Movie This is sad... (1 Viewer)

[spicy_illusion]

This is a clip of a K-movie called Memento Mori and they both decide to come out in public to their classroom, but one of the girls rejects her even though she originally agreed.

 

[RainbowDevil]

The idea... is there... the execution... is terrible... partially because the camera shows absolutely nothing, the story confuses itself and like... what is a person supposed to get out of this? What message? I know the normal message of people coming out and being rejected, but this does nothing to show us anything new or different really, just a whole lot of abuse and bullying in school...

 

[spicy_illusion]

The idea... is there... the execution... is terrible... partially because the camera shows absolutely nothing, the story confuses itself and like... what is a person supposed to get out of this? What message? I know the normal message of people coming out and being rejected, but this does nothing to show us anything new or different really, just a whole lot of abuse and bullying in school...

Yeah it is true.
I believe this is a horror movie.
I'm not 100% certain but I think the girl who was bullied dies by committing suicide.

 

[RainbowDevil]

Yeah it is true.
I believe this is a horror movie.
I'm not 100% certain but I think the girl who was bullied dies by committing suicide.

Jesus... I did actually get that this is for the Korean public so maybe it isn't as standard as in other places. If it's a horror... not sure how this would classify as horror unless it's like a psychological viewpoint or smn, I mean if they classify it as such. Wish it was done better tbh that's about it.

 

[spicy_illusion]

Jesus... I did actually get that this is for the Korean public so maybe it isn't as standard as in other places. If it's a horror... not sure how this would classify as horror unless it's like a psychological viewpoint or smn, I mean if they classify it as such. Wish it was done better tbh that's about it.

Well to understand it better, here is the synopsis:
The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-eun (Lee Young-jin) and Min Hyo-shin (Park Ye-jin). As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo relationship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with the social pressures of having a lover of the same gender, Shi-Eun tries to distance herself from the increasingly dependent Hyo-shin. Hyo-shin reacts poorly to Shi-eun's changed attitude, viewing it as both a betrayal and rejection. Hyo-shin consequently commits suicide by jumping off of the school roof. It is also heavily implied that she was pregnant at the time of death, the father being literature teacher Mr. Goh.

The plot unfurls in a nonlinear fashion, often from the perspective of fellow student Soh Min-ah (Kim Min-sun). Min-ah grows increasingly invested in Shi-eun and Hyo-shin when she finds a diary kept between the two alienated girls. This diary allows her disturbing insights to the nature of the relationship and pulls her deeper into a strange chain of events around the school. After Hyo-shin's death, supernatural occurrences start to terrorize all of the students that condemned the relationship. It is later revealed that Hyo-shin's spirit is malevolently haunting the school through the remnants she left behind in the diary.

 

[RainbowDevil]

Well to understand it better, here is the synopsis:
The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-eun (Lee Young-jin) and Min Hyo-shin (Park Ye-jin). As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo relationship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with the social pressures of having a lover of the same gender, Shi-Eun tries to distance herself from the increasingly dependent Hyo-shin. Hyo-shin reacts poorly to Shi-eun's changed attitude, viewing it as both a betrayal and rejection. Hyo-shin consequently commits suicide by jumping off of the school roof. It is also heavily implied that she was pregnant at the time of death, the father being literature teacher Mr. Goh.

The plot unfurls in a nonlinear fashion, often from the perspective of fellow student Soh Min-ah (Kim Min-sun). Min-ah grows increasingly invested in Shi-eun and Hyo-shin when she finds a diary kept between the two alienated girls. This diary allows her disturbing insights to the nature of the relationship and pulls her deeper into a strange chain of events around the school. After Hyo-shin's death, supernatural occurrences start to terrorize all of the students that condemned the relationship. It is later revealed that Hyo-shin's spirit is malevolently haunting the school through the remnants she left behind in the diary.

Ok sooo, that makes it even worse... Yes it's a tragic story... but it's using the fact that they were gay... for her to kill herself in service of a horror plot...Which does not help gay people in Korea... doesn't really help people that dislike gays (as they will see it as a joke cause it's a ghost haunting the school, instead of mental repercussions for all the students that were bullying them).

It's the fact that they turned being gay into a plot device rather than a central focus. They have all the rights to do that ofc, but I don't like it. I wonder if she kills the teacher that got her "pregnant" tho, curious

 

[spicy_illusion]

Ok sooo, that makes it even worse... Yes it's a tragic story... but it's using the fact that they were gay... for her to kill herself in service of a horror plot...Which does not help gay people in Korea... doesn't really help people that dislike gays (as they will see it as a joke cause it's a ghost haunting the school, instead of mental repercussions for all the students that were bullying them).

It's the fact that they turned being gay into a plot device rather than a central focus. They have all the rights to do that ofc, but I don't like it. I wonder if she kills the teacher that got her "pregnant" tho, curious

Yes, it's a very strange movie, this is actually the second movie of a series. the first one was a Ballerina theme and the two girls grow close, but then one of them gets jealous because she's taking all of the ballet spotlight by going to Russia, etc, so the jealous girl pushes her down the stairs and almost kills her, this makes the girl who was pushed, depressed and she commits suicide and then starts haunting.

I agree it doesn't really play well for the lgbtq community.