Sun Chae is an ophthalmologist. An unintentional early return home only to discover her husband's infidelity, and in pain, she leaves home with her daughter and rents a house outside, preparing to open a clinic to earn her own living, and hires a designer, In Chul, to design his clinic. She seeks to start a new life, and is eager to find stability according to her own desires. However, on the day when she was going home, Sun Chae was sitting on a subway bench when she saw a pair of pink high-heeled shoes in a trance, and she brought them home.
After that, life was completely changed.
She wore the pink heels, started wearing heavy makeup, talked in a vulgar way, became sassy, and had sex with In-chul, who complimented her on how beautiful she was.
Daughter Tae-soo also likes the shoes unusually when she sees them and fights with her mother for the pink heels in a hostile manner, and starts wearing heavy makeup and acting unusually when her mother is not around.
A friend of Sun Chae's comes to her house and sees the shoes and takes them away from Tae Soo when Sun Chae is no longer there. Wearing pink high heels, she feels unusually beautiful and young, as if she were a dancer. However that night she dies in the large glass window of the bridal store, her feet similarly amputated by the falling glass and her shoes nowhere to be found ......
A series of accidents awakens Sun Chae, who begins to understand the horrors that the heels carry, yet after she discards them it always returns to her and Tae Soo unexplainably.
Through In-chul's investigation, the origin of the heels is finally clarified, and an unknown side of Sun-chae is revealed. ......
60 years ago, the love between a beautiful dancer and a general drew the jealousy of the warlord's daughter, and their love object was the pair of pink high heels. The bottomless unknown of desire is the root of all the bloodshed. The warlord's daughter brutally stabs the dancer, who is pregnant with the general's child, to death. The dancer's soul is bent over the high heels, and the general and the warlord's daughter die a horrible death on their wedding day, entangled in the high heels.
The high heels do not end its evil, because the soul has no place to go.
This one is arguably one of the more prominent Korean horror movies, ranking sixth at the box office in its first week in Korea. The director is Kim Ho-joon, who has made two underage-themed movies, "My Little Bride" and "Jenny, Juno. He suddenly transformed to change the formula to make a horror movie.
It really doesn't matter if it's an unfortunate marriage or the story of that wrongful death 60 years ago. Pink high heels is actually just an excuse. The root lies in the fact that Sun Chae suffers from severe personality schizophrenia as well as her strong possessiveness.
Possessing a fetish for collecting shoes, she has a shoe cabinet like a store display, exquisite glass frames and crystal shelves, all of which reflect her love for shoes. Her daughter, too, is obsessed with shoes, especially brightly colored ones, so much so that she won't go to dance class without red shoes. However, her husband makes her lover wear her favorite shoes and praises her for wearing them more beautifully than Sun Chae, and although Sun Chae has not shown any anger up to this point, and seems to just calmly accept it all, it is all implied. Unable to get her husband's love, Sun Chae kills her husband with her own high heels, and this is before she meets the pink high heels, which proves that Sun Chae has already begun to move towards personality schizophrenia. And after meeting the pink high heels, it emphasizes her possessiveness, as long as it is something she wants, she won't allow others to snatch it, so she cuts off the feet of the high school girl, kills her best friend, her husband who betrayed her, her daughter who went against her will, and her lover In Chul who has understood everything.......
High-heeled shoes nailed into the eyes of her husband, Sun Chae's best friend's eyes gouged out by stabbing nudity, blood pouring out from the roof of the house, Tae-soo's fall from the rooftop in her dream, Sun Chae's inner fear, suffocating hallucinations, hysterical screams, laughter, and all the dialogue under the complete loss of reason ...... It can be said that the director has done his best to make the scenes of stabbing nudity and The bloody scene is basically from the beginning through to the end, horror thriller can be comparable to the European and American horror movies, in the plot is also shot in the chapter, and did not show the abstract complexity. It can be regarded as an extreme of Korean horror movie.
But the ending left me a bit baffled and rough.
No closure was given to Sun Chae, just the truth told through interspersed episodes, leaving just the shadow of a ghost.
Frequent ghost watchers can sense that this is a combination of movies.
There is an iconic item, and then interspersed with bridges left over from N years ago, and a certain fit in the present, a twisted plot, a witness to history ....
One night's choice, only
PS: After reading the above description, should understand it, in fact, horror films, that is, suspense, can not use normal thinking to judge it, there is no 100% sure answer, the director may not know, probably that means on the line, there is no need to ask that much why
These are the reasons why the film is so popular.