Three in one. School violence is not a purely Korean, Japanese or any other country problem. One way or another, peers often show strength over classmates, and the more privileged the school, the more sophisticated ways it manifests itself. Yoo Soo-yeon is studying at one of these, or rather survives. Day by day, she is brutally beaten by her classmates, filming it all on camera. One day, the girl is hospitalized in critical condition. However, this only exacerbates the situation. Obstinate mothers come straight to the ward and demand that Soo Young leave school, because it is her fault that their children are so cruel. Her father turned away from her, and one of her classmates, wishing her to die as soon as possible, said that she would wait for Su Yeon to go to school to “play with her doll” again. Desperate, Yu tries to take his own life. It was at that moment that a strange woman, a school counselor, appears in the hospital, reports that the girl has a twin sister, Jung Yong, who will help to make an insidious and cruel plan.
Everything that happens next resembles a sharp psychological thriller. Retribution and revenge, a difficult childhood and the desire to fix everything, the former tormentors themselves will experience everything that they did to their classmate. It was interesting to see the two sisters switching places. Soo Young is a downtrodden quiet woman who timidly endured all the beatings and humiliations. Jung-yeon is a desperate rebel, who will not get into her pocket for a word, and does not shun any methods. It's all about revenge, no matter what happens next. Very strange, but both heroines are not at all similar to each other not only in their character traits, but also in appearance, although they are played by the same actress No John-i. I noticed a number of other inconsistencies in the story. Where, for example, the parents of twins, let them be long divorced, and each of the sisters lives with their adult. But why do they let schoolgirls live alone with a school counselor they don't know? They are never shown to the viewer. Next, who is this mysterious consultant? Does she have the right, without the permission of her superiors, to settle the girls in her own home, and to conceive such an insidious plan of revenge, without thinking at all about the consequences? It doesn't seem like an adult. There are many other inconsistencies over which my head is constantly scratching.
Towards the end, the storyline makes an unusual turn, which drives the viewer into a real stupor. Acute psychological trauma, damaged mind and an unstoppable thirst for violence that turns the victim into a tormentor and it is not yet clear who to sympathize with more. The viewer finally finds a logical explanation for many of his questions. However, the creators of the picture do not give us full clarity. Trying to confuse the plot, a few times the line makes a twist, so that at the very end, already in the final credits you feel fooled. Lonely shoes in the woods lead us to both the victim and her tormentors. And who will come next - a quite decent healer of crippled souls or a maniac strangler? This question remains behind the scenes and on the conscience of the viewer.
7 out of 10