um yes it is a tale of two sisters?

Question

have you seen it? if so then can you tell me whats with the girl in the green and did the step mom kill anyone and whats that thing under the sink? also i dont get why that one kid keept saying to her dad "dont touch me with those filthy hands" what dose she mean "filthy hands"

Answer 1

One thing that needs to be understood about the movie is that most of it takes place inside the deluded head of the main "sister," and that the best (though not necessarily the only) interpretation of the events is that nothing "supernatural" about it is real. We get the "real" story at the very end of the movie, which is:

The two sisters' mother was sick from a prolonged illness, so the father brought in a full-time nurse to take care of her. However, the father and the nurse started having an affair, to the point where they were pretty much blatantly showing their relationship in front of the kids, so the sisters grew to hate the nurse.

The mother, depressed (from the disease, which is never identified in the movie, and perhaps also from knowing about the affair), kills herself by hanging herself inside the wardrobe. The younger sister finds the body, and, in the ensuing panic, the wardrobe falls on her.

The nurse finds the younger sister trapped under the wardrobe and considers going for help. But just as she's walking down the hall to do so, the older sister runs into her and gives her an attitude, which results in the nurse deciding not to let anyone know about the other sister, who dies as a result.

So the bulk of the movie takes place some time afterward--the father has married the nurse, and the surviving sister has spent some time away from the home--problem is, now she imagines that her sister is alive and with her, and, to compound the delusion, while at the house she imagines that she interacts with the nurse/stepmother, and at other times she imagines that she IS the nurse/stepmother (the real nurse/stepmother is out of town, and we don't see her until near the end of the film when the big twist happens). So you can think of it as a little bit of Fight Club (the narrator imagining Tyler Durden) with a lot of Mulholland Dr. (the main character constructing a fictional situation in her head based on elements in real life) thrown in.

The "ghosts" in the film, therefore, are all figments of the surviving sister's imagination, and don't necessarily have to make sense--the "ghost" in blue appears to be the mother, and the girl in green under the sink (that "thing," if I recall correctly, was a hair clip) as well as the ghost that attacks the stepmom at the end (which, really, should probably be interpreted as being imagined by the sister as well), is the little sister.

As for the "filthy hands" remark, I think the most sensible way to interpret it is in the context of the father having had an affair with the nurse right in front of the rest of the family.

Answer 2

Ghosts in asian horrors are real. They just are.
Yes the sister and the stepmother were imagined by Su-Mi.
But the ghosts were very real.
Some people argue that the one hovering over the bed is the mother and that the one under the sink is Su-Yeon.
The ghost (or ghosts) are confirmed to be real since the uncle's wife saw Su-Yeon's ghost under the sink herself. Also something I noted is when the uncle's wife had her seizure, her hand was shaking in the same manner as Su-Yeon's hand when she was dying under the closet. Almost as if possessed by her.

Another argument that's popular is that the scene near the end where Su-Yeon's ghost gets/kills the stepmother (we don't know) are imagined by Su-Mi. I don't buy that version. .
The scene is very real and Su-Yeon does get her revenge on the stepmother.

Answer 3

I thought the woman under the sink was supposed to be the real mum because she died kind of tragically. What I took from it is that she blamed her dad for her mother dying because if it wasn't for him she wouldn't be dead. I think maybe she thought that he may as well have killed her with his own hands.
It was such a great movie but I suppose complicated. I think it was just more examples of how messed up the girl was.
I don't think the step mom did kill anyone she was just portrayed as a villain in the girl's head.

Answer 4

I've seen and own it but it has been a very long time since i've watched it last. I don't know what that thing under the sink is though. I don't think that they ever get to tell. But once again I'm not sure it's been a long time that I've seen it last.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

no I have not seen it