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Geoul Sokeuro

Into the Mirror

South Korea 2003
produced by
Kim Eun-young for Key Plus Pictures, Cinema Service
directed by Kim Seong-ho
starring Yu Ji-tae, Kim Myeong-min, Kim Hye-na, Gi Ju-bong, Kim Myoeng-su, Lee Young-jin, Jeong Eun-pyo
written by Kim Seong-ho

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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The Dreamapia department store is just about to reopen after it was destroyed by a fire, when several employees turn up dead, & chief of security Woo (Yu Ji-tae) is told to investigate ... not a single task for him as he, a former policeman, is allergic to all police work, since he accidently caused one of his partners to be shot in a hostage situatin a few years back. The case is of course further complicated by arrogant police inspector Ha (Kim Myeong-min), who officially heads the investigations & who detests Woo for having caused the death of another officer, & by the fact that that the killer is really a spirit who hides in the store'S mirrors - but only the audience knows that yet.

Soon, Woo & Ha independently come up with some clues leading to a woman - actually the only person - who was killed in the department store fire, Lee Jeong-hyeon (Kim Hye-na), as it seems all the people killed so far had been working in an office with her ... & Jeong-hyeon had a twin-sister, Ji-hyeon (also Kim Hye-na), who is obsessed with mirrors, & who has spent quite some time in a mental institution.

But while detective Ha only sees a taylormade culprit in her & ultimately has her arrested, Woo digs deeper, & is soon receiving some messages from beyond which lead him to find a certain account-book that could throw a bad light on director Choi (Kim Myoeng-su), a businessman who has long expressed interest in taking over the Dreamapia department store from chairman Jeon (Gi Ju-bong), with all means, legal or illegal. But then an other killing happens, another one of Lee Jeong-hyeon's colleagues, & this time everything is pointing to Woo, & despite his pleas of innocence & claims against director Choi, he is arrested by Ha.

Only when director Choi really takes over the store does this shed a different light on Woo's claims & Ha decides to facilitate Woo's jailbreak.

Woo decides to have a final showdown with Choi where he confronts him with everathing he has found out, in the store, after closing hour, but it's not quite as easy as it sounds when Ji-hyeon shows up too & they find Jeong-hyeon's dead body walled in behind one of the stores windows (she wasn't killed in the fire after all, but before that & the fire was just laid to cover up the killing, with someone else being burned for her), & Choi, knowing that he would be found out sooner or later, doesn't come unarmed ...

& when HA shows up too, also not unarmed, a big shoot-out follows, with Woo being shot, but not killed, Ha being taken hostage, & Woo this time able to save him ... but in the end, the day is saved by Jeong hyeon, the spirit, who finally avenges her own murder (she was killed by Choi & her colleagues for blackmailing Choi).

Everything seems to be alright again, with Woo only having to spend a few days in hospital, before being able to step out into the world again ... only to have to realize he now is caught in the world behind the mirror ...


A blend of ghost-story, crime thriller, & story about a man coming to grips with his own fears ... & rather surprisingly, it is remarkably well done, with its different genre elements neatly balanced out, with enough unpredicatable plottwists to keep the story interesting, & of course the obligatory good portion of suspense. All this might not result into high art, not even a highly original film, but excellent & intelligent genre entertainment.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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