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Someone care to explain the ending? *SPOILERS*


THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!


So, Hyunki somehow poisoned the rapists, and made them hallucinate so that they killed themselves or die from fear. That much was clear. The emails were triggers for this. Or at least that´s what I thought until the last few minutes of the film...

The guy getting the email at the end of the movie was obviously the guy with the scar the heroine was looking for, who had raped her. Why is he getting the email, and who sent it? Since he didn´t, as far as I could tell, have any connection to the Salt House rape and murders, it wouldn´t work as a trigger, if we suppose that the heroine imitate the MO of Hyunki to get back at him, so what gives?

Or does this mean that the ghosts *were* real, and exacting vengeance on rapists in general....?

Second: at the end, when the heroine starts on her novel, the chief calls her up, and asks her if she has seen a painting from the memorial website of the murdered girl. What painting was this exactly, and what is it´s significance? The only painting mentioned in the film, was the one of the silhouette on the stairs, from the salthouse....which all 3 of them saw, so what are they talking about!?

Lastly: the heroine figuring that the dead dog had something important to do with the case, and even concluded that it had something important in it´s innards, seemed like an extremely ridiculous stretch....Did I miss something, or was something lost in translation/or is there a cultural gap like explanation for this?

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"Why is he getting the email, and who sent it?"
Minjung's spirit, obviously? Since So-yeong helped find the real culprits behind her death, Minjung must probably be doing a favor. Or something. But it's definitely Minjung and no delusion of anyone.


"Or does this mean that the ghosts *were* real, and exacting vengeance on rapists in general....?"
Yes, Minjung's ghost was real. She was just 'helping' Hyunki avenge her death. Don't you see how, even if they're delusions, the ghosts look like Minjung? That's what I think atleast...


"Second: at the end, when the heroine starts on her novel, the chief calls her up, and asks her if she has seen a painting from the memorial website of the murdered girl. What painting was this exactly, and what is it´s significance?"
There must be another painting that we do not know about. That's the only logical reason I can come up with. @_@


"Lastly: the heroine figuring that the dead dog had something important to do with the case, and even concluded that it had something important in it´s innards, seemed like an extremely ridiculous stretch"
Lol, it was. Put it this way: it was just a detective's instinct that she figured that the dead dog had anything to do with the case.

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the painting was the one of the girl sitting on the darkened stair case that we see at the end the ghost walking down.

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And although the title of the painting was "Mother & Daughter" as we hear when they are all looking at the website in the police station, there is only one person's silhoutte through the window frame. All of the pictures on the website were posted on Hyun-ki's wall when they went to his apartment, making him the one who created the website, but he couldn't have done the painting because he didn't know Min-jeong had been pregnant until the police chief tells him at gun point. That's why it remains missing after they went through all the evidence collected at Hyun-ki's apartment. To exact revenge for So-young's rapist. I wonder if So-young will never know that her rapist was murdered, or somehow in that salt mine when she is bonding with Min-jeong's spirit, it was a "given" what she would do for her.

Min-jeong had to have been part of all the murders because not all the victims do we see smoke, nor all drink something carbonated to trigger the acid effect in the stomach that kills. Min-jeong would torment/scare the victims & her "ghost daughter" would strangle them because of the umbilical cord strangling her corpse. You would think they both would've taken revenge out on her town's police chief. He not only was paid off from keeping it a secret & spreading a false story around town, but he caused her death! He got off way too easy with a shot in the leg. He would've been the first on my list.

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<b>Minjung's spirit, obviously? Since So-yeong helped find the real culprits behind her death, Minjung must probably be doing a favor. Or something. But it's definitely Minjung and no delusion of anyone.
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i don't think min jung was doing a favor. wasn't it cleared up for us that it was the photographer (lee) that was doing all the killing?

minjung's role was just to appear to people and scare the hell out of them.

the way i look at this is that the stupid director of the movie created a twist without trying to connect the dots. you know what freestyle rap is? i guess this is what i would call FREESTYLE HORROR DIRECTING/WRITING. koreans love to do this and it's annoying.

you don't have to try to make the movie clear with answers because the director threw in random **** just to scare us. i'm in it for the scares but since they're gonna make complex plots, don't freakin ruin it with dumb plot holes.

I eat pieces of *beep* like you for breakfast.

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Stop freaking watching asian horror if you're init for the scares- theres something better then a few cheap thrills in these movies that you seem to not have the mental capacity to get. Get back to your crappy over the top gore and jump scenes in american horror that even 12 year olds can do and put on youtube.

Also I have no idea why people don't care for KHorror....they've got great plots and twists as well as morals/ messages in them. I guess people dislike it when you start a film as horrorand end as something else...doesn't bother me cause I watch movies for plot,not to get scared or jump. I saw Cello the other week and it blew me away like no Jhorror movie has come close to. The fact that it's not as popular makes me love it even more!

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Watching the deleted scenes on the DVD helped me understand. As for the dog, the deleted scenes show discussions about the dog's teeth being knocked out for some reason. I guess so the teeth wouldn't mess up the tape. But why the tape is in the dog's gut I'll never understand.

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The deleted scenes do help a lot with this.
The scene before they cut the dog open -


So-young: Why did Song Jeong-ho pull out this dog's teeth?

Hyun-gi: Probably because it kept on biting?

So-young: Let's think about it the other way around. If he did that to prevent it from biting something - (goes to cut up dog)


My thoughts on it were that the dog got a hold of the tape and the guy pulled out it's teeth in an attempt to get the tape before it was swallowed. That failed, so he killed the dog. So-Young made the connection of the dog getting into something it wasn't supposed to, and that's why she cut the dog open.

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