Can someone explain the plot/story?

It was a pretty confusing movie, just watched it thanks to Netflix supplying the fix for my weird movie fetish.

The basis for the movie revolves around this cursed pair of (pink) red shoes. The color of the shoes, in and of itself, is a bit of a controversy as literally they aren't red; rather, they're referred to as red because of the blood spilled to obtain them.

These shoes were cursed after a pair of dancers, Oki and Keiko, had a bit of a meltdown with each other. Oki was jealous of Keiko (the original owner of the shoes) as she had the talent to dance and the attention of a MP officer. Oki associated Keiko's success to these shoes, and murdered Keiko for them.

The shoes therefore became cursed by a grudge, which in turn killed Oki.

Through some means, these shoes apparently place themselves in odd places where they can be picked up. We're shown that Sun-Jae originally encounters these red shoes on a train, and then we see the events in the movie take place (this person steals 'em, they die, end up back with Sun-Jae and her weird kid, etc).

Where it gets confusing is towards the end. Sun-Jae's daughter appears to become a victim though she isn't killed. We start hearing a theory about Sun-Jae's husband. We see the shoes reappear after they were "given back" to "Her" (Keiko's corpse). All of these things start to add up through flashbacks and the encounter Kim Sung-Su (Sun-Jae's lover) where he tells her to confess what she's done.

My final opinion on deciphering those events is this:
Remember when Sun-Jaw and Kim Sung-Su were trying to track down the girl from the picture, and they were in the car? He starts talking about feelings and how they can be dangerous. Specifically, he's referring to jealousy and how she felt when she discovered her husband was having an affair. He asks, "you wanted to kill didn't you?" And she gets indignant.

I think the shoes were truly cursed, but rather than actually killing people they drove the wearers to kill them. After Sun-Jae was exposed to jealousy and hatred after discovering her husband with someone else, she snapped and ended up finding the shoes. Multiple people try to take the shoes away from her, and magically they all start dropping like flies.

However, she's not aware that she has this malicious side in her, and we see that when she starts frantically trying to dispose of the shoes. It's not until the end when she's in the subway station does she realize that everyone she knew who took the shoes was murdered by her hand. This would also explain why her daughter, who wore the shoes and took them often, wasn't killed (because she was Sun-Jae's daughter). We also see a black pair of shoes involved in the murder of Sun-Jae's husband, which further supports the idea that the jealousy drove her to the brink, of which the red shoes helped her completely swan dive off of.


That's my opinion anyway. Great movie.

"Give me 'Cat Party' or it'll be 'Talon Party' at your face's house!" - Killface

I could try and give it a go, but I'm getting dizzy spells reliving the plot.

I think the vice-admiral above got t pretty right, but can't agree with his conclusion that it was a "great" film.

Just the opposite I would have thought. It went way over the top.