Gabal (2005)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.3/10   

Réalisateur:

Shin-yeon Won

Writers:

Sung-won Cho (screenplay)
Hyun-jung Do (story)

Release Date:

12 août 2005 (South Korea)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

In Seoul, Su-Hyeon is terminal with leukemia, and bald due the treatment of chemotherapy. Her sister Ji-Hyeon buys a long-haired wig...

Plot Keywords:

Wig | Suicide | Possession | Homosexual | Hair Loss

Avis des utilisateurs:

Better than I expected

Ensemble

Min-seo Chae	...	Su-hyeon
Hyon-Jin Sa
Seon Yu	...	Ji-hyeon

Autre(s) titre(s):

The Wig (International: English title) (Philippines: English title) (DVD title) (Singapore: English title)
The Wig (France) [fr]

Durée:

South Korea:106 min

Pays:

South Korea

Langue:

Coréen

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

South Korea:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:R-15 | UK:18

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

South Korea

Guillemet:

Su-hyeon: Ji-hyun... At the amusement park... Do you remember the balloons dad bought us? As we fought over the prettier color, the balloon flew up to the sky. I cried, and so did you... So you told me... Later, when I'm grown up, you'd put wings on me. So I could go to the sky and find the balloon... Ji-hyun... Thank you for the wings.

Better than I expected

At first I felt annoyed because finally they did a movie out of long black hairs, which was prevalent in a lot of Asian horror movies after "the ring" came out. Titles include The Dollmaster, The Phone, Ju-on or The Grudge, Tale of Two Sisters and so and so forth.

The story is about a young woman who has gone past chemotherapy and is currently trying to live the life she never had. Her elder sisters life was also affected not only because her sisters terminal illness but because she is the only left to take care of her younger sister and she cant go on with life and get married and start a family.

Chi-Hyon, the elder sister, decided to buy a wig for her younger sister, Suh-Hyon, who almost automatically improved overnight after wearing the wig. Then the trouble started.

The film was also a bit longer than I expected, all of which were enough to let the audiences feel empathy for Suh-Hyon (the cancer survivor) as well as get mesmerized by her long silky black hair, which of course has the lead role in the film. Chi-Hyon, her elder sister, was also portrayed as ever caring and slightly on a martyr level, leaving the audiences to feel annoyed and at the same time pity Suh-Hyon.

This movie is internationally called "The Wig".