The Eye (2002)

Great but not the Best... Get it anyways

Well Ill start by just saying the movie focused on once again what i love about asian thillers next to american is the story is very well done. Lots of jumpy parts and just a killer story line of which can only be found in asian folklore and untarnished by the american movie horror syndicates. Overall I gave it a 4 out of five because the story tended to drag a little and lost my attention for the most part. BUT I really like the story in a whole and thought is was very original and worth buying. Some parts even had my heart skip beats because of the no so obviously impacting moments where the ghost comes out of nowhere and well... SCARES YOU. November 27, 2007

Disquieting and disturbing reality

A disquieting film more than a frightening story. A young woman, after a nearly total life of blindness, recuperates her eyesight after getting new corneas grafted on her eyes. But along with them she gets the visionary capability of the young woman who donated them, after her own death. The film does not try to frighten us or even terrorize us. It tries to convince her that this story is true with two doctors as main witnesses and extremely realistic shooting and editing. We are immersed into the story as if it were absolutely normal and true, without any special effects and extraordinary events. What's more it insists on the disturbing effect of this power onto the young woman, to the point of her preferring going back to blindness. Then we end up with extremely disquieting questions. Is eyesight responsible for our unhappiness or mishaps? Do we learn how to reject what we don't like along with seeing when we are children in a segregative not to say racist way? Is our seeing tamed and conditioned early in our life? And this creates in us an uneasy feeling that makes us shrink away from something that could very well be a true fact since our education is not to teach us to see everything but to see in the proper way. The film is trying to convince us of this brainwashing we have been through without even knowing it. Isn't it then better to refuse to see and lock ourselves into some kind of artificial blindness that will protect us from the nightmares of real life. What we do not see does not exist. Isn't that blindness nothing but the same thing as the selective seeing of normal people?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
October 23, 2007

BEAUTIFUL, ARTISTIC, FRIGHTENING!!!

Yet another Asian masterpiece. If you want a frightening yet thoughtful movie, you have to really stick with Asian movies because no one does it better. The Eye is a perfect example. From the start of the movie to the end, I was completely enthralled. Kudos to the Pang brothers for creating such a beautiful, well-crafted movie. Angelica Lee is gorgeous and plays the role of the blind woman very convincingly. All the actors are perfectly cast in their roles. This is kind of a sad scarry movie because (without giving too much of the plot away) the psychic girl was considered a witch and what was her gift became her curse...which she passed on. There are several truly frightening scenes and one very unexpected horrific one.

If you enjoy good ghost stories, intelligent storylines, great acting, and a visual masterpiece you will love this movie. Look for several Korean folklore symbols the Pang brothers have cleverly included in the film, such as the man standing in the middle of the road and the woman's face in the metro window!

September 14, 2007

A Ghost Story...

The story seems simple at first. Mun has her eyesight restored after a corneal transplant. After 18 years of being blind she has to learn how, not just to see, but to understand what she is seeing. She has to link things with names and understand what is happening around her. But when she starts to realize that many of the people around her are no longer living she has no idea how to handle it. Will anybody believe her? Will anybody help her? How can she explain what she is seeing when she was only blind a few days before?
While the film has a few moments that did make my heart race and made me jump in my seat, most of the movie is a chilling thriller, in which the viewer comes to understand what is happening well before Mun and cheer her on. The end is both sad yet also a happy one.
Extras include a making of the movie feature and the normal trailers. I would suggest it for anybody into Asian films, Hong Kong films or horror films. September 9, 2007

unlisted languages

Amazon doesn't list Thai as one of the languages on the DVD. This movie is in Thai and Cantonese with English subtitles. June 21, 2007

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