More like "A Muddled Tale Of Utter Confusion". Or "Yet Another Asian Tale Of A Long-Haired Zombie Woman/Girl Appearing Out Of The Furniture". Do we need more dead Asian girls walking slowly with their faces covered with black hair? Come on! That shtick is getting old, everyone! Funnily enough, those scenes aren't even that bad. The style and the acting is quite solid, the mood is okay, but
The main problem is the plot, which is as confusing as any I've seen in many years. Not nearly as absurd i.e. dumb and unsolvable as for example "Lost Highway", but not far from it either. From the point we find out that the older(?) sister is imagining her long-dead sister, things get incomprehensible. The moment of finding this out is good, but it's downhill from there. What follows is a series of scenes that, though at least effective and not boring, pile on the confusion to the point when one simply gives up on the plot.
There is a certain line that can be blurred between reality and fantasy/hallucination, but that line isn't so much blurred here as it's simply crushed, obliterated. Who is seeing whom? Who is doing what and when? Who exists and who doesn't? Who is looking at what and why? It's just a jumble. This is supposed to be based on an old Korean tale. Let's just hope traditional Korean tales aren't this confusing but are only told in such a way. At one point the stepmother says "how did it come to this?", and I was thinking "come to what?!... what the hell is going on?!". In the end we find out how the mother and the sister died, and the way the latter dies was very silly indeed. Even sillier was how the stepmother reacts to this accident namely by not telling anyone! Sorry, that is too stupid The cupboard falls on the girl, and stepmom just walks out?????
There is a certain line that can be blurred between reality and fantasy/hallucination, but that line isn't so much blurred here as it's simply crushed, obliterated. Who is seeing whom? Who is doing what and when? Who exists and who doesn't? Who is looking at what and why? It's just a jumble. This is supposed to be based on an old Korean tale. Let's just hope traditional Korean tales aren't this confusing but are only told in such a way. At one point the stepmother says "how did it come to this?", and I was thinking "come to what?!... what the hell is going on?!". In the end we find out how the mother and the sister died, and the way the latter dies was very silly indeed. Even sillier was how the stepmother reacts to this accident namely by not telling anyone! Sorry, that is too stupid The cupboard falls on the girl, and stepmom just walks out?????