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Soon-jung (Eom Jeong-hwa) seems to have made a habit out of killing
people who have not the slightest connection to each other, the violent
stepmom of a young girl, a bitchy shopmanager, her rich
boyfriend, a cabdriver, the waiter of a restaurant. But
she all kills them in bizarre ways, often sings them a nursery rhyme or
plays a tape of her (dead) daughter Min-ah singing it - and at each
crimescene she leaves behind a sticker of Princess Aurora, a
popular cartoon character.
Oh, the inspector investigating the case, is actually Soon-jung's
ex-husband (and Min-ah's father), and soon enough he (before everyone
else) realizes that all clues lead to his ex, but for the love of god, he
can't find a motive. Only eventually does he link her killings to the
death of Min-ah at the hands of a child-molester, and eventually, he can
even predict who her next victim will be: lawyer Kim, who defended
Min-ah's killer in court and had him sent to a mental execution instead of
lifelong prison. But once he has figured that out, it seems to already be
too late, since Soon-jung has kidnapped lawyer Kim, has tied him to a
crane and now wants to crush him ... on live-TV, since the media got wind
of the affair.
However, she can be overcome before she can kill Kim, and is arrested.
Only when she is taken away by the police does the whole case fall
together (at least for the audience): Soon-jung was supposed to pick up
her daughter, but then she had a car accident with the waiter, and
the violent stepmom of Min-ah's friend refused to wait for her
mother with Min-ah but made her wait in a shop, where the bitchy
shopmanager and her rich boyfriend threw her out after closing
time. Then Min-ah took a cab, but since she couldn't afford the fare, the cabdriver
threw her out as well, in the middle of nowhere ... which is when the
child-molester picked her up ...
Because she obviously has a screw loose, Soon-jung is not sent to
prison but to a mental institution ... yep, exactly the one where the
killer of her daughter has found refuge as well. Inspector Oh meanwhile
has started to understand his ex, and has quit his job at the police force
as well as his studying to become a priest ... and with a bible he hands
over to Soon-jung, Oh smuggles a blade into the asylum, a blade that
Soon-jung uses to kill her daughters killer, and then herself, with a
smile on her face.
Of all the people involved, it seems only lawyer Kim got out lucky ...
but wait a minute, after meeting with Oh, what does the Princess
Aurora-sticker do on his car ?
Though some ideas of this film are not half bad (the bizarre murders,
the Aurora stickers, ...), overall, Princess Aurora is little more
than your standard revenge thriller that tries way too hard to be original
(like in obscuring the actual connection between Soon-jung's victims,
making the killer the ex of the investigator, making the investigator a
wannabe-priest) to really succeed (once we learn it's all because
Soon-jung's daughter was killed, we don't really care about the actual
connection anymore, the fact that killer and investigator once were
husband and wife has weirdly little effect on the story, and why bother
mentioning he is studying to be a priest in the first place if this isn't
explored at all ?). Rather disappointing, actually.
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