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Park Shin-yang,
Park Shin-yang,
Jeon Ji-hyeon,
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Lee Soo-youn,
Lee Soo-youn
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: Not Rated
: Panik House Ent.
: Foreign, Horror, Korea, Asian Horror
: 96 min.
: Korean
: English, Spanish
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Jung-won (Park Shin-yang) falls asleep on the subway one evening. He wakes up to find the train at the end of the line. He bolts off before the doors close, then turns back and sees two little girls still on the train as it pulls off to the railway yard. We learn that Jung-won is an interior designer. His rather controlling fiancée, Hee-eun (Yu Seon), gets a very modern table for his apartment with spotlights over each of the four chairs. The next day, Jung-won learns that the two little girls he spotted were later found dead on the train, apparently poisoned by their mother. Jung-won's dismay only increases when he sees the two girls again, this time slumped over his new kitchen table. Terrified, he begins spending his nights at the home of his father, a pastor at a church. Jung-won goes to see a psychiatrist about renovating his office and runs into one of his patients, Yon (Jeon Ji-hyeon of My Sassy Girl). He feels strangely drawn to the withdrawn young woman. He soon learns that she suffers from narcolepsy, and when she faints in his presence, he takes her to his apartment, where he's shocked to find that Yon can also see the ghosts of the two girls. Yon separated from her husband after the death of their young child, and she is testifying in the trial of the woman responsible for that gruesome death. Jung-won finds himself getting more and more obsessed with Yon, and learns that she has a strange and dangerous power. The Uninvited was the feature debut of writer/director Lee Soo-youn. The film was shown at the 2004 New York Korean Film Festival. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
June 9, 2006 - 3:48 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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Architecture, space, loneliness and coming to terms with the past vie for your attention in THE UNINVITED, a supremely quiet, nearly single-toned, quasi-ghost story that goes against the usual quick mood changes (if not the enormous length) of most modern Korean films. This movie is depressing in a number of ways, which does not necessarily mean it's not good. But it will be a matter of taste whether you feel like sticking with its obsessions, right through to the unsurprising, sad end.
My knowledge of Korean history is vague, and though the movie does not go into history in any overt manner, it seemed to me that--symbolically or metaphorically--the themes it deals with fit interestingly into what that country has gone through over the past 50-odd years since its division. Worth a look, and maybe more than that--if it hooks you. |
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