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Ending scene.. (Spoiler)


Just saw it and I thought it was fairly good.

However I didn't get the ending scene.
I think it might have been something in the translation missing.

We find out that he kidnapped his daughter and her real parents enter the hospital at the end.

Now, what did his wife's brother threaten him with? He said something like "you did a good job kidnapping, you can do it again, I'll help you"

Did he threaten to reveal the first kidnapping? And was money the only reason behind the second kidnapping?

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The wife's brother threatened Soon-man with evidence that would have revealed Da-eun's true identity. The evidence being the hospital ID wristband that was on the baby: Mi-sun (Da-eun as she is later known as).

There is a scene at the end where Soon-man snags the name tag off the baby and carelessly throws it onto the ground where Shim picks it up. Years later, Shim asks for $100,000 from Soon-man. From all this, it's safe to assume that money was the main reason behind the second kidnapping, well, money and Soon-man's desire to quash the truth.

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Ah, just as I thought. Thank you!

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I thought that it didn't make any sense that Soon-man could kidnap and get away, scot-free with Da-eun in the first place.

If a baby is kidnapped from a hospital wouldn't there have been a huge outcry and a massive investigation? The movie didn't refer to this original kidnapping whatsoever and I found that a little hard to believe. But, overall, it's still a powerful film.

Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't."

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Still a bit confused about the voice. The test showed it wasn't the father so it must have been the brother-in-law. So why didn't Da-Eun recognize it as his voice? She said something to her father about remembering his voice that day as if maybe he had disguised it, but it wasn't really clear.

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She and her friends (at the movie theater, in the beginning) all recognized the voice was her father’s. Her friends dismissed it as being his, because they couldn’t believe this really nice man would do something so horrible. Da-Eun had doubts, but she still didn’t want to believe it either at first. She probably wouldn’t have believe it was him if she hadn’t remembered writing the ransom note.

When they gave him the speech test I think he probably changed his speech pattern slightly and he most likely still had some drugs in his system (from the hospital). So the speech test would not be accurate.

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So, everything checks out with the addition of the scene after the first few credits except as previously pointed out, the original kidnapping. Who was the child he threw in the river in the bag?

That child was about 5 years old!

Crucial point there, BOY! Not a girl, like he kidnapped. The biological parents of his (kidnapped) daughter would have known the sex of the baby.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie but felt they didn't tie it all up very well.

I had partially figured it out fairly early on and remembered that his daughter asked him why he was wet when he came to pick her up from school. Ok, it was raining but as the writers put this line in, I presume he was wet from disposing of the child in the bag and into the river.

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He says he did it for her. He kidnapped the boy to pay off his brother-in-law, but it didn't work out (obviously) so he disposed of the boy. He was nuts.

The irony is that his brother in law was holding the original kidnapping over his head, never realizing he was guilty of this later crime.

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