she is going to be killed soon?)
Can the ghost be always hers?
I think is important to understan what's written in the post-it message. Someone can help?
There is also sand on the carpet of the daughter's room when he first returns to the house after leaving her with her grandmother at the beginning of the movie. This sinks and gets wet and precedes him finding the sand in the sink.
shareAnother "clue" perhaps...: She's with his daughter in the hospital. He's about to ask how she got in there, but she quiets him as to suggest he'd wake up his daughter.
It's funny I noticed it immediately, and dismissed it just the same, thinking "Korean hospitals must have really different visitations rights"... once it was clear she was a ghost, I just had a sort of "oh come on" moment. I can't count how many times I've dismissed what turn out to be crucial plot points as "script error" or "cultural difference". It's almost not fair.