Yeogo goedam II

Plot synopsis:
The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-Eun (Lee Young-jin) and Min Hyo-Shin (Park Ye-jin). As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with the social pressures of having a lover of the same gender, Shi-Eun tries to distance herself from the increasingly dependent Hyo-Shin. Hyo-Shin reacts poorly to Shi-Eun's changed attitude, viewing it as both a betrayal and rejection. Hyo-Shin consequently commits suicide by jumping off of the school roof. It is also heavily implied that she was pregnant at the time of death, the father being literature teacher Mr. Goh.The plot unfurls in a nonlinear fashion, often from the perspective of fellow student Soh Min-Ah (Kim Min-sun). Min-Ah grows increasingly invested in Shi-Eun and Hyo-Shin when she finds a diary kept between the two alienated girls. This diary allows her disturbing insights to the nature of the relationship and pulls her deeper into a strange chain of events around the school. After Hyo-Shin's death, supernatural occurrences start to terrorize all of the students that condemned the relationship. It is later revealed that Hyo-Shin's spirit is malevolently haunting the school through the remnants she left behind in the diary.

Tags: atmospheric, revenge, murder, romantic, flashback

Review:
I saw this movie after having seen the first and third installments (except for a common setting at an all-girl Korean school, the three have no plot connections).
There are some horror elements, but the film is more successful when it focuses instead on character development and on unfurling its back story (largely through flashbacks, which can sometimes confuse the narrative a bit).
The acting is good as a whole, and most of the minor characters seem fully-realized, resulting in a film that has a rich setting behind it.There are some bad sides to Memento Mori.
As another user already stated, there are some similarities (especially atmosphere-wise) to "The Virgin Suicides" and although I liked VS better, "Memento Mori" remains a strong movie.Did it have any flaws?
Fans of the original "Whispering Corridors" will be disappointed to learn that this is a sequel in name only; it shares absolutely no connection with the original movie apart from its title.
The story tells of a girl, Min-ah, who finds a diary kept by two lesbian lover classmates at her boarding school - and soon begins suffering from strange hallucinations whenever she reads from it.
Shortly after, one of the lovers is found dead and it's up to Min-ah to discover whether she killed herself or whether someone murdered her; before her spirit returns to the school for revenge."Memento Mori" is a wonderful movie, but it isn't an out-and-out horror flick as some have suggested.
a school ghost story ridden with teen love and infatuation, and the result is a beautifully crafted dreamlike feature which is a true delight to watch.Acting is phenomenal from all concerned, with the actress playing Min-ah using a wide range of skills to play the different states her character finds herself in to perfection.
The directors do a commendable job, too, even if their choice of camera angles is sometimes confusing - and the storyline occassionally lacks a clear narrative - I haven't enjoyed a Korean movie as much as this for quite some time.Basically, "Memento Mori" is excellent from start to finish and seamlessly blends horror, suspense and romance to create a truly unforgettable feature.
I have not seen the original Yeogo Goedam but i assume it was more of a straight horror.Because of it's genre crossing, Memento Mori adds to the horror theme of Shi-eun's return a sadness and tenderness that coagulates very strangely, but effectively with the terror-filled images of Shi-eun's body on the ground, and her haunting of the school.
With the diary, however, (i know, it's really good), but Kyu-Dong Min actually mentioned that they researched heaps of teenage girls' diaries and many were much more elaborate than the one they made for the film.
Lee Young-Jin showed great control as the living dead girl and Park Yeh-jin arguably holds the whole film's acting performances together, both in terms of performance and narrative.I really like Memento Mori.
Even it falls at some point it still one of the best movie I've ever seen.What I like on the are: the story, of course.
and it's not bad to love a person but not too much.Well, I really recommend this film because it's a very unique and stylish movie.
However, the biggest mistake of this film I found was that it had to follow a big commercial success of Yeogo goedam I, so it turned out as a confusing half-horror or half-romance genre.
Yeogo Goedam II starts out as an interesting story about adolescent love and turns into a nonsensical "horror" film.
The way Hyo-shin and Shi-eun's relationship is revealed to Min-ah through their diary gave me the sense that this film would be far better than it turned out to be (the diary is pretty cool).
I first watch this film at cinema, but it seems like no Philippine release...This is the first Korean movie I've seen.
In a Korean high-school, the teenagers Hyo-Shin Min (Yeh-jin Park) and Shi-Eun Yoo (Young-jin Lee) are lesbian lovers that decide to write a diary together and expose their love to their schoolmates.
Shi-Eun's classmate Min-Ah So (Min-sun Kim) finds and reads their diary, disclosing the innermost secrets of the two lovers, and becomes obsessed for Shi-Eun. When a close friend advises that Min-Ah would die because she was reading the diary of a dead girl, she wants to return the diary to Hyo-Shin."Memento Mori" is an intriguing, tragic and eerie love story, with a confused screenplay.
In the end, this film is a good supernatural romance but not recommended for fans of the traditional horror genre.
It may be incongruous with the nature of the film, but if it were to be shot exactly the same as Whispering Corridors then I would moan.A lonely student at an all-girl Korean school finds a diary out in the schoolyard and is sucked into the world of the soon-to-be dead who has left behind.
The film jumps around in time as the girl reads stories from the diary.
Scare Factor: 3 of 10 Acting: 5 of 10 Story: 5 of 10 Nation of origin: South Korea Viewed on: Tartan Asian Extreme DVD Video Format: Widescreen Audio Format: 5.1 DTS"Memento Mori" is the second of movie in the "Whispering Corridors" trilogy.
It however doesn't spin and twist so much you can't follow it.If you simply accept the fact that "Memento Mori" isn't a movie with any horror value I think you will find it somewhat enjoyable.
Yes, it's another-- at times gory-- high school horror flick, but the difference here are the girls...
Whether good or evil, they are played with a genuineness that sometimes makes you think you're eavesdropping on actual conversations.And while there are definitely some horror clichés, it is, after all, yet another high school horror flick(!), it just feels different this time.
Although the Korean name for Memento Mori would lead you to believe it is a sequel to Whispering Corridors, other than the setting, the two films have very little in common.
The story in Memento Mori involves a love affair between two students at an all-girl's school.
A third girl finds the diary the two girls wrote together and, through its pages, begins a horrifying journey to understand what happened to her classmates and how one of them could end up dead.Regardless of how Memento Mori has been marketed to American audiences, it's not a horror movie.
Memento Mori moves slow and allows you to get to know the characters, their fears, their problems, and to really develop a sense of caring for them.I haven't rated the movie any higher because this type of film and this subject matter don't appeal to me on an entertainment level regardless of how well made the film is.
And the acting is rock solid.One question that has bothered me after having recently watched both Whispering Corridors and Memento Mori is: Do teachers in Korea really treat their students in the manner presented here, with physical and emotional abuse?
The "Whispering Corridors" films are pretty much just sequels in name & theme only, with a high school setting - including the school girls - as the main reoccurring elements.
"Memento Mori" is a mixture of drama, lesbian romance and a bit of ghostly horror.
Some characters are also acting in a weird and not quite credible way and the ending of the movie crowns this hazardous development.If you want to see a realistic and visionary school drama, this flick may be partly interesting for you but doesn't go profound enough to truly convince.
High school love stories are fraught with difficulty, especially when depicted on camera, and even more so when the couple in question are involved in a same sex relationship, as shown in this suspenseful thriller, that, despite a couple of brilliantly unpredicted scares, works best as a character drama, much like its prequel, Whispering Corridors, though the two are completely unrelated.Min-ah (Gyu-ri Kim), a cheerful high school student, discovers a diary which illustrates the relationship between two of her fellow students, Shi-eun (Yeong-jin Lee) and Hyo-shin (Yeh-jin Park), which transitions from a contemporary friendship, to a complicated romance.
Much like a car crash, Min-ah is unable to keep her eyes from the two young ladies, the diary being far from beautiful, proving to be as sad as it is sometimes disturbing, which reflects the tone of the feature.After one of the lovers commits suicide, the entire school is affected by not only the emotional turmoil of such an incident, but the ramifications that come after, as bizarre, haunting occurrences begin to dominate the school.
To articulate any further about the plot would be telling, Memento Mori been one of those films where every scene is pivotal to the understanding of the feature, potentially requiring more than one view to comprehend segments of the plot, though unanswered questions will continue to prevail.Unlike the original, the second film in the Whispering Corridors franchise is not in chronological order, rather, past and present are simultaneously conveyed, the beginning portions of the film on initial viewing appearing to blur together, before viewers inevitably become accustomed to the story's unique portrayal.
Though the movie feels complete, viewing the special features provides the audience with the knowledge that several scenes were cut, and had they been included, the film's impact would have remained unchanged, but the many complexity's might have been more thoroughly understood.Like Whispering Corridors, viewers are able to provide their own answers to the many questions that remain, the filmmakers laying the foundations for a story that continues long after the credits have rolled.
Half an hour after watching the feature I became quite sad after continuing to contemplate much of the film and character decisions, which impact the audience for a long while afterwards.Intelligent, beautiful and poignant, Memento Mori is every bit as unique and fascinating as Whispering Corridors.
Although on most occasions the movie is not in your face terrifying, the story feels like a rite of passage that anyone of any age should view, in order to understand the complexities of an adolescent mind, the teenage girls of the feature inevitably forging paths that will lead them into adulthood..
MEMENTO MORI is a South Korean ghost story and follow-up to the similar WHISPERING CORRIDORS, although the two films are unconnected in terms of plot.
While watching MEMENTO MORI, it soon becomes apparent that this is an extremely atypical horror film: it's more of a touching, tragic love story between two lesbian school friends rather than anything else.
Almost the first hr of this movie has hardly no scary or even creepy scenes, just two lesbian girls doing stuff and one girl who finds the diary investigating.
It starts out as a drama about being lesbian at high-school level and ends up as a "horror" in which the students and in particular the lesbian partner who she felt let down by feels the wrath of the dead.
I love the story,the actresses and everything!!!I think this film is scary and cool.This is one of the best movie I've ever watched.
Even though,others didn't like the story...well..who cares!The important thing is I and my friends enjoyed this movie.That's why I would like to congratulate all the casts and the creators...Actually,its been years since this movie was released in the Philippines.I JUST LOVE IT!!!More power to all of you guys!!I Like Yeh-jin Park,Young-jin Lee and Min-sun Kim!!You are all awesome guys!!I like the way they act their characters and all.It seems real!!God bless TO ALL!!!.
Unlike the first Yeogo Goedam, this time I managed to follow the plot and the characters, although I still found it quite difficult to differentiate the characters (for someone like me who doesn't meet Asian looking people in their lives - their appearances look similar and their names sound similar).Whispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori is a film I've heard and read was great and highly recommended, and maybe that's why I was slightly disappointed.
Good Drama, sometimes great - but Drama nonetheless, and I'm not such a Drama fan, especially not when I set out to watch a scary film.Memento Mori's absolute best scene was the poem/speech in the very beginning.
From then on - like I said, a slight disappointment.The relationship described between Hyo-shin and Shi-eun takes the audience through all the emotional spectrum one can imagine, but when it comes to moments of bone-chilling fear I've learnt to expect from Asian horror films - it fails to deliver.
True, there is a ghost involved, but nothing like The Grudge or The Ring, or even the newer slightly less frightening films like Alone.All in all, I think I've learnt that Korean Horror simply isn't my style, and am probably not going to continue watching the Yeogo Goedam series.
Objectively - you might enjoy this film, if you like to combine Drama with not so scary Horror.
"Memento Mori" is not a horror movie.
I might have given "Memento Mori" a score of 10 except for the fact that the climax contains a cheesy bit of film making that, had this been an American movie, would have made me scream out in anguish!
Much more interested in the relationship between two schoolgirls than being a true ghost story (though it is that to at the behest of the Producer) This Korean film has to do with a mysterious diary that has been found by one of the students detailing the developing lesbian relationship between the two girls, which is handled extremely well and brought to mind Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures" in a way.
The ghost that appears in the second half haunts and assaults the ONLY NICE GIRL in the whole movie and completely IGNORES the characters that needs to be brought down a notch -- like the cruel classmates (God knows there's plenty of them) that picks on and abuses the main characters (and the ghost before she dies), as well as a teacher who slaps one of the girls so hard she bled.
Memento Mori is apparently a sequel to Whispering Corridors, which was a reasonably enjoyable Asian ghost story set in an all girl's school, but although the location may be the same, the characters and events are totally unrelated (so there's no need to bother seeing the original film first if you haven't already).Unrequited Sapphic schoolgirl lust, suicide, and a scorned spook are the order of the day, all of which sounds like a recipe for some serious fun, but the manner in which Memento Mori is executed is so messy that confusion and then boredom are the inevitable outcome.The film begins with schoolgirl Min-Ah finding a diary written by two of her classmates, who are one step away from rubbing rug.
As Min-Ah delves deeper into the girls' private scribblings and learns more of their relationship, things begin to get really weird and completely unfathomable, a fractured time-line that whips erratically between events past and present not exactly helping matters.Other reviewers here on IMDb found the film subtle, surreal, and touching; I would add 'totally boring'..
Young lesbians at Korean high school for girls have a rough go of it.
The movie takes a very long time to get rolling, it's about 40 minutes into the film before we get some idea of where the heck it's going.
Memento Mori, aka Yeogo Goedam II, is an in-name-only sequel to a film by the English title, Whispering Corridors.
Although this film bears no real connection to the first, they share a common theme of supernatural happenings in a girls' school.
In my opinion, Memento Mori far exceeds the enjoyable Whispering Corridors.A high school girl named Min-ah finds a very elaborate and colorful diary belonging to two of her classmates.
Somebody should make a movie about what the boys were doing while all of this was going on...I was pretty impressed by all of this, because I have never seen a film portraying "that day" in any genre before.
So the coolest thing about this horror movie is not that it is particularly scary, but for portraying "that day" of pointless humiliation...did you ever stop to wonder why the school even needed this information?
It's very easy to see why Min-ah would take the diary in the first place, and why she would continue reading even after her visions began.The horror doesn't really get started until the second half, but the buildup is very effective.
And if more horror movies used character like this, Memento Mori wouldn't feel so unfamiliar..
The relationships between the girls were interesting but then the film changed direction so often it was hard to follow the individual stories.
so if you like the weak, cliché riddled American horror films that disgusts more then scare, you waisted your time reading this.
ha ha ha,but if you like a good story and a "mess with your head" type film Memento Mori is perfect for you,so,buy it buy it buy it!!!
Hyo-shin(Yeh-jin Park) and Shi-eun(Young-jin Lee)are a teenage lesbian couple who share a unique diary portraying their growing relationship which is found by Min-ah(Min-sun Kim).
Min-ah wishes to return the diary to Hyo-shin if it will stop the carnage.This is, in actuality, a painful lesbian drama with the horror elements only further telling the story.
Memento Mori is actually a pretty basic ghost story built on guilt and grief, but transcends the genre through digital video techniques and a lot of creepy ambiance.It's set in a girls school where hormones run rampant and can barely be contained within the walls.
Two girls, Hyo-shin and Shi-eun, spark a friendship and then a relationship, writing it all down in a shared diary that is later found by Min-ah.
After Hyo-shin kills herself, though, things go quickly awry, and figuring out what is going on is put secondary to the emotional trials the girls have to go through, both individually and as a school.Now not everything in this movie works, but the whole is definitely better than the sum of its separate parts.