Somehow managed to barely survive(hmm maybe not) The Eye 2. Besides the gore and the horror, amazingly a horror flick actually has some themes to it worth thinking about.
( Those who actually watch lots and lots of these gory things, pardon me my ignorance. It is not everyday that I get totally freaked out by 'the others'.)
Karma - the show depicts unborn children as a means for lost souls to have a chance at a new life. Also, there seems to be a fixed assignment of souls to their prospective mothers. The basis of this assignment is based on karma itself. Though I have to say, the karmic system in the show works ratherly strangely and seems somewhat flawed.
(Hmmm, disclaimer here: No offence is intended at any divine maker of the karmic system, just in case the system protrayed in the show happens to be accurate.)
It is flawed in that the givers of the karmic cycle in this show (i.e. the mothers) are always female, and are either totally innocent or with no direct connection with how the soul died in the first place. This is while the real jerk, who caused the death of his wife and nearly caused Shu Qi's death can sit around and whine about how horrible the whole ordeal was for him and how he wished he could just forget everything. He doesn't seem to get anything from the cycle, not even vaguely some form of guilt.
It seems to me as if women really do suffer a lot more as protrayed under the karmic cycle of this show. Well, on the bright side of things, this demonstrates two points: 1) that according to my readings, women are supposed to be on the highest end of the karmic cycle because they get the fullest experience of life. ( Yes, my fellow sisters, we are more enlightened than those bigots who can't see beyond themselves.)
2) Motherhood has to be the greatest thing on earth because the mother goes through physical and emotional trauma just to give someone another go at the game of life. (Which is why I think, despite the really gory implications this movie makes about pregnancy, the govt still didn't ban it in light of their increasing-birth-rate-policies.)
And I have to say this man : Love ya mummy! :)
