The Phone (2002)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Phone |
| Original title | Phone ( 폰 ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ahn Byeong-ki |
| script | Ahn Byeong-ki |
| production | Ahn Byeong-ki |
| music | Lee Sang-ho |
| camera | Mun Yong-sik |
| cut | Park Soon-duk |
| occupation | |
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The Phone is a horror film by the South Korean film director Ahn Byeong-ki from 2002. The main role is played by Ha Ji-won . The film is about a cell phone number whose owner dies or disappears.
action
After the journalist Seo Ji-won is exposed to a pedophilia scandal, she receives calls from a stalker. As a result, she changes her cell phone number. She is also invited by her close friend Ho-jeong and her husband Chang-hoon to Bangbae-dong, where they own a vacant house next door. When Ho-jeong's daughter Yeong-ju suddenly takes a call on Ji-won's cell phone, she starts screaming and starts acting strangely. She shows strong affection for her father. Doctors say she is still developing normally and that such feelings are not uncommon at that age.
Meanwhile, Ji-won sees a ghost playing Beethoven's moonlight sonata . Ji-won continues to receive calls and suspects the stalker. However, he could not know the number. So she searches for information about the number that ends in 6644. She finds out that the two previous owners of the number both died. Before that, a girl had this number. However, she disappeared. Through her further investigation, she finds out that a school girl named Jin-hee had this number. Through her classmates, she learns that she was madly in love with someone, that no one knew the person and that at some point Jin-hee ignored the person, ignored her calls, etc.
She finds Jin-hee's diary and learns that she was in love with Chang-hoon. Ho-jeong found out that his husband was having an affair and confronted Jin-hee. Jin-hee said that she would never leave him. She is also pregnant. This worried Ho-jeong since she is sterile herself and could only have her child through egg donation from Ji-won. In the fight, Ho-jeong accidentally pushed Jin-hee down the stairs, who died. She walled the corpse into the wall.
When Ji-won confronts Chang-hoon, she also finds the body. But then Ho-jeong appears. She kills Chang-hoon and kills Ji-won with a stun gun. She wants to make it look like Chang-hoon committed suicide because of the affair. She and Ji-won want to burn Jin-hee's body. But suddenly Jin-hee's spirit awakens and takes revenge on Ho-jeong, thereby saving Ji-won.
reception
The Phone opened in South Korean theaters on July 26, 2002. BBC's Jamie Russell gave the film 3 stars out of 5.
Web links
- The Phone in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The Phone in the online film database
- The Phone in theKorean Movie Database(English)
- The Phone on HanCinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jamie Russell: Phone (2004). In: BBC . July 10, 2004, accessed August 9, 2020 .