PHONE, 2002
Movie Review

A journalist publishes an article exposing paedophilia, starts getting harassing phone calls from a stalker, changes her number, but finds that strange phone calls continue and there may be a dark past to the number attached to the new cell. Her investigation leads her to uncover the paranormal story of Jin-Hie.

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REVIEW:

It’s easy to categorise all eastern horrors as the same, but this Korean offering is different from its more infamous Japanese counterparts. There’s still a good thread of otherworldly activity and a sense that there is a strong link between the real world and whatever ‘other’ world might exist. Whereas J-Horror is often set in a bleak urban world, most notably in Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water, here though the style feels a lot more exuberant. And when you consider Korea’s most famous cinematic export is director Park Chan Wook (Old Boy, I’m a Cyborg but That’s Okay) then it’s clear Korean cinema has a thirst for the kind of intense artistry where colours are sharp and lighting is brightly contrasting.

Pon, is about journalist, Ji-won, who publishes a controversial series of articles about paedophilia. In the wake of these articles, Ji-won starts to receive dodgy phone calls and soon a stalker begins to harass her. To combat this she does a couple of things. The first is to take up the offer of seclusion at her friends’ house and change her phone. These two instances further the narrative on two paths. Having changed her number Ji-won still receives strange phone calls. The first of which is answered by her friends’ daughter, Young-su. The incident frightens the girl but more mysteriously affects her bahviour afterwards. She soon develops strong, obscene feelings for her father and rejects her mother as more of a love foe.

Ji-won meanwhile begins to investigate these anonymous phone calls and soon finds out that there is a dark history in the umber she has been assigned to. In a rather far fetching genre cliché, it appears the number itself is cursed. The last two owners of the number both died mysteriously, and when she tracks back to the original owner she becomes embroiled in the story of Jin-hee. Jin-Hee was a school girl who it turns out was caught up in an unhealthy obsession with an older man, and Ji-won embarks to discover exactly what happened to her and hopefully lay this curse to rest.

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