Beullaindeu - 2011

I'm still crying; gosh, that guy was one of the worst bastards I've seen. The movie is good, the story and the actors are too; I'd say the actress that Played Soo-ah was good, I mean one of the best performances of a blind person I've ever seen (well, talking as one who knows nothing of the condition personally). The interesting story: police cadet Soo-ah has a car accident, her orphanage-brother dies and she becomes blind. In the city there's someone who abducts, tortures and then kills women. A rainy night she's alone waiting for a taxi when a car stops. While driving, the man at the wheel runs someone over but tells her it was a dog. She doubts it, so he leaves her there and drives away because another car is approaching. She tells the police she's sure it was a girl, not a dog. A messy cop listens to her story. A kid comes forward saying it was not a taxi, but a foreign car, but he also adds details he clearly made up so they don't believe him. The cop searches all the taxi-drivers to find the right one, until he and Soo-ah realize it was not a taxi after all (from the noise when you open the windows..). The kid was right, so they go to him, only to find an ambulance there. The killer got to him first, and hit him on the head, but the doctor will say that he has a hard skull and in relatively good health.
Soo-ah now feels the others were right all along, she's no help being blind. At home the killer phones her, scaring her, and she rushes to the hospital, to tell the kid to stay there because the murderer's watching them. He doesn't care about her and leaves, but when he sees her on a train, followed by the man he saw that night in the foreign car, he's scared for her.  Luckily he had an excellent memory for the faces and everything, I did not recognize him first time I saw him without glasses, they changed a lot his appearance, actually they looked good on him, better with than without.
He calls her (she had called him from the car, so he had the number. The cop had given her his) telling her he'll make a video call, so she moved the phone around and the kid saw the killer in front of her. She got out as soon as she could but he followed her. The kid told her where to go, seeing through the camera where she was, but the killer got to her. She managed to spray him and run ahead, following the kid's instructions, to the lift that will take her out, to the surface; she's in, she presses the button but he gets there in time. He's about to kill her when her guide dog, and adorable labrador , saves her by hanging on to his clothes and drawing him out of the lift, away from her. It was the hardest scene of all, because we see him actually stabbing the poor dog repeatedly, but the dog left him only when he was out, and then died. That was painful.
When the doors were closed, the lift went up and people saw her and she was brought to the hospital; when she woke up she asked about her dog, and cried desperately after learning about its death. The kid is sorry for her; the police have now all the details both him and her remembers, and slowly they find the right name, but only too late to save the cop who, despite the silly appearance, was a good cop and stayed at it until he found him, but the bad guy killed him. It was a strange scene, maybe the cop hesitated in disturbing him because he was a doctor? Even when he was convinced he had found the murderer, he was so hesitant and kind, why wasn't he more... anyway, he wasn't, and he was caught off guard, and they fought but the doctor had a scalpel with him, so it was not a fair fight. The cop would have won, but the bad guy slid his throat with it.
Soo-ah and the kid are together at the orphanage, now alone, when the killer comes, kills the cop guarding (more or less) the place and goes after them. He was most of all determined to get her, more than him, which was not logic because it was him who had seen his face, but the reason is probably that she was a girl, and the scum liked, took pleasure in hurting women. The three of them fight a lot, it was a captivating fight, the kid took a lot of beating, but still made it out alive in the end. She used all she could, switching off the lights in the place, and using her special device to know when he was near her, so she could hit him with a brick; it was very well done, you know, really tough story but very well done movie. It ends with a smile, showing that a year later she's back at the police academy and the kid is about to do the same. He convinced her that there are things she can do, that she can help even without sight, that she could do it from an office, as a sort of profiler maybe, or something like that. The cop had told her the same thing, poor guy.

In Italy: Blind