A query - Seuseung-ui eunhye (2006) Discussion

[–] Pyobeon 17 years ago

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I was wondering pretty much the same thing.

It seems to be a big plot hole. All the early emphasis, with the clear intention of making you believe he is the villain, and then not only is there no actual role for this deformed son, but it is left as a very loose end.

Unless... but of course almost all of the movie is an invention of the actual killer, so maybe he too is an invention. But even then it's still a loose end that should have been tied up.

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[–] kitanablade3 17 years ago

Hi there,

SPOILER WARNING...

There was no actual son, the "son's" name was Jung-won. Which in the end we find out the girl named Mi-Ja never existed in the class, SHE was Jung-Won. The teacher outcasting her made her feel like a deformed and stared at human. It was all symbolism. She made up the deformed son as a symbol of herself, just as she gave each "classmate" the personalities she was feeling when she was in school. If you get a chance to see it again, I'm sure it will make sense.

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[–] WritersBlock187 17 years ago

by - kitanablade3 on Mon Mar 19 2007 17:22:13 Hi there,

SPOILER WARNING...

There was no actual son, the "son's" name was Jung-won. Which in the end we find out the girl named Mi-Ja never existed in the class, SHE was Jung-Won. The teacher outcasting her made her feel like a deformed and stared at human. It was all symbolism. She made up the deformed son as a symbol of herself, just as she gave each "classmate" the personalities she was feeling when she was in school. If you get a chance to see it again, I'm sure it will make sense.

nice post--I caught this at the end of the movie and...u posted this first haha-good movie btw: not as gory or horrifying as other films, but some heart in it, especially at the end when she confesses everything to the teacher--that was pretty gripping

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[–] bn_23_jordan 17 years ago

what were the reasons for the killings from the shy boy ???

because he was mistreated by the rest of the group????

nice movie..nice gore..good twisting plot...

cute Mi Ja....

8 out of 10

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[–] djdanx 17 years ago

SPOILER!!!!

This movie was using a similar plot twist from The Ususal Suspects.

The shy boy did not exist. He, along with most of the story, was made up by girl who was "taking care" of the teacher. She told the cop a load of lies to explain why everyone else was dead. However, she killed them all with poison.

NOTE that the shy boy was the only character who was not real. The other students were real, but they were actually successful. I am not sure about the deformed son. He may have been real, or a symbolic version of the girl.

All the experiences that occurred in the movie to the other classmates actually happened to her. She just made up a story using her experiences and made it sound like all the students hated the teacher.

The other students she killed were all successful, and she was the only one who suffered abuse from the teacher. It shows all this at the end of the movie, when she is on the pier with the teacher.

Hope that helps.

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[–] EvilSimen 17 years ago

Thank you for your post Djdanx. This stuff was completely obvious and it drives me nuts that the people watching the film seemed to ignore it and not see it and thus choose to give the movie a low ranked. Sad. One of the best slasher movies ever made.

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[–] jona_omar 17 years ago

Actually there was a son, thats why his husband killed himself, and yes she used to lock him up in the basement, is you see the girl was the one who gave back the rabbit mask, i believed he died, since she wanted to ask for forgivness to him, when she woke up, what i didnt get was when the killer is explaining why she did it is after or before the hospital, since the policeman was about to get her, and there was no way for her to get her out of the hospital.

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[–] aja152-1 16 years ago

the son's name was apparently "yong min" to my understanding.
theres no right answer, but i also believe there was no son. it was symbolising "jung won" in away.
at the start of the film, the reason they shot scenes of the "history" of the deformed son was to create/build more tension at the end when they reveal the twist... they firstly made it seen like the deformed son was the killer, then the "shy guy" etc.. anyways,, as i mentioned before, the son's existence is arguable.

The things "jungwon" was describing about the other classmates was actually her own....but how about the "guy in the red shirt (dunnoe name)?? i mean the guy that was apparently molested by the teacher.. why did they leave him out?

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[–] robert4770 14 years ago

I came on here confused after watching the film, now I need to watch it again.

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[–] tensaip 14 years ago

In the end when the real Jung-Won is having the "real" expository flashbacks, she is shown being shooed away from the deformed Park Yong-Min by Mrs. Park just as the fictional Jung-Won had been in the false flashback.

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[–] iomya 16 years ago

kitanablade3 said:

There was no actual son, the "son's" name was Jung-won. Which in the end we find out the girl named Mi-Ja never existed in the class, SHE was Jung-Won. The teacher outcasting her made her feel like a deformed and stared at human. It was all symbolism. She made up the deformed son as a symbol of herself, just as she gave each "classmate" the personalities she was feeling when she was in school. If you get a chance to see it again, I'm sure it will make sense.

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Then how do you explain the brief scene at the end with Jung-won and the teacher? During one of the flash back scenes, it shows younger Jung-won kneeling by the deformed sons window, then the teacher scolds her for it.

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[–] fahqsociety 16 years ago

she wass all of the kids everything the teacher did was to her

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[–] lavashop 16 years ago

So are you saying Mrs Park sexually abused the killer, Jung-Won?

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[–] chilone 9 years ago

she wass all of the kids everything the teacher did was to her

I often wonder, when people write stuff like this do they read it afterward and does it even make sense to them?

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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[–] SeisCinemaSeis 15 years ago

If you ask me the deformed kid didn't exist, except in the mind of Jun-wong/Mi-ja. "He" was the alter ego of Jun-wong who clearly was a schizophrenic character.

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[–] daloxrr303 13 years ago

If you watch the film again pay attention to who the characters are and their names. Mrs. Parks son's name is Park Yong-Min (the deformed child), Jung-won and Nam Mi-Ja was the same person, Mrs. Park's sexy care taker, the kid who gets picked on in the flashbacks, the women who poisons everyone at the reunion, etc. Back to the OP I can't figure it out either, but i'm positive the husband and son were real. In the beginning the detective is talking to the doctor at the hospital about the survivors (Mrs. Park and Jung-won) and the doctor starts to mention Mrs. Park's husband who was addicted or used dioxin to kill himself (not 100% sure, but the dioxin was used to poison the students later in the film) and the beginning also mentioned that Mrs. Park raised a deformed child (pretty sure that was before Jung-won's fictional story). Intentionally or unintentionally, not telling us what happened to Park Yong-Min is irritating, and its especially annoying having this unsettling thought of a deformed kid with a rabbit mask still running around.

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