The Eye (Collector's Edition) [2002]

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great film.......2008-02-01

when i descovered east asian films, i knew i would always be a fan of them. i bought this film on impulse in an hmv shop, and it is my favourite film, it is simply great, i cannot find the words that would justly descride how good it is. the acting is really good, and it is seriously creepy, and sad at the same time, i cried all the way through it.

at the end, there is a scene that is truly horrifying, and although desgustingly gruesome, it is also very sad and really gripping and you become really involved with the main character and can appreciate why she is so burdened by this 'gift'.

i seriously recommend it to anyone, but those who like asian films, would definately love it, no doubt, and if you don't, then asian films aren't for you.

Disappointingly unscary.......2008-01-28

I bought this largely on the reviews on this page. It was a good film, reasonable story, even though you could see it all coming. However I waited all through the film to be scared, spooked or even mildly tingled. I admit the scene in the lift was a bit 'tense', thats the strongest word I can use to describe it and I did watch it late at night with the lights off.
There have been a couple of recent Dr Who episodes which completely out spook this. Maybe Im too old and cynical to be scared by films anymore, Im 41. Having said all that it was entertaining.

When i was a kid this was a fairy tale .......2008-01-28

This movie scares the bejezzus outta me - the moment when shes in the studio learning to write being one in particular - you'll know that moment when you see it! the burned corpses in the cars are wierdly beautiful and the ending romantic enough for me to be able to go to bed without nightmares.love this movie to bits.

Very average horror from Asia.......2007-11-01

I like horrors from Asia and I was keen to see this one.This film had its moments of make you jump scary scenes but not too many,and the story was quite decent as well.A woman who has been blind since she was young gets an eye transplant,but things start to take a turn for the worse soon after.Overall I liked this film and I would recommend it to any fan of horrors from Asia.

Better be blind if you can only see catastrophes.......2007-10-23

A disquieting film more than a frightening story. A young woman, after a nearly total life of blindness, recuperates her eyesight after getting new corneas grafted on her eyes. But along with them she gets the visionary capability of the young woman who donated them, after her own death. The film does not try to frighten us or even terrorize us. It tries to convince her that this story is true with two doctors as main witnesses and extremely realistic shooting and editing. We are immersed into the story as if it were absolutely normal and true, without any special effects and extraordinary events. What's more it insists on the disturbing effect of this power onto the young woman, to the point of her preferring going back to blindness. Then we end up with extremely disquieting questions. Is eyesight responsible for our unhappiness or mishaps? Do we learn how to reject what we don't like along with seeing when we are children in a segregative not to say racist way? Is our seeing tamed and conditioned early in our life? And this creates in us an uneasy feeling that makes us shrink away from something that could very well be a true fact since our education is not to teach us to see everything but to see in the proper way. The film is trying to convince us of this brainwashing we have been through without even knowing it. Isn't it then better to refuse to see and lock ourselves into some kind of artificial blindness that will protect us from the nightmares of real life. What we do not see does not exist. Isn't that blindness nothing but the same thing as the selective seeing of normal people?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

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Not only did 1999 mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Johann Strauss Sr., but the centenary of the passing of his son, Johann Strauss, "The Waltz King". To commemorate, on the evening of May 29, 1999 in Vienna's grand Heldenplatz almost 8,000 people gathered for a gala concert. This Wiener Philharmoniker performance was conducted by Zubin Meta (who had previously conducted the The Three Tenors, one of whom, José Carreras is here joined by soprano Andrea Rost for two duets from Strauss operettas). At 103 minutes this DVD offers 19 selections, but either there was an interval after just six pieces, or considering how rapidly it gets dark between "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka" and the "Overture" from Die Fledermaus, there has been some cutting. Given such a great orchestra and the wonderful setting, it would have been nice to see people dancing to what is after all, real dance music. Despite the static nature of the event, the music is still uplifting, moving even the staid Vienna audience to clap along by the finale of the rousing "Radetzky March".

On the DVD: Other than some useful booklet notes there are no special features, and unlike most other Arthaus titles the sound is offered only in stereo Dolby Digital and PCM stereo. This is presumably due to the difficulties associated with outdoor acoustics and live recording which nearly prevented the concert going ahead. The anamorphically enhanced picture generally makes the most of the spectacular location, having a clarity in the close-ups such that it is virtually possible to count the hairs on the musicians heads.--Gary S. Dalkin

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