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Spell bounded by Son Ye Jin 's Beauty
Son Ye Jin the Queen of beauty , damn she looks ravishing as ever.i would say her presence has really shouldered the movie and was cute,adorable and funny.
There is a huge potential of it being spread out to be 16 episode drama.
I love FL is upfront about the kissing, so sweet.
Gosht part was kinda felt a little distant until they shown that necklace flashback, that was good.
Best of all the climax where coworker tries to convince the ghost recruit for the gig was real funny.
Really enjoyed.
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Very Enjoyable
This movie is remarkable for its success at mixing genuine creepy horror and a romantic arc together with some hilarious comedy. It feels rushed as it checks off all the steps from cold relationship to romantic entanglement in a little less than two hours. But that's because I guessing most viewers, like me, are used to seeing all these steps detailed in 12 to 16 hour long episodes, so yes it is rushed. This story as we've seen elsewhere can be told over a much longer span and it works.Master's Sun mixed some supernatural scary spooks into its story but what's remarkable here is that the spooks and how there're shown are really creepy, and then suddenly some funny switch will kick in and the scene jumps to comedy. Odd, but it works.
Stay tuned to the final credits because there's an amusing attempt by the male lead's sidekick to pick up a ghost, who ignores him walking, or drifting away.
The rules as to who can see ghosts when are loose. But the story points move fast so there's no time to dwell on this issue.
Possible spoilers.....
I only watched the one time so I may have misunderstood a scene in which the two leads get together, i.e. sleep together, in the tent she keeps in her living room. In the morning the male lead's girl friend somehow shows up from France, knows where they are, and gains entry to her house to unzip the tent catching them inside together. Then the three are shown talking in his (?) house, and after some discussion the female lead leaves his house. I am confused how that transition took place from in the tent in her house to some other house.
I liked how the story leaves unresolved the fact the female lead is being aggressively haunted by her dead former best friend. At the end the ghost is still haunting and apparently isn't going anywhere.
A final note. I almost missed this but note in the scene in which the female lead is seeing off her new boyfriend from the front gate in the morning. As she turns to re-enter the gate, look towards the top left of the screen and you'll see a ghost, the ghost standing on the balcony.
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For me, the good sides of this movie are it's comedy relief, it's pace and acting. Even though it has some really creepy and even disturbing scenes that are surrounding the movie's plot, they didn't make them the sole center of the movie, but at the same time comedy and romance didn't make them any less creepy. Horror scenes were done really well in my opinion and made me feel uncomfortable, but comedy relief and movie's self awareness at times made this movie hilarious! I laughed a lot at some scenes cause they were unexpected, I like that type of comedy. The actors portrayed their roles quite well and a lot of times their reactions, especially laughing, felt really genuine. I think that made me sympathize with them more.
As for the things I didn't quite like is the story itself. It was a new concept for me, but it didn't quite stick to me, especially at the end. The story had such a nice pace and it was interesting, but the last 20-30 minutes felt so forced to me. And yet, at the end I felt like nothing was resolved, I didn't feel any satisfaction of a rounded up story. It felt like they just dismissed some problems that were present throughout movie without really solving them.
To conclude this review, I recommend you to watch this movie cause it's fun and the way it mixes different genres is very interesting.
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The story is really good. you'll laugh and get scared the whole time. But that's not all. its also heart warming, moving and inspiring. I find this better than the master's sun.
MUST WATCH
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This film will definitely leave you feeling Spellbound. It interweaves romance and ghosts (and a little magic on the side) in a charming and incredibly human way. It does share some similarities to the drama, Master’s Sun (Spellbound came out first in 2011) in terms of the mechanics surrounding the ghosts, i.e., why our female lead can see them and how they manifest themselves in her life. But this never bothered me. It felt like they were both stories from the same universe that kind of backed each other up. And if I’m honest, I think Spellbound handles the mechanics of the ghosts better than Master’s Sun did. Apart from these similarities though, the rest of this film is completely it’s own.My only complaint? Cheating, even emotional cheating that doesn’t get physical, is wrong, and I inherently don't enjoy it in stories. I do forgive it in this instance, because I think both of our leads were appropriately regretful over the incident and did the right thing in the end.
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