Old topic, but I'll give it a shot. After, I will say what I was thinking throughout the movie.
It is mainly like the group dynamics shown in the movie. The girl started out as a back up dancer and eventually made her own song. This made all the rest of the girl's jealous ("I told you not to stand out") and they killed her for it. The girl who then became the main (the one in the music video) became haunted by her and was:
A) Writing and burning a letter to free her conscience, or
B) Going to commit suicide by using her suicide note to start the fire
(I don't know about asian customs, but I lean toward A because when she saw the ghost of the song's creator she screamed) The ghost she saw was the same one who was killing the new girls throughout the movie (If I can't have it, nobody can).
THAT WRAPS UP THE MOVIE IN A NUTSHELL. Now, what I wanted (thought was going) to happen.
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The movie really didn't need a supernatural element at all (maybe this is really scary for Asians? I see it in almost all asian horror...). The New girl who eventually became the main could have been a backup dancer on the original music video and killed the old main to try to steal her part.
She eventually gets picked up by another group and (surprise!) the sponsor finds the old, burnt out studio she used to rehearse in (explaining why she found the tape). The studio representative finds her watching the tape and likes the song, only the old backup dancer (the new main) has already killed to be the lead on that song and will do it again. She kills/injures all of the other girls and goes on to have a decent solo career.
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IMO that is what the movie was leading towards, and would have been better for it (What is with Asian horror and ghosts?). But we all think our endings would have been better, don't we?
Was the new main (white?) involved in the old group? I was paying attention to the movie (and this is verrry racist (sorry!)), but most of the girls looked alike to me.
TLDR: you're a douche and don't deserve to know what was said!
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Xuande
12 years ago
The main reason she couldn't possibly have been in the old group is because that supposedly happened 15 years ago, making her just a baby or perhaps not born yet, depending on how old she was supposed to be.
I think you're looking for a more complex answer that simply isn't there. It's just supposed to be a ghost story.
Now that I think about it though, even setting it 15 years ago was probably a mistake on part of the writers. The dancing/music style would have changed drastically for any hit to still take off 15 years later. It would have been more realistic to make the events of the older group just a couple years ago, and then they could have tied the plot more into reality with the whole "ghost" thing being simple misdirection.
Well, whatever. Still entertaining.
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davidjp-2
11 years ago
Hollywood horror movies are usually horror all the way, I guess that's what American want. Ghost plot is often a side story for Asian horror, audience want to laugh, cry with characters before characters were killed. Each to its own.
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