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The Hypnotized

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The Hypnotized	comment	The Hypnotized (aka Faceless Beauty) is a 2004 film from South Korea directed by Kim In-shik.The story opens with Ji-soo (Kim Hye-soo—Hyena, Signal), a would-be writer who is mentally ill, afflicted with borderline personality disorder. A Bath Suicide attempt gets Ji-soo committed to a mental hospital. Her psychiatrist, Seok-won, himself has personal demons that lead to him quitting the hospital. Right before Seok-won leaves the hospital for private practice, Ji-soo checks herself out, against Seok-won's advice.Cut forward a year, and Ji-soo really isn't very much better. Her mental state is not helped by the fact that her husband Min-seok is cheating on her. Ji-soo has a meltdown in a grocery store where Seok-won just happens to be shopping. He helps her calm down, and pretty soon, he is again treating her. While acting as her therapist, Seok-won becomes obsessed with her, and eventually starts taking sexual advantage of her while she is hypnotized.
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The Hypnotized / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Hypnotized / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Seok-won has a set of novelty stairs to his office, which play musical tones when someone steps on them. At the climax of the film, the steps sound their musical tones with no one on them, revealing that the ghost of Ji-soo appeared to drive Seok-won off the balcony to his death.
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The Hypnotized / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
The Hypnotized / int_3dfdc686	comment	Time Passes Montage: Seok-won's private practice is shown by a montage of various patients. One is a woman who hates "the whole human race," a man suffering severe memory issues, and a creepy young guy who took illicit photos of a girl he likes.
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The Hypnotized / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Hypnotized / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: A somewhat random scene at the end of the credits shows Min-seok, his face full of grief after his wife's death, walking down a hallway.
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The Hypnotized / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Hypnotized / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ji-soo dies when she has a car accident while driving to meet Seok-won, after he used his hypnotic trigger phrase to summon her. Seok-won at least gets his just deserts, falling off a balcony to his death, but Min-seok is left alone and broken-hearted.
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The Hypnotized / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Hypnotized / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: A flashback sequence shows what happened with Seok-won and his wife. She was an anesthesiologist in the same hospital where he worked. She made some kind of error with the anesthesia and left the patient in an irreversible coma, which is why both she and Seok-won quit their jobs. Soon after she descended into drug addiction and died of overdose. Another flashback sequence shows Ji-soo's romance with the love of her life, Jang-seo. Scenes of passionate lovemaking and a scene of her cheering him on at a skiing event end with him leaving her, for no particular reason.
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The Hypnotized / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Hypnotized / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: A subplot involves another patient at the mental hospital, a young woman named Su-yeon, who claims that her stepfather has been sexually abusing her—and that she likes it. Her parents when they are called in dismiss this, and also her "stepfather" says that he's her actual father. The truth is not revealed, but when he comes back to the hospital a year later Seok-won is disturbed to find Su-yeon still a patient there.
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The Hypnotized / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Hypnotized / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: One year goes by between the opening sequence, where Ji-soo is hospitalized and Seok-won meets her in the hospital, and when he sees her again in a grocery store. She isn't improved.
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The Hypnotized / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
The Hypnotized / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: In a flashback Ji-soo and her old lover Jang-seo are shown having sex in a hot tub at a ski resort.
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The Hypnotized / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
The Hypnotized / int_8970d739	comment	The One That Got Away: Ji-soo, stuck in a bad marriage, is haunted by memories of her old lover, Han Jang-seo. Jang-seo, a professional skier, had a passionate romance with Ji-soo, until he precipitously dumped her for no clear reason. She can't forget him, and it's during her hypnotic memory of having sex with Jang-seo that Seok-won rapes her.
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The Hypnotized / int_9280aea4	type	Your Worst Memory
The Hypnotized / int_9280aea4	comment	Your Worst Memory: Seok-won actually tells Ji-soo while she's under hypnosis that she has to face her "saddest memory." She then remembers her old lover Jang-seo, who dumped her...and it's when she's in the throes of passion as she remembers their lovemaking that Seok-won rapes her.
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The Hypnotized / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
The Hypnotized / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Seok-won starts out as a decent, honorable man and respected psychiatrist, and something close to invokedThe Woobie as he is lonely and grieving after the death of his wife. But his obsession with and lust for the gorgeous Ji-soo eventually leads to him using his professional skills to engage in hypnotic mind control and rape.
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The Hypnotized / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Hypnotized / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In the early going, as Seok-won is quitting the hospital, his supervisor makes a comment about him giving hypnosis lessons to the staff. He later uses his hypnosis skills to have sex with Ji-soo while she is in a trance and imagining him to be her old boyfriend.
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The Hypnotized / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
The Hypnotized / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: An unsuccessful one, although it seems to have been a near thing as the tub was full of blood when Min-seok found his wife.
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The Hypnotized / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Hypnotized / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Beautiful Ji-soo is shown naked quite a bit.
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The Hypnotized / int_bb0a2242	type	No-Tell Motel
The Hypnotized / int_bb0a2242	comment	No-Tell Motel: When Seok-won hopes to have sex with Ji-soo in a non-hypnotized state, he takes her to a motel that advertises "rooms by the hour."
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The Hypnotized / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
The Hypnotized / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Hypno Fool: A dark example. Ji-soo rejects Seok-won and in fact reconciles with her husband, but Seok-won has implanted a hypnotic command in her mind. Whenever he calls her at 8 pm and utters a specific trigger phrase, she goes into a trance, and comes by his office at 9 pm for sex. Once she does this when the call comes while she and her husband are out shopping, to his confusion, and another time this happens just as Ji-soo and Min-seok are at the airport about to leave on a vacation.
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The Hypnotized / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Hypnotized / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Seoul, a giant metropolis, and Seok-won meets his old patient Ji-soo at random, at a grocery store, a year after she left his care.
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The Hypnotized / int_dd234c2f	type	Hallucinations
The Hypnotized / int_dd234c2f	comment	Hallucinations: Ji-soo has them as a symptom of her schizophrenia. The opening scene has her trying to write a book, while the objects on her desk start floating up into mid-air. Then they all crash down, the glass shattering, and she hallucinates herself being covered in blood. Ji-soo also has multiple hallucinations of a woman who turns out to be Seok-won's late wife.
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The Hypnotized / int_f3b590a	type	Vengeful Ghost
The Hypnotized / int_f3b590a	comment	Vengeful Ghost: The most likely interpretation of the ambiguous ending. Seok-won is in his office when, at the time usually appointed for their hypno-sex, the mangled corpse of Ji-soo (she was killed in a car accident) shows up. He flees in terror, and winds up falling off the balcony to his death. It seems as if it might be a hallucination—but then the musical chimes of the novelty staircase to Seok-won's office sound out, even though no one is there. Then Ji-soo, no longer mangled, gradually appears in the hallway before taking the elevator back down. The implication is that the ghost of Ji-soo showed up to cause the death of Seok-won, who not only raped her, but is himself responsible for her death (she was under his hypnotic spell when she was killed).
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The Hypnotized / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
The Hypnotized / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: How Seok-won meets his richly deserved end. He flees in terror from the ghost of Ji-soo and falls off his balcony, falling many stories before dying when he crashes into the roof of a car.
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