Voices (2007)

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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.

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"

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

Pretty good K-Horror film starring Yoon Jin-Seo as Ga-in, a young lady who seems to have a good life. She does okay in school, has parents, a younger sister and a good boyfriend. The story begins unfolding when her aunt is thrown from a balcony on her wedding day by her own sister. It turns out, the family has a history of violent death, just about all at the hands of family members. There are good special effects and Yoon Jin-Seo is a good actress. The story is never boring and a few crazy things happen but that is all part of the "fun". If you like horror check this out. If you have never tried K-Horror, there are better films like "A Tale Of Two Sisters", but this is good also.