Voices
Voices
R | 22 August 2007 (USA)
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A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.

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qmtv

Production is well made, good actors, sets, cinematography, music, editing. Decent idea. Basically, the kid is cursed, or there's a demon that pushed people to kill. But the demon idea is completely thrown out the window when they somehow shoehorn the girl's boyfriend is out for revenge. What the hell was that? If they just kept it as a demon pushing people to kill others or commit suicide, then it would be a simple idea but it would work. The idea of the boyfriend's family being wrong to or whatever that was and seeking revenge is nonsense. I saw this with English subtitles. As some other reviews mentioned that something may have been lost in the translation and/or the cultural view of the society. But I think I got the point of the film. It was well made and one can sit through it and be entertained and shocked by the proceedings. And I believe if they went back in and edited out the boyfriend nonsense this film's plot holes would be less. Everything else on how the curse or that strange boy (The demon) coming to the school and pushing people to death, is still a big plot hole. That can't be fixed in editing. Only in a remake. It is so important that writers create a story/screenplay that not only contains words, but those words create a story that's relatively complete. We don't get that with this movie. And unfortunately we don't get that with most movies.In the beginning we see a woman stabbed and dead or dying in front of a little boy. She then jumps out at the kid. Good for quick suspense and decent open. But where does that fit in with the rest of the movie? Then were introduced to the lead character and her sister in school. They go to their aunt's wedding where the aunt is pushed or jumps off a balcony. She cracks her head and tons of blood. Good visuals. I would say this woman is dead. But no. They take her to the hospital and after surgery she's in the hospital bed. Ok. Then this woman's sister starts stabbing her. Again, visually it looks great. But after 30 stab wounds the woman finally, finally dies. Ok, so now that woman is taken away. We see her once more when the lead character visits her. But never again. So, next thing we know, the lead character is being attacked by her classmate, teacher, another classmate, her mother. What is going on? We don't know. Is it a curse? There are some serious plot problems here. Where is the connection between her aunt who fell off the balcony, and her other aunt killing her sister, and now she is the target of death? Rating is a C for a B movie. 5 stars, mostly for the acting and production. Screenplay is a failure.

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jfernandezjosh

Since The Year 2008 I Discovered This on the Internt,I Only Watched the Original Trailer on Youtube,Since 2009 i re-discovered it and buy the DVD,When i watched it i,m not so scared,I,m braver in watching it,s scenes,This gives me more plot twists and plot surprises,The 2007 South Korean Supernatural Thriller was loosely based on a comic strip written by Oh-Ki-Hwan under it,s original title "Two Will Come",This is provided with buckets of blood and oceans of murder victims,No long-haired spirits,But actually demons(in human form)and hearing strange noises,The film opens with a ghostly sequence where a little boy witnessed a mysterious murder of a woman in his own home,Blood smears over the television set,As he gets closer to the dead woman her eyes are opened and utters a hair-raising scream,Then we see on the opening credits Newspaper Reports that reads "Jumps Off-Balcony" and "Kills Mother and Daughter"And other spectacular and horrible past killings which were taking place since the past few years,The scene moves on to the main protagonist Ga-In(Yun-Jin Seo)who is a normal high school teen who has a talent for Fencing,Has a Lovng Family,A Cool Friend,And a Tender Boyfriend,The next day she,her boyfriend by the name of Hyun-Joong(Lee Ki Woo)and her family attends the wedding party of their Aunt Ji-Sun,But soon her Aunt,s happiest day of her life was turned into an act of violence where she was accidentally pushed from the balcony which was done by her Groom(Ahn Shin Woo),She witnessed this terrible event,After the accident happened Ji-Sun was rushed to the hospital and is confined where she was gruesomely stabbed by another aunt of Ga-In,s Jung-Sun(Yu- Jeong Seo),Ga-In sees this violent event,What if ever the people around you ,love,support and cared for you now are out to kill you faster,Will you race against time to uncover a murderous secret?,After the horrible murder of her Aunt,She began to experience mysterious and weird events at her home and school,In the dream sequence while she is sleeping she saw an apparition of a girl who is covered in blood telling her that she,ll be the next victim of the so-called "Family Curse"But when a string of inexplicable deaths of one of her family members,relatives,loved ones and friends,I Think she holds the answers to all her nightmares,Then The Clinic scene my favorite was Ga-In sees a vision of a shadowy figure(in shape of a lady)frightens her with a deformed hand,Actually Ghosts or Spirits of Dead Persons are actually demons or evil spirits,Because These Demonic Creatures pretend to be the spirit of a dead person or a loved one,Ga-In herself is attacked by another murderous schoolgirl Eun-Kyung(Oh Yeon Seo)who plans to kill her with a scissor,Then she is watched by a Mysterious Student with a dark past by the name of Seok-Min(Park-Ki Woong)Well i know that he is a Mysterious Villain and his role is very creepy,He then warns her "Don,t Trust Anyone,Your Family,Friends,Relatives,Not even yourself"Seok-Min is a mysterious schoolboy since in the Dream Sequence he stabs the spirit of his Father,The Locker Room scene follows Where she is grabbed by a deformed creature who then sometimes haunts her in her visions warning her that more killings will increase,There is an additional inexplicable scene where she hears a mysterious wind blows by closing the gate after she have accepted the Invitation given to her by another student by the name of Sang-Kyung who then have his try to kill her with a Baseball Bat,Terrified for her life she flees inside the house and sees her Mother throwing a Kitchen Knife at her then picks up a stiletto and shouts at her "DIE" Her Husband stops her,Then she travels with Seok-Min to a mysterious place in order to look and search for the mystery Behind these strange murders,The stranger by the name of Dae-Young confesses his dark past to her of why did he killed his wife,Then the next day At School she sees a vision of her Best Dude attempts to push her from the Balcony,But she ignored her and leaves school,One Night as her parents slowly to get murdered,She wakes up and makes her way downstairs where she finds Hyun-Joong(who turns out to be the last villain)Then turns around and saw her Parents sitting dead on the table,She mourns out loud ,Hyun-Joong reveals to her that he killed them because he had manipulated her to get close to her family in order to get back at her Father,This Movie is a Giallo-Supernatural Slasher style!This is one of the Inspiring Serial Killer Films like that of Suspiria(1977),The Bird With The Crystal Plumage(1970),Deep Red(1975) and Trauma(1993).

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gftorain

The opening scene is of a young boy in shock, reaching out to his (apparently) recently murdered mother. Who is this kid? It isn't the brooding "new guy" in school- he murdered his father. It isn't the boyfriend- his father tried to burn everyone to death. Mom, in her final act, shielded her son from the flames with her body.Okay. So why was the aunt murdered? Is the brooding boy a demon? Who was the recluse? What did he have in connection with ANYONE? Is our lead character insane? I don't know much about Korean culture, but I find it odd that the parents of a high-schooler didn't bother with at least finding out the name of her adult boyfriend, whom they we well aware of. In a flash-back, we learn that the boyfriend blames our lead character for his ill-fortune, even though our lead character was a toddler in the flashback, and her father showed an act of charity. How were the two families connected? If this review is muddled, choppy and not quite cohesive, then I've put you in the perfect mindset for "Voices"

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Claudio Carvalho

In Sung-Nam City, the teenager Ga-in Kim (Jin-seo Yun) goes with her family and her boy-friend Hyung-Joong (Ki-woo Lee) to the wedding of her aunt Ji-sun and she sees the bride falling off a balcony. Then she witnesses Jung-sun (Yu-jeong Seo) violently stabbing her sister Ji-sun in the hospital. In school, the outcast Sung-min (Gi-woong Park) tells her that the events were not accidents and advises her to not trust anyone, friends, and family, not even herself. Ga-in believes in a family curse and almost gets killed by the classmate Eun-kyung (Kan-hie Lee); then by her teacher; then by her mate in fencing. When her mother attempts to kill her, Ga-in becomes completely paranoid and travels to visit a strange with Sung-min to seek answers for the curse."Du saram-yida" a.k.a. "Voices" is an ambiguous and confused tale of manipulation and paranoia with a great potential. Unfortunately the flawed and messy screenplay is never clear and it seems that Sung-min is indeed a manipulative demon or evil force that is visible only for his victims that pushes the characters to a paranoid behavior, culminating with a death wish. I like Asian movies that usually requires interpretation of the stories; however, the subplot with Ga-in's boyfriend is ridiculous and the weakest part of the complicated screenplay. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): Not Available

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