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Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Shutter




Shutter is a 2008 remake of the 2004 Thai film of the same name. The remake was directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and was released on March 21, 2008.[2].

Ben and his new wife Jane leave New York for Tokyo, Japan, where Ben has a job as a photographer. While traveling, Jane hits a girl in the middle of the wilderness, wearing a thin dress, despite the cold and snow. After regaining consciousness, they find there was no body or even a trace of blood on both the car and road, and decide to let the police investigate the incident. They later start to find mysterious lights in their photos, which was later idenitfied as spirit photography by Ben's assistant Seiko Nakamura and Jane begins to have eerie dreams and visions as if they are trying to tell her something. Ben begins to complain of severe shoulder pain, and his friends begin to comment he's looking bent and hunched over, though the doctor he goes to see can find no cause. Seiko takes Jane to her ex-boyfriend,Ritsuo, who says that the lights are spirits, manifestations of intense emotions. They then go to a psychic, Murasame; however, Ben refuses to translate what Murasame says, claiming he is a hack.

Later on Jane decides to visit the office building in the photo. When she gets there, she goes to the floor where the light has gathered, and takes pictures in the empty office. She encounters the yūrei, and learns that the girl's name was Megumi Tanaka and that Ben knew her. When she confronts Ben about it, he admits that he and Megumi were once involved in a relationship, but that after the death of her father, she became very obsessive and clingy, and eventually dumped her, with help from his two friends. Jane is upset with Ben and decides they need to find Megumi.

They go to Megumi's home, only to find her decayed body; she had committed suicide with potassium cyanide. Meanwhile, Ben's friends, Adam and Bruno, are killed by Megumi. Adam's eye is torn out while shooting pictures and dies from shock; Bruno commits suicide by jumping from up his apartment in a state of shock and undress, suggest that he has been sexually violated. Finally, Ben is attacked by Megumi, who attempts to choke him during a sexual action. After nearly throwing Jane through a nearby window, Megumi stops, leaving Ben alive.

After Megumi's funeral, Ben and Jane return to New York, thinking it's all over. However, Jane finds some recent photos in an envelope which still show Megumi. She then finds more photos, taken by Ben, showing Adam and Bruno forcing themselves on Megumi, while Ben have done nothing but watching them doing the deed. After this discovery, Ben returns home, where he tries to explain he felt it was the only way to drive Megumi away, as nothing else was working. This explains why Ben didn't want to translate what the psychic said earlier in the film and why Megumi murdered Adam and Bruno, as Ben knew this is about revenge againsting all three of them. Realizing that Megumi was trying to warn her and disgusted by Ben's past actions, Jane leaves.

Angered and apparently driven mad by Jane's departure, Ben begins photographing the apartment with his Polaroid camera looking for Megumi for confrontation. After throwing the camera across the room, it takes a picture of him, showing Megumi sitting astride his shoulders. Remembering in the hospital where a nurse is weighing Ben, showing a weight of 275 lbs, the weight of two people, as well as the mysterious shoulder pains, made him to realise that Megumi has been with him all along since her suicide without his knowledge. Horrified, and in an effort to rid himself of her, he electrocutes himself. He is rendered completely catatonic and sent to a mental institution. The last scene is a reflection of the glass from the door, showing Megumi still draped across him.


Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_(2008_film)

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