見鬼 (The eye) - 2002

I liked it enough; it’s not exactly terrifying, though, no, but it’s interesting. 

Mun is a blind girl who undergoes an operation to be able to see again; she wakes up with new eyes from an unknown donor. In hospital she meets young YingYing, a sweet child. Mun doesn’t see clearly at first, only vague shapes, but it’s a lot to process for her brain since she’s been blind since the age of two. He lives in Hong Kong and was a violinists in a small orchestra, but she can’t play with them now because she’s not blind anymore..

She starts seeing strange things she doesn’t yet understand, it looks as if she can see ghosts. Mun talks to these visions, and when her grandma sees her talking to herself she calls someone to exorcize the house. 

At her neighbour’s house, a child committed suicide; Mun keeps seeing him asking for his report card, and at first she talked to him, trying to help, but then she’s told about his story.

At calligraphy lesson, she is attacked by a ghost and scared.  At a diner, she sees a woman and a child licking the meat, and the waitress tells her about them. Out in the street, a running child passes thru her, so they both understand that he just died, hit by a car. Mun sees a black figure taking him away. She tells her therapist that a black shadow comes to take away the dead... and now that she knows what she’s been seeing lately she’s very scared, doesn’t want to see them: a half-face man in the elevator, that same boy jumping off the window... She faints while playing some music, and at the hospital she sees a black shadow taking away YingYing, so it’s no surprise to her when she’s told that the little girl died. Mun starts to deal with it because she has no choice, and at least she can see the people she loves, but when she looks at the picture taken with YingYing, she’s upset more than ever because she realises that when she looks in the mirror she sees someone else’s face. Her therapist is falling for her and wants to help her, so he investigates the identity of the eye-donor, and finds out it was a Chinese woman in Thailand. They go together looking for answers. She already saw that hospital in her visions, but at first the doctor there tries to send them away, until Mun cries out that she has her eyes and therefore she now sees what she saw. He knows what she’s talking about, he knows that the eye-donor, Ling, could see things before time, but because of this everybody hated her, they called her a witch, they threw things at her, didn’t want her around. Ling had tried to warn people of a great fire but they had sent her away. The next day, a fire killed a lot of people. The day after that, Ling hanged herself. Ling’s mother had always tried to protect her and be with her, and has a hard time forgiving what she did, accepting that she gave up and left her, but Ling finally gets the forgiveness she longed for, borrowing Mun’s body. 

Now Mun can see her face, and she goes back home. There’s a traffic jam, and she starts seeing many black shadows, really a lot, and she understands that something terrible is about to happen, just as it happened to Ling, and like Ling she also tries to warn people, she starts running and screaming for people to run away, but nobody believes her, everybody thinks she’s crazy and instead of running away they lock the car doors..

There’s a big big explosion, a lot of people die. Her therapist, who saw her running, throws her down. All cars around are in flames, there are many burnt bodies. 

She couldn’t save anyone, exactly like Ling.

The epilogue can be seen as a lighter note or a sad one, depending how you look at it. Because of the explosion Mun is blind again, but at least she can’t see death anymore, and she has her loving therapist with her now...