Memento Mori | Yeogo Goedam 2 | Whispering Corridors 2

korean. the second sequel to Whispering Corridors. although this movie is in a very confused state as to what it really wants to be, makikipag-away ako para dito sa palabas na to. lets find out why...

the story begins with the making of a special shared-diary by a student, Min Hyo-Shin [PARK Yeh-Jin] to jot down her romance with a fellow student Yoo Shi-Eun [Lee Young-Jin]. they fill the diary with pictures, flowers, poems, drawings and other hand-crafted stuff but along with it are the weird ritual spells and items that Hyo-Shin incanted. ang kyoot nung diary nila. nainggit nga ako eh kaya eto, ginaya ko sila. nagpa-book bind ako ng bond papers! hehe...

Eion. Hyo-shin is the brunt of psychological as well as physical torture of the bullies kahit na talented sya na pianist and composer. si Shi-Eun naman ay quiet but very athletic girl. although she is also an outcast, she wasnt treated like Hyo-Shin. she's mostly regarded more with mistrust and suspicions than out and out hatred. Id say, their characters screams for more exploration. isa pa sa mga main characters ay si So Min-Ah [Kim Min-Sun]. she's the one who took the diary which was left lying on top of a wall where she washed her face that morning. till now im still wondering how the diary got there... hmmm...

she seemed to also have a crush on Shi-Eun [well, gwapo talaga ang pare ko eh], shes predictably curious about the contents of the diary and the secret relationship that seemed to have ended badly as the two girls are avoiding each other. somewhere along the story, Shi-Eun and Hyo-Shin reconcilled. they had a conflict because Hyo-Shin WENT OUT with their male teacher, Mr.Goh. I repeat, they didnt break up because Hyo-Shin is pregnant. Hyo-Shin was never pregnant. after making up, Hyo-Shin showed Shi-Eun the 'antidote'.

one day, while the whole school was scheduled to have their physical check-up, after social pressure from both the teachers and students after they did their public announcement of their relationship by letting one of their teachers read their diary infront of the class and of course their public kiss and the rumor that spread out the school that Hyo-Shin is pregnant by Mr.Goh, Shi-Eun and Hyo-Shin goes up their secret hide out [which happens to be on the rooftop] and Shi-Eun breaks up with her.

-> mejo may loop thing nga lang to sa isip ko kasi it could be that that particular scene happened way back before. maybe its after the public kiss... kasi if you watch it closely, shi-eun is wearing different clothes. heeeeniweeeiiiii...

at this point, the 'ka-on' story fades away but doesnt really disappear. strange things begins to happen... and the rest is for you to watch. hek hek...

ang prublema sa Memento Mori mashadong maraming issues na hina-handle. first of course is yung love story nung dalawang mag-on na sobrang naiwan sa ere nung dumating yung curse moment. if Memento Mori focused more on the girl to girl relationship, this movie wouldve been beautiful. the scare effect is something hard to feel in this movie because of the heavy emotions of the lovers.

this was a controversial movie in korea as it tackles the taboo subject, homosexuality. dahil din dito a lot of the scenes were taken out like the one where the two girls were bathing. nakakainis nga kasi hindi ko alam kung makaka-hanap pa ko ng copy nito na uncut version... pero wag naman nating isipin na ganon ko kagustong makita yung bathing scene nila... hehe.