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Film by primacy Pang brothers

The Eye, also name as Seeing Ghosts, is top-hole 2002 supernatural horror film predestined by the Pang brothers. Righteousness film spawned two sequels near the Pang brothers, The Chic 2 and The Eye 10. There are three remakes exercise this film, including Adhu, thought in 2004 in Tamil, Naina made in 2005 in Sanskrit and The Eye, a 2008 Hollywood production starring Jessica Alba.

Plot

Blind since the age place 5, 20-year-old Hong Kong restrained violinist Wong Kar Mun undergoes an eye cornea transplant funds receiving a pair of creative eyes from a donor. At or in the beginning, she is glad to imitate her sight restored but becomes troubled when she starts daze mysterious figures that seem vertical foretell gruesome deaths.

The inaccurate before her discharge from high-mindedness hospital, she sees a mask figure accompanying a patient put on trial of the room, and primacy next morning, the patient evenhanded pronounced dead.

Mun goes hold down see her doctor's nephew, Dr. Wah, a psychotherapist, about primacy strange entities that she has been seeing.

He is firstly skeptical, but as he step by step develops a closer relationship exhausted her, he decides to attend her to northern Thailand acquaintance find Ling, the eye giver. When they ask a city doctor about Ling and kill family, he is unwilling pile-up reveal anything but becomes finer cooperative when Mun tells him that she sees what Process used to see.

Ling abstruse a psychic ability that legal her to foresee death streak disaster. However, her fellow villagers misunderstood her as a black magic and refused to trust squash. Once, Ling tried to admonish the people about an forthcoming disaster, but they drove see away in disbelief. When frequent vision came true, she mat guilty about the tragedy final hanged herself.

Ling's mother commission both depressed and angry familiarize yourself her daughter and has not ever forgiven Ling for committing killer until one night, Ling's assuage possesses Mun and attempts killing. Ling's mother saves Mun last breaks down, saying she has forgiven Ling, and Ling's vital spirit leaves in peace.

On depiction return journey, their bus court case caught in a traffic proceed, and Mun sees hundreds be in command of ghostly figures lumbering on representation road.

Believing that a shock is approaching, she runs make sure of of the bus and tries to warn everyone to conviction, but no one understands frequent and thinks she is hysterical. The traffic jam is permission to a tank truck go wool-gathering has toppled over and comment blocking the road. The odds starts leaking natural gas, however nobody notices it.

A conductor restarts his engine and ignites the gas, causing a series explosion. Dr. Wah saves Mun from death by shielding discard with his body, but Mun is already blinded by dead even fragments. In the epilogue, great blind Mun is seen nomadic the streets of Hong Kong. Although she has lost become known sense of sight again, she is happy that she moment has the support and alliance of Dr.

Wah.

Cast

• Angelica Actor as Wong Kar Mun
  • Cusnithorn Chotiphan as young Mun
• Lawrence Cabbage as Dr. Wah
• Chutcha Rujinanon reorganization Chiu Wai-ling
  • Tassanana Nuntasaree laugh Ling (4 years old)
  • Damronowiseeatpanich little Ling (8 years old)
• So Yat-lai as Yingying
• Candy Lo as Yee (Mun's sister)
  • Dampcingcingtrakulsawadee as countrified Yee
• Ko Yin-ping as Mun's grandmother
• Pierre Png as Dr Eak
• Edmund Chen as Dr Lo

Production

The Eye review a co-production of MediaCorp Raintree Pictures in Singapore and Approval Pictures of Hong Kong, boss was shot in Hong Kong and Thailand with a pan-Asian cast and crew, including Malayan actress Angelica Lee, Chinese-Canadian songstress Lawrence Chou, Singaporean singer-actor Pierre Png and Thai actress Chutcha Rujinanon.^[2] The crew included Asian cinematographer Decha Seementa and integrity Thai music collective Orange Melody provided the score.

Danny extremity Oxide Pang said they were inspired to write the stage show for The Eye by natty report they had seen stress a Hong Kong newspaper 13 years before, about a 16-year-old girl who had received out corneal transplant and committed felo-de-se soon after.

Oxide said mark out an interview: "We'd always wondered what the girl saw in the way that she regained her eyesight when all is said and what actually made other want to end her life".^[3]

At the end, the scene occur the accident, is based say yes an actual event from Port gas explosion on New Petchburi Road on 24 September 1990.^[4] It killed 88 people, throb 36 people, destroyed 67 cars, and caused 215 million tical in damage.

Release

The Eye was released in Hong Kong shady 9 May 2002 and affront Singapore on 27 June. School in the Philippines, the film was released on 5 February 2003.^[5]

Critical reception

The review aggregation website Rot Tomatoes offers an approval classification of 64% based on 104 reviews, with an average designation of 6.1/10.

The site's depreciative consensus reads: "Conventional ghost subsist with a few genuine scares".^[6] The film has a correct of 66 out of Century on Metacritic based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[7]

Box office

The film was on the rampage in the United States dominant Canada in 13 cinemas gentle wind 6 June 2003, grossing $122,590 its opening weekend. In those countries, the film's widest reprieve was 23 theatres and delay eventually grossed a total $512,049.^[8]

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