The Eye

Year: 2002

Country: China

Original Title: The Eye ( 見鬼; 见鬼; Gin3 Gwai2, also known as Seeing Ghosts)

The Cast

Angelica Lee – Wong Kar Mun (as Lee Sin-Je)

Lawrence Chou – Dr. Wah

Chutcha Rujinanon – Ling

Yut Lai So – Yingying

Candy Lo – Yee (Mun’s Sister)

Yin Ping Ko – Mun’s grandmother

Pierre Png – Dr. Eak

Edmund Chen – Dr. Lo

Wai-Ho Yung – Mr. Ching

Wilson Yip – Taoist

Summary

		Blind since the age of two, Mun Mun gets a chance to see the world after a successful cornea transplant. All is peachy-keen. Well, that is until dodgy side effects begin to manifest. Yes, she starts seeing enough dead people to put Haley Joel Osment to shame and not all are friendly. With the help of a doctor, she goes on a journey to find the truth about the previous owner of her eyes.

Pebbles

I really don’t see it has a horror movie; to me it wasn’t scary but more sad than anything else.

Hentai

I would agree with that, but it had some good creepy elements, not really horror, more suspense and chills up the spine.

Pebbles

Yeah.

Hentai

And surprises! Like the kid running past her *omitted for spoilers*, that startled me (laugh)

Pebbles

(laugh) Yeah and the man in the elevator creeped me out.

Hentai

Oh yeah, me too. The kid creeped me out more, but there was less suspense built up with the kid. (laugh)

Pebbles

(laugh) Yeah that’s true. It was kinda sudden.

Hentai

I really liked the music, it set the mood well and helped you get into the story more. The opening sequence was awesome, good imagery to set the mood.

Pebbles

Yeah I agree. I loved how it was dark too.

Hentai

Yes! The special affects were more than I expected too, but in a good way. I liked how everything starts out subtle, until her vision clears and then it’s kind of in your face’ the way it would be if you saw clearly.

Pebbles

Yeah I liked that, they didn’t have her see clearly as soon as she got her vision back, they made it seem more real that way by having everything blurry.

Hentai

Yeah. The actress did a really good job on conveying that too I think. I liked how her first instinct was to touch everything, but she hesitated each time. Even when her vision fully healed she still acted as if she was blind. The actress was really good at drawing you into Mun’s world.

Pebbles

Yeah I agree, she was very convincing, it was as if she was really blind and really just got her eyesight back. She played the role of Mun very well!

Hentai

I would definetley be interested in seeing her other works. And the doctors… that’s just too much sexy in one movie! (laugh) The younger Dr. Lo did a good supporting role.

Pebbles

Same here, and yeah the doctors were very sexy. (laugh) And yeah he did, he was really good.

Hentai

I couldn’t help thinking though, after a while into the movie, that the story seemed familiar already, even though I have never seen it or the American version…

Pebbles

I wonder if it could be based on a movie you may have seen before?

Hentai

But I was pleasantly surprised when it wasn’t as predictable as I thought it would be, even though the ending was quite predictable. I’m still not sure about the ending. I liked it, but I’m still deciding on how much.

Pebbles

A lot of American horror movies are very predictable!

Hentai

Ugh. Yes. Hence the reason I stopped watching them (laugh)

Pebbles

No one really has done anything in awhile that has not been done already. (laugh) Yeah I can see why.

Hentai

Yes, true. As they say ‘there are no original ideas’ left. (laugh) The moral of the movie? I’m sure there is one.

Pebbles

Yeah I think there is one but to describe it might be hard.

Hentai

Yeah, kind of an ‘even when you get what you think you wanted, its not always as you imagined’ kind of moral?

Hentai

Or even ‘be careful what you wish for’ (laugh)

Pebbles

(laugh) Yeah

Hentai

So how many of uh… 5 would you give it overall?

Pebbles

I think for me I would give it… 4 out of 5…

Hentai

I think I would agree with that. I really liked how they put it all together, and the end result was a good movie that made me cry as much as it creeped me out.

Pebbles
Yeah it was very well done!

Pebble’s Overall Rating: ☼☼☼☼/5

Hentai’s Overall Rating: ☼☼☼☼/5