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The Eye

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The Eye	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Eye (aka Gin Gwai) is a 2002 East Asian horror film directed by the Pang Brothers, starring Angelica Lee. The film spawned three sequels (also by the Pang brothers), The Eye 2 (2004), The Eye 10, aka The Eye Infinity and sometimes referred to as The Eye 3 (2005) and The Child's Eye (2010). None of the sequels are connected story-wise, but share similar themes. There are three remakes of the first film: Adhu a 2004 Indian version, Naina, a 2005 Indian version (with the Pang Brothers completely uncredited) and The Eye, a 2008 US version starring Jessica Alba.The first film centers around a Hong Kong violinist, Wong Kar Mun, who has been blind from a very young age, undergoing a cornea transplant to help her regain her sight. Although overjoyed at having her sight returned to her, her joy soon turns to terror when she begins to see ghosts, and a mysterious figure, whose presence seems to foretell strange deaths. After a terrifying discovery, she and her doctor's nephew (and her love interest), Dr. Wah, decide to investigate the truth behind these events, and also find out just who she received her new corneas from.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The second film follows the story of Joey (played by Shu Qi), who, after a failed suicide attempt, discovers that she is pregnant. She soon learns that attempting suicide while pregnant has granted her the ability to see ghosts. This, along with her estranged boyfriend's distant behaviour, only serves to make her more miserable, but, when she starts being followed by the spirit of a sinister-looking woman and discovering the ghost's motives, she faces a desperate struggle to save herself and her unborn child.The third film follows the story of five teenagers who read from a book detailing ten different methods for seeing the dead. (Hence, the 10 in the film's title.) They decide to play the book's game, but, once it starts, they must finish it, or forever be haunted by ghosts.
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The Eye / int_118bba4	type	NonindicativeTitle
The Eye / int_118bba4	comment	Non-Indicative Title: The Eye 10 is not the tenth installment of a long-running movie series. It's actually a movie about exploring ten different methods in seeing ghosts. In it's own series, it's only the third installment.
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The Eye / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
The Eye / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: Mun smashes her bedroom mirror after realising that the reflection she sees isn't hers.
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The Eye / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Eye / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Joey is already undergoing one by the time The Eye 2 begins. Mun has one in the first movie, after seeing too many ghosts for her liking: she becomes a recluse, refuses to leave her bedroom, keeps her eyes closed all the time in an attempt to mimick her past blindness and goes back to reading braille, and removes her bedroom lightbulb. She snaps out of it eventually.
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The Eye / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Eye / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Several of the first two movies' big scares are included in the trailers.
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The Eye / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Eye / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The end of one of the trailers for the first film features Mun looking into a mirror and seeing her face as a smooth, blank surface with no facial features whatsoever. This never appears in the movie itself - what Mun actually sees is the face of Ling, the woman she received her corneas from. This is arguably a rare good example of this trope, as it was probably added to the trailer to prevent spoiling the movie's big twist.
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The Eye / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Eye / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: On the road in Bangkok, Mun sees a vision of a tank truck exploding, killing everyone within distance, and tries to warn everyone. Unfortunately, a language barrier prevent her message from getting across.
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The Eye / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
The Eye / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave - The ending of the first movie.
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The Eye / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
The Eye / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Dr. Wah.
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The Eye / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Eye / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up - The ending of the first movie.
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The Eye / int_3c9267d2	type	Flatline
The Eye / int_3c9267d2	comment	Flatline: Happens during the flashbacks revealing that Ying Ying succumbed to her cancer.
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The Eye / int_3cf65c77	type	Unhappy Medium
The Eye / int_3cf65c77	comment	Unhappy Medium: Ling. Her ability to see ghosts and predict future tragedies gave her nothing but hatred and rejection from everyone in her village, who believed her to be causing the deaths herself.
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The Eye / int_40126d90	type	Infant Immortality
The Eye / int_40126d90	comment	Infant Immortality - Averted - repeatedly - in a deeply heartbreaking manner. Surprisingly enough, the second film invokes this: Despite Joey's constant attempts to kill herself by jumping to her death, her baby survives.
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The Eye / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Eye / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The first film: Mun fails to prevent the disaster, everyone in the traffic jam dies, and she loses her eyes. But she's able to move on from it in the end. Arguably the second film as well: Despite her constant attempts to suicide, Joey finally accepts that the spirit following her wants to be reincarnated as her daughter. She even apologizes to her baby when she gives birth to it.
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The Eye / int_42d7e070	type	Face-Revealing Turn
The Eye / int_42d7e070	comment	Face-Revealing Turn - The elevator scene.
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The Eye / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Eye / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: At one point in the second movie, Joey is attacked and knocked out by a rapist, but she is saved by the ghost, who brutally mauls the rapist, leaving his whole body covered in bandages.
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The Eye / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
The Eye / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror
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The Eye / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Eye / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Photo: Mun (Sydney) sees a recently-taken photograph of herself and is shocked to find it does not match the face in the mirror.
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The Eye / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Eye / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The man in the elevator.
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The Eye / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
The Eye / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: The main plot of the second film.
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The Eye / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Eye / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event - The train scene. Just watch the window behind Mun and Wah...
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The Eye / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
The Eye / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence - Mun has several.
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The Eye / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Eye / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Mun spots the spirit of a burning man running through Ling's village, one of the victims of the huge fire that devastated the area several years previously. Later, two screaming, burning men can be seen writhing around in agony in the aftermath of the gas tank explosion. One of them dies on-screen, it is unclear what happens to the other one (his friends are desperately trying to put the flames out).
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The Eye / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
The Eye / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Ying Ying briefly acts as one towards Mun after she passes away, telling her to be strong. After this, Mun begins to accept her newfound ability to see ghosts and is no longer afraid.
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The Eye / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Eye / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: The man in the elevator has the right side of his face completely caved in. In the US remake, the face of the man in the elevator is a bloody, gruesome mess. In The Eye 2, Joey goes a bit crazy and ends up biting off a man's nose. The act is never shown (Joey herself doesn't even realise she's done it until afterwards, as she blacked out during the attack), and the full damage isn't, either, but the man is shown screaming in pain with a blood-soaked bandage over his damaged nose.
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The Eye / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Eye / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The "report card" kid, as well as Ling. Joey tries and fails to kill herself in the second film, more than once. In the same film, Yuen kills herself by jumping in front of a train when she learns of Sam's affair with Joey.
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The Eye / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
The Eye / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper / Psychopomp: A tall, thin, pale-faced man dressed head-to-toe in black often appears to guide the souls of the recently deceased to the other side. He also never appears fully in-focus, always blurred. And, as the ending shows, there's more than one of them... apparently there exists one for every soul.
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The Eye / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The Eye / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Joey. Several times. She overdoses on pills and comes close to death, but is saved when she is taken to hospital and has her stomach pumped. Later, she jumps off a building, and she still survives.
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The Eye / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Eye / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The US remake has everyone in the final scene survive.
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The Eye / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Eye / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers
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The Eye / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Eye / int_91697559	comment	Half The Woman She Used To Be: When the ghost who appears in the calligraphy class launches herself at Mun, her lower half fades away.
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The Eye / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Eye / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the first film, the exorcist called to Mun's apartment block mentions that the souls of those who have commited suicide are doomed to an endless, painful cycle of repeating their own deaths, unless the issues from their lifetime can be resolved. This comes up later when Mun realises how to end the pain of Ling, who killed herself.
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The Eye / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Eye / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Although it is never shown happening, the mere idea of a cornea transplant could be considered an Eye Scream.
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The Eye / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Eye / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Inverted. Early on in the first film, Mun rejected a offer to move to Canada because she doesn’t speak English. Her lack of speaking skills is what prevents the motorists in Bangkok from evacuating before the explosion, since nobody understood her yelling in Cantonese.
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The Eye / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Eye / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Both Mun and Wah get this when the tanker explodes.
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The Eye / int_b7efeb58	type	Magical Defibrillator
The Eye / int_b7efeb58	comment	Magical Defibrillator: Averted.
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The Eye / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
The Eye / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare
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The Eye / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Eye / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The ghost in the calligraphy class does not approve of people sitting in her old chair.
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The Eye / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Eye / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare
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The Eye / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Eye / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: In the second film, Joey desperately attempts to hang herself when she learns that Yuen wishes to be reincarnated in the body of her unborn child. The ghost of Yuen thwarts each and every attempt.
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The Eye / int_c235ac60	type	Ill Girl
The Eye / int_c235ac60	comment	Ill Girl / Littlest Cancer Patient: Ying Ying.
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The Eye / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
The Eye / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: Largely Type A. Subverted in The Eye 2 - at first, it appears as though Yuen, the ghostly woman following Joey around, is a Type B example. As it turns out, she doesn't bear Joey any ill will and instead wishes to be reincarnated.
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The Eye / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Eye / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: A non-physical version happens in the first film, when a frustrated Wah confronts Mun about running away from her ghost problems.
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The Eye / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
The Eye / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: The "report card" kid, as well as Ying Ying.
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The Eye / int_ca720408	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
The Eye / int_ca720408	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Mun orders some food in a café, but, after seeing the ghosts of a mother and baby (who are revealed to be the wife and child of the café's owner), with the mother licking some of the food, she is understandably put off and leaves without touching her food.
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The Eye / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Eye / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: As mentioned above, Wah does this to Mun when she has her Heroic BSoD.
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The Eye / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
The Eye / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: The first two films have no story connections, and nothing in common save for the main character being able to see ghosts; the third ties them together by explaining that there are ten different ways a person may be able to see ghosts, and two of them were depicted in those films.
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The Eye / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
The Eye / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Both Mun and Ling saw great tragedies they failed to prevent, albeit for different reasons:Ling's village refused to heed her warnings about the fire and Cantonese-speaking Mun wasn't able to tell the Thai-speaking motorists about the explosion.
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The Eye / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Eye / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Joey becomes this.
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The Eye / int_e90a93b2	type	Creepy Monotone
The Eye / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: The "report card" kid exclusively talks like this.
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The Eye / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Eye / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child - "Have you seen my report card?"
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