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Cello
Oct 19, 2009 13:43:50 GMT -5
Post by Jen on Oct 19, 2009 13:43:50 GMT -5
Cello(2005) Directed by: Woo-cheol Lee A music teacher is haunted by memories of the fatal car accident that caused the death of her best friend. ~~~~~~~ Rate this film on a scale of 0-5 Stars, 5 being the best.
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Cello
Oct 19, 2009 19:17:52 GMT -5
Post by CT on Oct 19, 2009 19:17:52 GMT -5
South Korean, eh? Haven't seen it but sounds interesting.
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Cello
Oct 20, 2009 9:55:16 GMT -5
Post by GL on Oct 20, 2009 9:55:16 GMT -5
I thought it was pretty good, some fine ghost-related scares and a couple of really good scenes at the end due to a fantastic twist that caught me off-guard, but way too much time spent on that nonsense with the reaction to her music lessons during the middle scenes, some really short haunting scenes that could've gone much longer and, while the twist is certainly unexpected, there's a reason: in that it makes no sense at all and doesn't really serve a purpose in the film. I've definitely seen worse, but it does need some work.
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Cello
Oct 20, 2009 12:01:23 GMT -5
Post by HNT on Oct 20, 2009 12:01:23 GMT -5
I know nothing about this one at all, but that promo poster certainly has my interest. I think I'll be checking this one out
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Cello
Oct 20, 2009 12:44:15 GMT -5
Post by Jen on Oct 20, 2009 12:44:15 GMT -5
I haven't watched it yet, I posted the thread because I was planning to yesterday, but I ended up spending that time reading instead. I will be watching it today sometime (hopefully).
HNT, I think the poster is great, definitely intriguing.
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Cello
Oct 21, 2009 9:48:44 GMT -5
Post by GL on Oct 21, 2009 9:48:44 GMT -5
Try it, I think you'll both like it. It's not the best SK has ever produced, but it's definitely a lot of fun.
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Cello
Oct 21, 2009 11:54:57 GMT -5
Post by Jen on Oct 21, 2009 11:54:57 GMT -5
I give it a 4.... It does have its problems, its slow (too slow, really) and the ending gets slightly confused (though I think all of it makes sense and mostly fits together pretty good). Its also derivative.
But even with its problems, I really liked it. Its not only spooky, but sad. I really felt bad for this woman by the end, this seemed like a particularly cruel haunting (if a haunting is what it is).
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Cello
Oct 22, 2009 9:51:55 GMT -5
Post by GL on Oct 22, 2009 9:51:55 GMT -5
I've tried numerous times to figure out the ending to this one (and One Missed Call as well) and have had no luck at all in determining what the hell was going on. I took it that her car accident happened in real time and she was flashing back to the beginning of how she came to be in the situation, then when she gets to reliving the moment of the crash, it switches back to real-life and she goes on with normal reality.
But I'm usually wrong in these instances.
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Cello
Oct 22, 2009 11:41:24 GMT -5
Post by Jen on Oct 22, 2009 11:41:24 GMT -5
I've tried numerous times to figure out the ending to this one (and One Missed Call as well) and have had no luck at all in determining what the hell was going on. I took it that her car accident happened in real time and she was flashing back to the beginning of how she came to be in the situation, then when she gets to reliving the moment of the crash, it switches back to real-life and she goes on with normal reality. But I'm usually wrong in these instances. Don't try with One Missed Call, you will just give yourself a headache....LOL....seriously, that one had me baffled as well. But I only watched it once. As for Cello....I have two theories..... One: She's crazy, and its the guilt of what she did that is haunting her, not a ghost. Nothing is happening as we see it happen exactly.
Two: She died in the second car accident (caused by her dead friend, back for revenge, or may have been suicide.) and is stuck in some kind of loop, a purgatory where she will always, no matter what she does, lose everything she loves. The time in the hospital was only a way to make her feel as if everything was back to normal, that she had imagined it. But the very end implies that she be going through all that happened, or variations of what happened, over and over again....."This is only the beginning" is written on the album that her sister in law gave her for her birthday the second time around. It wasn't normal reality, she was was already reliving moments she had experienced before, and would continue to do so, its her own personal hell, as orchestrated by the spirit of Kim Tae-yeon. This is the one I like, and I think makes the most sense.
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Cello
Oct 22, 2009 12:07:25 GMT -5
Post by GL on Oct 22, 2009 12:07:25 GMT -5
That second one does indeed make more sense. Guilt and hidden repressive feelings boiling to the surface are common themes in what little of the Asian genre fare I've gone through, and coupled with that album note (I missed what it said clearly due to my TV version going slightly static-y during that whole sequence) it would indeed be somewhat logical to conclude that. I think a little of mine and a lot of yours are probably the correct version.
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