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For any of you that don’t yet know, I am a fan of Tartan Asia Movies, maybe that’s how you got here from another review or something. Despite them being world cinema with subtitles they are probably the best films out with fantastic plots, twists, visuals and characters.
Memento Mori is a part of three-film series (along with with Whispering Corridors and Wishing Stairs) Wishing Stairs being about girls at school that believe if you walk the wishing stairs and reach the 28th the 29th will appear and grant you your wish. Whispering Corridors, involving the female school, with brutality and abuse, by the teachers - and previous suicides of the school goers. The films are only linked through the Korean school girls, but no other connections between them, Memento Mori is part three in the film series.
Memento Mori is not much of a horror movie, but focuses on the tragic events and the relationship between two girls. Min-ah (played by Min-sun Kim) a student who films a diary that is kept by two girls at the school, which were involved in a secret relationship with one another, basically the friendship is just intense relationship, without any sexual content, which would add tension to the movie.
The main event is that a girl Hyo-shin has an affair with a teacher at the school and becomes pregnant, she fears that the truth is going to leak out, during the public school health examinations in front of the other girls, she has been abandoned by the teacher and her school friend Shi-eun (played by Young-jin Lee) and she cannot face the consequences of her actions and throws herself off the top of the school building - making her fall to her death. The events do not happen in order which makes the film confusing but it all does fit together with the flashbacks which are seen as Min-ah's hallucinations/flashes as she reads the diary, to help our understanding of the film, she becomes obsessed with the diary, and fakes being sick to skive the class to continue her reading of the diary. Hyo-shin’s spirit starts to come through and Min-ah is used to be a ghost for Hyo to take her revenge. The relationship between Hyo-shin and Shi-eun is further explored, Hyo-shin's spirit wants revenged, but she doesn’t want to frighten though who were horrible to her, before her death but she wants to get back at Min-ah for uncovering the relationship story within the diary - yet the other classmates knew already about the relationship as they kissed in the classroom. Hyo-shin's wants those that remain alive to remember and understand her death, and they never understood her in life. Finally Hyo-shin’s ghost is seen by the school, which makes everyone freak out, they are all going hysterical, running around aimlessly, and countlessly - and things unwind from there - Hyo-shin is looking down on them all.
I wouldn’t say that this is the best tartan asia movie, but it is good, it comes to sense after you see the flashbacks and the reading of the diary, the actresses were convincing, the plot was alright, could have made more sense in some places. But the film was very colourful and visual, easy to watch - you weren’t bored.. And damn!! this is the second time I wrote this review, so sorry if it lacked, but my internet connection failed and the back button on the browser didn't work.
Anyway thanks for reading, and if you like Tartan Asia Movies, i'm sure to have some other reviews for you to see if you haven't seen the movies!
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Re-rated based on Ciao's insistence that such reviews are no longer considered "Off Topic"
Soho_Black 02.06.2007 15:16
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
Moogiekupo 29.05.2007 21:15
Personally, I thought this was the worse out of the trilogy, wish Wishing Stairs beging my favourite. A good review - Kupo x
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