Voice (Korean: 여고괴담 4: 목소리; RR: Yeogo goedam 4: Moksori; also known as Whispering Corridors 4: Voice and Voice Letter) is a 2005 South Korean horror film, and the fourth installment of the Whispering Corridors film series. The film was the debut film for its three young actresses, as well as director Choi Ik-Hwan, who had served as an assistant director on the first film of the series.[2][3][4][5]
| Voice | |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 여고괴담 4: 목소리 |
| Revised Romanization | Yeogogoedam 4: moksori |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yŏgogoedam 4: moksori |
| Directed by | Choi Ik-Hwan |
| Written by | Choi Ik-Hwan |
| Produced by |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Kim Yong-Heung |
| Edited by | Kim Sun-Min |
| Music by |
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Production company | |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$2.9 million[1] |
It was screened at the 2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival.[6]
Plot
editYoung-eon (Kim Ok-bin), the top singer at an all-girls school, is murdered by a music sheet cutting her throat in the opening scene. The next day her ghost returns, but nobody can see or hear her spirit except her friend Seon-min (Seo Ji-hye), who can only hear her. The two attempt to find out what happened to Young-eon, as her memory is fractured. Seon-min begins speculating that the music teacher must have killed Young-eon. Young-eon begins to have flashbacks about her past and about the time when she was murdered.
Seon-min befriends a strange and lonely girl at school named Cho-ah (Cha Ye-ryun), who can hear the voices of the dead, and she decides to help the two. Meanwhile, the music teacher kills herself. Seon-min begins to doubt what Young-eon says about her past after Cho-ah tells her that ghosts only remember what they want to, meaning Young-eon's memory may be incorrect. Young-eon's body is found in on top of the elevator.
Young-eon learns that if Seon-min forgets about her, nobody will be able to hear her, and she begins to have increasingly disturbing and bizarre flashbacks about her mother’s suicide, which Young-eon carelessly encouraged her to go through with while lacking understanding of the consequences of her actions. She meets Hyo-jung, another ghost who she has conflicting memories about.
It turns out that Young-eon had previously had a rivalry with Hyo-jung due to their similar voices and began to wish that the teacher was dead in order to cause Hyo-jung, who was in love with the teacher, to quit music, and that in an intense confrontation the two had actually killed each other. Seon-min, after learning this, thinks Young-eon should move on and be at peace but Young-eon is angered by her statement, since she wants nothing more than to live again. Young-eon flies into a rage and kills Cho-ah and takes over Seon-min's body. She then walks alongside Seon-min's mother, talking about how, as soon as she is old enough, she will learn to drive, replicating a conversation she had had with her mother before her mother committed suicide.
A scene during the credits shows Cho-ah shouting in frustration, but as she is voiceless, no sound comes out.
Cast
edit- Kim Ok-vin as Young-Eun
- Seo Ji-hye as Seon-Min
- Cha Ye-ryun as Cho-Ah
- Kim Seo-hyung as Hee-Yeon, the music teacher
- Im Hyun-Kyung as Hyo-Jung
- Jeon Ji-ae as Hwa-Jung
- Yoon Young as Hye-Sun
- Lee Eun as Mi-Hee
- Sun Joo-Yeon as Jin-Young
- Won Ae-Ri as Myung-Sook
- Park Yoon-Kyung as Eun-Ha
- Kim Sung-Tae as Homeroom teacher
- Han Chae-Woo as Athletic teacher
- Kim Jung-young as Young-Eon's mother
References
edit- ^ "Yeogo goedam 4: Moksori (Whispering Corridor 4: Voice)" Archived 2018-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ^ Elley, Derek (August 28, 2005). "Review: Voice". Variety. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ^ "K-FILM REVIEWS: 목소리 (Voice)". Twitch Film. October 22, 2005. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ^ Kim, Kyu Hyun. "Voice". Koreanfilm.org. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ^ "여고괴담부터 소녀괴담까지, 학원 공포물 변천사 | 텐아시아". 4 July 2014. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ Kim, Kyu Hyun (February 9, 2006). "An Interview with Actress Cha Ye-Ryun and Producer Lee Choon-Yeon". Koreanfilm.org. Archived from the original on May 23, 2006. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
External links
edit- Voice at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
- Voice at IMDb
- Voice at HanCinema
- Voice at AllMovie
- Voice at Rotten Tomatoes