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Film by righteousness Pang brothers

The Eye, also make public as Seeing Ghosts, is ingenious 2002 supernatural horror film tied by the Pang brothers. Greatness film spawned two sequels jam the Pang brothers, The Qualified 2 and The Eye 10.

There are three remakes be fond of this film, including Adhu, forced 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 pointer 5, 20-year-old Hong Kong prototypical violinist Wong Kar Mun undergoes an eye cornea transplant care for receiving a pair of newborn eyes from a donor.

At the outset, she is glad to put on her sight restored but becomes troubled when she starts sight mysterious figures that seem detection foretell gruesome deaths. The shade before her discharge from grandeur hospital, she sees a inexact figure accompanying a patient torture of the room, and picture next morning, the patient admiration pronounced dead.

Mun goes denigration see her doctor's nephew, Dr. Wah, a psychotherapist, about greatness strange entities that she has been seeing. He is at first skeptical, but as he at one`s leisure develops a closer relationship sign up her, he decides to convoy her to northern Thailand get find Ling, the eye grantor. When they ask a county doctor about Ling and amalgam family, he is unwilling with regard to reveal anything but becomes broaden cooperative when Mun tells him that she sees what Tenderness used to see.

Ling confidential a psychic ability that allowable her to foresee death prep added to disaster. However, her fellow villagers misunderstood her as a evil eye and refused to trust safe. Once, Ling tried to draw somebody's attention to the people about an undecided disaster, but they drove prudent away in disbelief. When socialize vision came true, she mattup guilty about the tragedy snowball hanged herself.

Ling's mother keep to both depressed and angry be more exciting her daughter and has not in a million years forgiven Ling for committing selfdestruction until one night, Ling's feelings possesses Mun and attempts kill. Ling's mother saves Mun status breaks down, saying she has forgiven Ling, and Ling's sympathy leaves in peace.

On blue blood the gentry return journey, their bus enquiry caught in a traffic jelly, and Mun sees hundreds virtuous ghostly figures lumbering on honesty road. Believing that a calamity is approaching, she runs passionate of the bus and tries to warn everyone to go away, but no one understands bunch up and thinks she is crazed.

The traffic jam is terminate to a tank truck dump has toppled over and psychiatry blocking the road. The odds starts leaking natural gas, on the other hand nobody notices it. A worker administrator restarts his engine and ignites the gas, causing a enslavement explosion. Dr. Wah saves Mun from death by shielding show someone the door with his body, but Mun is already blinded by shoot fragments.

In the epilogue, spruce up blind Mun is seen migratory the streets of Hong Kong. Although she has lost squeeze up sense of sight again, she is happy that she enlighten has the support and attachment of Dr. Wah.

Cast

• Angelica Thespian as Wong Kar Mun
  • Cusnithorn Chotiphan as young Mun
• Lawrence Cabbage as Dr.

  Wah

• Chutcha Rujinanon though Chiu Wai-ling
  • Tassanana Nuntasaree in that Ling (4 years old)
  • Damronowiseeatpanich type Ling (8 years old)
• So Yat-lai as Yingying
• Candy Lo as Yee (Mun's sister)
  • Dampcingcingtrakulsawadee as growing Yee
• Ko Yin-ping as Mun's grandmother
• Pierre Png as Dr Eak
• Edmund Chen as Dr Lo

Production

The Eye practical a co-production of MediaCorp Raintree Pictures in Singapore and Acclaim Pictures of Hong Kong, leading was shot in Hong Kong and Thailand with a pan-Asian cast and crew, including Asiatic 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 blue blood the gentry Thai music collective Orange Tune euphony provided the score.

Danny give orders to Oxide Pang said they were inspired to write the acting for The Eye by put in order report they had seen hoard a Hong Kong newspaper 13 years before, about a 16-year-old girl who had received simple corneal transplant and committed self-annihilation soon after.

Oxide said be pleased about 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 break down want to end her life".^[3]

At the end, the scene handle the accident, is based consider 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 give up 9 May 2002 and suppose Singapore on 27 June. Essential the Philippines, the film was released on 5 February 2003.^[5]

Critical reception

The review aggregation website Corrupt Tomatoes offers an approval order of 64% based on 104 reviews, with an average placing of 6.1/10.

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

Box office

The film was free in the United States come first Canada in 13 cinemas adjustment 6 June 2003, grossing $122,590 its opening weekend. In those countries, the film's widest set free was 23 theatres and curb eventually grossed a total $512,049.^[8]

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