導演：金知云
主演：廉晶雅 林秀晶 文根英
類型：驚悚/劇情/恐怖/懸疑
上映日期：2003年6月13日 韓國
推薦指數：★★★★
劇情介紹
在偏僻郊外的一幢古怪的別墅里，住著薔花、紅蓮一家人。在父親與繼母認識后的某日，母親在衣柜里自縊身亡，姐妹倆承受不了著沉重的打擊，雙雙住進了精神病院，不久兩人從醫院回家，但性格依然極度憂郁，時時刻刻形影不離。回到家中，怪事接連不斷的發生，妹妹紅蓮在夜晚看見了母親的鬼魂，繼母的愛鳥中毒而死……姐妹倆和年輕貌美的繼母之間的仇恨錯綜復雜的展開了。直到有一天，外出的父親回到家中，而兩姐妹卻發覺繼母的房間滲出大片的血漬，在一個染滿血跡的大麻袋里，似乎還裝著一個被肢解的尸體……
推薦理由
從導演金知云的《三更之回憶》，就可以看出他對驚悚片種的處理別具一格，從鬼魂的角度為視點出發，再帶出整件事的來龍去脈，《薔花，紅蓮》的靈感源自薔花與紅蓮的古老傳說，金知云以一種雙重的敘事結構來講述了這個恐怖的故事。
除了在劇情上，兩個敘事線在燈光及顏色上亦有很大的對比，金知云在這里用了巧妙的設計，令觀眾可清楚看到兩條故事線發展，在一個帶有濃厚死亡色彩的家庭，加上事先張揚的恐怖布局，金知云戲中的高潮就是要解開一切他之前所計劃好的謎團，最后當然送給觀眾一個意想不到的結局。
Plot summary
A Tale of Two Sisters (literally 'Rose Flower, Red Lotus') is a 2003 South Korean psychological horror film by Kim Ji-woon. The film is inspired by a Joseon Dynasty folktale entitled "Janghwa Hongreyon-jon", which has been adapted to film several times.
A Tale of Two Sisters won Best Picture at the 2004 International Fantasy Film Awards (Fantasporto). It is both the highest-grossing Korean horror film and the first to be screened in American theatres. It grossed $72,541 in the US.[1] An American remake called The Uninvited starring Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel as the sisters opened in 2009.
The film begins with a girl named Su-Mi being brought to a psychiatrist by a nurse. The girl remains unresponsive despite the psychiatrist's questioning, until he shows her a picture of her and her family. Su-Mi is eventually brought home by her father (Moo-Hyeon) along with her timid sister, Su-Yeong, where they are met by their difficult stepmother (Eun-Joo).
That night Su-Yeong awakens from her sleep to find somebody entering her room and she flees to her sister's room in terror. Su-Mi promises Su-Yeong that she will always be there for her, and they fall asleep.
Su-Mi awakens after a nightmare to find that she and Su-Yeong have begun their period, as has her stepmother, on the very same day. The girls look at some old photos, which reveal that Eun-Joo was a doctor that was a coworker of their father. Su-Mi sees bruises on Su-Yeong's arms and accuses Eun-Joo.
At dinner with guests—Sun-Kyu (Eun-Joo's brother) and his wife—Eun-Joo acts strangely. During dinner, Sun-Kyu's wife begins to choke and convulse on the floor.
Eun-Joo insists that strange events have become frequent since Su-Mi and Su-Yeong returned. Her suspicions are only intensified after her pet bird is slain and found in Su-Yeong's bed. She goes into a rage and locks Su-Yeong in the wardrobe, and after Su-Yeong is freed the father asks Su-Mi why she is making trouble. She insists that the stepmother harasses Su-Yeong, locking her in the closet, her father informs her that Su-Yeong is dead, and that she is not getting better. Su-Mi wakes to find her sister missing and believes she sees her stepmother dragging around a bloody bag through the corridors of the house, and beating it. Su-Mi runs to the kitchen to get a knife to free her sister, but Eun-Joo attempts to stop her by splashing boiling water from the kettle onto her. A fight ensues and Su-Mi is rendered unconscious and dragged away.
The father returns home, having left earlier, to find an injured Su-Mi, however all evidence is suspiciously gone as are the stepmother and bag. The scene shifts, Su-Mi is now the stepmother. She looks up in surprise, and the camera rotates to show the real stepmother, standing in the door way, looking sympathetic. When the camera turns around again, Su-Mi is back where she was. She takes the pills.
It is revealed, that all along Su-Yeong really has been dead, and Su-Mi was acting as the stepmother and sister, a severe multiple personality disorder. She was the one at dinner, she was hugging herself that night she had the nightmare and she was beating the bag (which had a bloodied doll in it).
Flashes back to a time when Eun-Joo was a live-in nurse caring for the girls' sick mother. The girls sense that Eun-Joo and their father are flirting. Su-Mi displays her disapproval toward Eun-Joo, who in-turn takes it out on Su-Yeong. The flashback ends, and the stepmother sits alone in the quiet home. A noise comes from Su-Yeong's room. When she investigates, the wardrobe opens and from it crawls the ghost, presumably of either Su-Yeong or her mother. The scene end ambiguously with a scream.
The flashback picks up again from when Su-Yeong had fallen asleep, with her waking up and discovering that her mother has hanged herself in her wardrobe. She shakes the body, screaming, and accidentally pulls the wardrobe down on top of herself.
Various people in the house hear the bang but only Eun-Joo (the nurse and future stepmother) goes to investigate. She discovers Su-Yeong screaming for help and attempting to claw at the wardrobe. Eun-Joo leaves rather than helping Su-Yeong, but then changes her mind and heads back for the scene. En route, she passes Su-Mi coming out of her room to investigate the noise. The sight of Eun-Joo angers Su-Mi. She forgets about the noise and starts disparaging Eun-Joo, who responds by not mentioning Su-Yeong's plight to Su-Mi, and tells the hostile Su-Mi that she will regret the moment. Su-mi angrily marches out of the house, passing her father who comes back to investigate the noise. The father assumes that the noise was Su-Mi's and does not enter the house.
The scene switches back to Su-Yeong crying out for Su-Mi's help. Outside the house Su-Mi turns back long enough to exchange angry stares with her stepmother on the balcony. The stepmother goes inside and Su-Mi turns once more from the house. The film ends as Su-Mi walks away from the house unaware of her dead mother and dying sister.
(Source: wikipedia.org，英語點津Julie編輯）
