Muoi - The Legend of the Portrait

Jo An - Yoon Hee
Cha Ye Ryeon - Seo Yeon

SYNOPSIS:

Yoon-hee, a novelist, desperately seeks for a new story and that’s when she hears from Seo-yeon, her friend in Vietnam, a very tempting story about a legend of Muoi’s portrait.

A long-time grudge makes Yoon-hee hesitate to go to Vietnam to meet Seo-yeon. However, fascinated by sources of the portrait Seo-yeon incessantly sends her, Yoon-hee heads for Vietnam to unveil a century-long legend of the portrait.

Yoon-hee is stunned by Seo-yeon’s dazzling look never seen before but is readily welcomed by her friend.

As Yoon-hee unveils the mystery of Muoi, Vietnam, seemingly an exotic place, turns into a setting of a living nightmare, and the secret of Muoi in buried as if never to be revealed.

REVIEW:

It is a very unlikely story and one of those which will kind of leave you hanging in the end. Although there were lots of unanswered questions, I can still say that this movie is somehow good, especially the way the supposed to be ghosts made efforts to hide their real identities both from the main characters and the viewers as well.

Moui's story was believed to be a betrayal of friendship and others believed that it was about a betrayal in love. As the story unfolded, many revelations have been shown and little by little, you will understand why the once attractive woman Muoi has come back to the earth and continued raging the curse of revenge even through a hundred years.

I really love the way the movie has unfolded and the truth was revealed that somehow, I couldn't blame both Muoi and Seo Yeon for coming back and seeking revenge even after their deaths.

I also have noticed Seo Yeon's dresses. They were all Vietnamese-inspired and so beautiful.