Eye

Year: 2002

Grade: C

Country: Japan

Director: Pang

Review

another in a wave of recent japanese horror films. this one is most interesting because of its societal subtext, but isn’t as scary or good as ringu. it’s about a blind girl who gets a cornea transplant to correct her eyesight. it turns out that the new cornea allows her to see dead people because she is essentially seeing the world through the eyes of the donor. in this way the film is sorta like “body parts.” socially it’s interesting because once she is able to see, she is afraid of what she sees. death is all around her, blah blah blah. in the end she discovers that being blind isn’t so bad, but, also, that the world is a beautiful place. there’s some good music, but it’s sorta cheesy and not all that scary.