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''The Eye'' (aka ''Gin Gwai'') is a 2002 East Asian horror film directed by the Pang Brothers, starring Angelica Lee. The film spawned three sequels (also by the Pang brothers), ''The Eye 2'' (2004), ''The Eye 10'', aka ''The Eye Infinity'' and sometimes referred to as ''The Eye 3'' (2005) and ''The Child's Eye'' (2010). None of the sequels are connected story-wise, but share similar themes. There are three remakes of the first film: ''Adhu'' a 2004 Indian version, ''Naina'', a 2005 Indian version (with the Pang Brothers completely uncredited) and ''The Eye'', a 2008 US version starring Creator/JessicaAlba.
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''The Eye'' (aka ''Gin Gwai'') is a 2002 East Asian Hong Kong horror film directed by the Pang Brothers, starring Angelica Lee. The film spawned three sequels (also by the Pang brothers), ''The Eye 2'' (2004), ''The Eye 10'', aka ''The Eye Infinity'' and sometimes referred to as ''The Eye 3'' (2005) and ''The Child's Eye'' (2010). None of the sequels are connected story-wise, but share similar themes. There are three remakes of the first film: ''Adhu'' a 2004 Indian version, ''Naina'', a 2005 Indian version (with the Pang Brothers completely uncredited) and ''The Eye'', a 2008 US version starring Creator/JessicaAlba.
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** Arguably the second film as well: [[spoiler: Despite her constant attempts to suicide, Joey finally accepts that the spirit following her wants to be reincarnated as her daughter. She even apologizes to her baby when she gives birth to it]].
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** Arguably the second film as well: [[spoiler: Despite her constant attempts to at suicide, Joey finally accepts that the spirit following her wants to be reincarnated as her daughter. She even apologizes to her baby when she gives birth to it]].
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* WhatTheHellHero: As mentioned above, Wah does this to Mun when she has her HeroicBSOD.
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** [[spoiler: Surprisingly enough, the second film averts this: Despite Joey's constant attempts to kill herself by jumping to her death, her baby ''survives'']].
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** [[spoiler: Surprisingly enough, the second film invokes this: Despite Joey's constant attempts to kill herself by jumping to her death, her baby ''survives'']].
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* NonjIndicativeTitle: ''The Eye 10'' is not the tenth installment of a long-running movie series. It's actually a movie about exploring ten different methods in seeing ghosts. In it's own series, it's only the third installment.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:In the second film, it is revealed that Joey's estranged boyfriend, Sam, was actually married when he started dating Joey, although Joey knew nothing of this. It is also revealed that Sam's wife, Yuen (who killed herself after she discovered the affair), is the ghost who has been following Joey around, in the hopes that she will be reincarnated in the body of Joey and Sam's unborn child.]]
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* VillainousRescue: At one point in the second movie, Joey is attacked and knocked out by a rapist, but she is saved by the ghost, who brutally mauls the rapist, leaving his whole body covered in bandages.
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* HistoryRepeats: Both Mun and Ling saw great tragedies they failed to prevent, albeit for different reasons:[[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Ling's village refused to heed her warnings about the fire]]]] and [[spoiler:[[LanguageBarrier Cantonese-speaking Mun wasn't able to tell the Thai-speaking motorists about the explosion]]]].
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The second film follows the story of Joey (played by Shu Qi), who, after a failed suicide attempt, discovers that she is pregnant. She soon learns that attempting suicide while pregnant has granted her the ability to see ghosts. This, along with her estranged boyfriend's distant behaviour, only serves to make her more miserable, but, when she starts being followed by the spirit of a sinister-looking woman and discovering the ghost's motives, she faces a desperate struggle to save herself and her unborn child.
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The second film follows the story of Joey (played by Shu Qi), Creator/ShuQi), who, after a failed suicide attempt, discovers that she is pregnant. She soon learns that attempting suicide while pregnant has granted her the ability to see ghosts. This, along with her estranged boyfriend's distant behaviour, only serves to make her more miserable, but, when she starts being followed by the spirit of a sinister-looking woman and discovering the ghost's motives, she faces a desperate struggle to save herself and her unborn child.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Inverted. Early on in the first film, Mun rejected a offer to move to Canada because she doesn’t speak English. That lack of speaking skills [[spoiler: is what prevents the motorists in Bangkok from evacuating before the explosion, since nobody understood her yelling in Cantonese.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: Inverted. Early on in the first film, Mun rejected a offer to move to Canada because she doesn’t speak English. That Her lack of speaking skills [[spoiler: is what prevents the motorists in Bangkok from evacuating before the explosion, since nobody understood her yelling in Cantonese.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy - Shu Qi of ''TheStormRiders'', ''TheTransporter'' and ''{{Gorgeous}}'' stars in the second film as Joey.
** Angelica Lee, who plays Mun, would later appear in ''{{Koma}}''.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The original and US remake end with [[spoiler:the protagonist losing her eyes again.]]
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* ArcWelding: The first two films have no story connections, and nothing in common save for the main character being able to see ghosts; the third ties them together by explaining that there are ten different ways a person may be able to see ghosts, and two of them were depicted in those films.
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''The Eye'' (aka ''Gin Gwai'') is a 2002 East Asian horror film directed by the Pang Brothers, starring Angelica Lee. The film spawned three sequels (also by the Pang brothers), ''The Eye 2'' (2004), ''The Eye 10'', aka ''The Eye Infinity'' and sometimes referred to as ''The Eye 3'' (2005) and ''The Child's Eye'' (2010). None of the sequels are connected story-wise, but share similar themes. There are three remakes of the first film: ''Adhu'' a 2004 Indian version, ''Naina'', a 2005 Indian version (with the Pang Brothers completely uncredited) and ''The Eye'', a 2008 US version starring JessicaAlba.
Creator/JessicaAlba.
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''The Eye'' (aka ''Gin Gwai'') is a 2002 East Asian horror film directed by the Pang Brothers, starring Angelica Lee. The film spawned three sequels (also by the Pang brothers), ''The Eye 2'' (2004), ''The Eye 10'', aka ''The Eye Infinity'' and sometimes referred to as ''The Eye 3'' (2005) and ''The Child's Eye'' (2010). None of the sequels are connected story-wise, but share similar themes. There are three remakes of the first film: ''Adhu'' a 2004 Indian version, ''Naina'', a 2005 Indian version (with the Pang Brothers completely uncredited) and ''The Eye'', a 2008 US version starring JessicaAlba.
The first film centers around a Hong Kong violinist, Wong Kar Mun, who has been blind from a very young age, undergoing a cornea transplant to help her regain her sight. Although overjoyed at having her sight returned to her, her joy soon turns to terror when she begins to see ghosts, and a mysterious figure, whose presence seems to foretell strange deaths. After a terrifying discovery, she and her doctor's nephew (and her love interest), Dr. Wah, decide to investigate the truth behind these events, and also find out just who she received her new corneas from.
The second film follows the story of Joey (played by Shu Qi), who, after a failed suicide attempt, discovers that she is pregnant. She soon learns that attempting suicide while pregnant has granted her the ability to see ghosts. This, along with her estranged boyfriend's distant behaviour, only serves to make her more miserable, but, when she starts being followed by the spirit of a sinister-looking woman and discovering the ghost's motives, she faces a desperate struggle to save herself and her unborn child.
The third film follows the story of five teenagers who read from a book detailing ten different methods for seeing the dead. (Hence, the ''10'' in the film's title.) They decide to play the book's game, but, once it starts, they must finish it, or forever be haunted by ghosts.
!!'''This movie series contains examples of:'''
* BerserkButton: The ghost in the calligraphy class does ''not'' approve of people sitting in her old chair.
* BittersweetEnding: The first film.
* BodyHorror: The man in the elevator.
* BungledSuicide: Joey. [[spoiler:Several times.]] She overdoses on pills and comes close to death, but is saved when she is taken to hospital and has her stomach pumped. [[spoiler:Later, she jumps off a building, and she still survives.]]
* CreepyChild - [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel "Have you seen my report card?"]]
* CreepyMonotone: The "report card" kid exclusively talks like this.
* DisabledHottie: Mun and Sydney.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The "report card" kid]], as well as [[spoiler:Ling]]. Joey tries and fails to kill herself in the second film, [[spoiler:more than once]]. In the same film, [[spoiler:Yuen]] kills herself by jumping in front of a train when she learns of [[spoiler:Sam's affair with Joey.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave - [[spoiler:The ending of the first movie.]]
* EyeScream - Probably inevitable given the name. The U.S. remake, at the very least, includes a deleted scene where (in a vision) Sydney tries to pull out her eyes by the optic nerves and a scene near the end where we get a first-person view and a close-up of [[spoiler:glass from an explosion penetrating Sydney's eyes]].
** There is also a close-up of [[spoiler:glass flying into Mun's eyes]] at the end of the original.
** The movie poster for the US remake has this trope in ''spades''.
** Although it is never shown happening, the mere idea of a cornea transplant could be considered an EyeScream.
* FaceRevealingTurn - The elevator scene. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Oh, GOD, the elevator scene]].
* FacialHorror: The man in the elevator has the right side of his face completely caved in. In the US remake, the face of the man in the elevator is a bloody, gruesome mess.
** In ''The Eye 2'', Joey goes a bit crazy and ends up biting off a man's nose. The act is never shown (Joey herself doesn't even realise she's done it until afterwards, as she blacked out during the attack), and the full damage isn't, either, but the man is shown screaming in pain with a blood-soaked bandage over his damaged nose.
* {{Flatline}}: Happens during the flashbacks revealing that [[spoiler:Ying Ying succumbed to her cancer.]]
* FootFocus - Present in both versions.
* ForeignRemake - The Indian and US remakes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first film, the exorcist called to Mun's apartment block mentions that [[spoiler:the souls of those who have commited suicide are doomed to an endless, painful cycle of repeating their own deaths, unless the issues from their lifetime can be resolved. This comes up later when Mun realises how to end the pain of Ling, who killed herself.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: A non-physical version happens in the first film, when [[spoiler:a frustrated Wah confronts Mun about running away from her ghost problems]].
* GhostlyGoals: Largely Type A. Subverted in ''The Eye 2'' - at first, it appears as though Yuen, the ghostly woman following Joey around, is a Type B example. As it turns out, [[spoiler:she doesn't bear Joey any ill will and instead wishes to be reincarnated.]]
* TheGrimReaper / {{Psychopomp}}: A tall, thin, pale-faced man dressed head-to-toe in black often appears to guide the souls of the recently deceased to the other side. He also never appears fully in-focus, always blurred. [[spoiler:And, as the ending shows, there's more than one of them... apparently there exists one for every soul.]]
* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]]: When the ghost who appears in the calligraphy class launches herself at Mun, her lower half fades away.
* HeroicBSOD: Joey is already undergoing one by the time ''The Eye 2'' begins.
** Mun has one in the first movie, after seeing too many ghosts for her liking: [[spoiler:she becomes a recluse, refuses to leave her bedroom, keeps her eyes closed all the time in an attempt to mimick her past blindness and goes back to reading braile, and removes her bedroom lightbulb]]. She snaps out of it eventually.
* HeyItsThatGuy - Shu Qi of ''TheStormRiders'', ''TheTransporter'' and ''{{Gorgeous}}'' stars in the second film as Joey.
** Angelica Lee, who plays Mun, would later appear in ''{{Koma}}''.
* HospitalHottie: Dr. Wah.
* IllGirl / LittlestCancerPatient: Ying Ying.
* InterruptedSuicide: In the second film, [[spoiler:Joey desperately attempts to hang herself when she learns that Yuen wishes to be reincarnated in the body of her unborn child. The ghost of Yuen thwarts each and every attempt.]]
* InNameOnly - The two sequels.
* InfantImmortality - Brutally averted - repeatedly - in a deeply heartbreaking manner.
* JumpScare
* MagicalDefibrillator: Averted.
* MamaBear: Joey becomes this.
* ManOnFire: Mun spots the spirit of a burning man running through Ling's village, [[spoiler:one of the victims of the huge fire that devastated the area several years previously]]. Later, two screaming, burning men can be seen writhing around in agony [[spoiler:in the aftermath of the gas tank explosion]]. One of them dies on-screen, it is unclear what happens to the other one (his friends are desperately trying to put the flames out).
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent - The train scene. [[FreezeFrameBonus Just watch the window behind Mun and Wah]]...
* MirrorScare
* NeverTrustATrailer: The end of one of the trailers for the first film features Mun looking into a mirror and seeing [[TheBlank her face as a smooth, blank surface with no facial features whatsoever]]. This never appears in the movie itself - what Mun actually sees is [[spoiler:the face of Ling, the woman she received her corneas from]]. This is arguably a rare ''good'' example of this trope, as it was probably added to the trailer to prevent spoiling the movie's [[TheReveal big twist]].
* NightmareSequence - Mun has several.
* OhCrap: Both Mun and Wah get this when [[spoiler:the tanker explodes.]]
* PsychicPowers
* PsychologicalHorror
* RageAgainstTheReflection: [[spoiler:Mun smashes her bedroom mirror after realising that the reflection she sees isn't hers.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: The main plot of the second film.
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:Ying Ying briefly acts as one towards Mun after she passes away, telling her to be strong. After this, Mun begins to accept her newfound ability to see ghosts and is no longer afraid.]]
* StuffBlowingUp - [[spoiler:The ending of the first movie.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Mun orders some food in a café, but, after seeing the ghosts of a mother and baby (who are revealed to be the wife and child of the café's owner), with the mother [[{{Squick}} licking]] some of the food, she is understandably put off and leaves without touching her food.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several of the first two movies' big scares are included in the trailers.
* UndeadChild: The "report card" kid, as well as [[spoiler:Ying Ying.]]
* UnhappyMedium: [[spoiler:Ling. Her ability to see ghosts and predict future tragedies gave her nothing but hatred and rejection from everyone in her village, who believed her to be causing the deaths herself.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: As mentioned above, Wah does this to Mun when she has her HeroicBSOD.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:In the second film, it is revealed that Joey's estranged boyfriend, Sam, was actually married when he started dating Joey, although Joey knew nothing of this. It is also revealed that Sam's wife, Yuen (who killed herself after she discovered the affair), is the ghost who has been following Joey around, in the hopes that she will be reincarnated in the body of Joey and Sam's unborn child.]]
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The first film centers around a Hong Kong violinist, Wong Kar Mun, who has been blind from a very young age, undergoing a cornea transplant to help her regain her sight. Although overjoyed at having her sight returned to her, her joy soon turns to terror when she begins to see ghosts, and a mysterious figure, whose presence seems to foretell strange deaths. After a terrifying discovery, she and her doctor's nephew (and her love interest), Dr. Wah, decide to investigate the truth behind these events, and also find out just who she received her new corneas from.
The second film follows the story of Joey (played by Shu Qi), who, after a failed suicide attempt, discovers that she is pregnant. She soon learns that attempting suicide while pregnant has granted her the ability to see ghosts. This, along with her estranged boyfriend's distant behaviour, only serves to make her more miserable, but, when she starts being followed by the spirit of a sinister-looking woman and discovering the ghost's motives, she faces a desperate struggle to save herself and her unborn child.
The third film follows the story of five teenagers who read from a book detailing ten different methods for seeing the dead. (Hence, the ''10'' in the film's title.) They decide to play the book's game, but, once it starts, they must finish it, or forever be haunted by ghosts.
!!'''This movie series contains examples of:'''
* BerserkButton: The ghost in the calligraphy class does ''not'' approve of people sitting in her old chair.
* BittersweetEnding: The first film.
* BodyHorror: The man in the elevator.
* BungledSuicide: Joey. [[spoiler:Several times.]] She overdoses on pills and comes close to death, but is saved when she is taken to hospital and has her stomach pumped. [[spoiler:Later, she jumps off a building, and she still survives.]]
* CreepyChild - [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel "Have you seen my report card?"]]
* CreepyMonotone: The "report card" kid exclusively talks like this.
* DisabledHottie: Mun and Sydney.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The "report card" kid]], as well as [[spoiler:Ling]]. Joey tries and fails to kill herself in the second film, [[spoiler:more than once]]. In the same film, [[spoiler:Yuen]] kills herself by jumping in front of a train when she learns of [[spoiler:Sam's affair with Joey.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave - [[spoiler:The ending of the first movie.]]
* EyeScream - Probably inevitable given the name. The U.S. remake, at the very least, includes a deleted scene where (in a vision) Sydney tries to pull out her eyes by the optic nerves and a scene near the end where we get a first-person view and a close-up of [[spoiler:glass from an explosion penetrating Sydney's eyes]].
** There is also a close-up of [[spoiler:glass flying into Mun's eyes]] at the end of the original.
** The movie poster for the US remake has this trope in ''spades''.
** Although it is never shown happening, the mere idea of a cornea transplant could be considered an EyeScream.
* FaceRevealingTurn - The elevator scene. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Oh, GOD, the elevator scene]].
* FacialHorror: The man in the elevator has the right side of his face completely caved in. In the US remake, the face of the man in the elevator is a bloody, gruesome mess.
** In ''The Eye 2'', Joey goes a bit crazy and ends up biting off a man's nose. The act is never shown (Joey herself doesn't even realise she's done it until afterwards, as she blacked out during the attack), and the full damage isn't, either, but the man is shown screaming in pain with a blood-soaked bandage over his damaged nose.
* {{Flatline}}: Happens during the flashbacks revealing that [[spoiler:Ying Ying succumbed to her cancer.]]
* FootFocus - Present in both versions.
* ForeignRemake - The Indian and US remakes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first film, the exorcist called to Mun's apartment block mentions that [[spoiler:the souls of those who have commited suicide are doomed to an endless, painful cycle of repeating their own deaths, unless the issues from their lifetime can be resolved. This comes up later when Mun realises how to end the pain of Ling, who killed herself.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: A non-physical version happens in the first film, when [[spoiler:a frustrated Wah confronts Mun about running away from her ghost problems]].
* GhostlyGoals: Largely Type A. Subverted in ''The Eye 2'' - at first, it appears as though Yuen, the ghostly woman following Joey around, is a Type B example. As it turns out, [[spoiler:she doesn't bear Joey any ill will and instead wishes to be reincarnated.]]
* TheGrimReaper / {{Psychopomp}}: A tall, thin, pale-faced man dressed head-to-toe in black often appears to guide the souls of the recently deceased to the other side. He also never appears fully in-focus, always blurred. [[spoiler:And, as the ending shows, there's more than one of them... apparently there exists one for every soul.]]
* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]]: When the ghost who appears in the calligraphy class launches herself at Mun, her lower half fades away.
* HeroicBSOD: Joey is already undergoing one by the time ''The Eye 2'' begins.
** Mun has one in the first movie, after seeing too many ghosts for her liking: [[spoiler:she becomes a recluse, refuses to leave her bedroom, keeps her eyes closed all the time in an attempt to mimick her past blindness and goes back to reading braile, and removes her bedroom lightbulb]]. She snaps out of it eventually.
* HeyItsThatGuy - Shu Qi of ''TheStormRiders'', ''TheTransporter'' and ''{{Gorgeous}}'' stars in the second film as Joey.
** Angelica Lee, who plays Mun, would later appear in ''{{Koma}}''.
* HospitalHottie: Dr. Wah.
* IllGirl / LittlestCancerPatient: Ying Ying.
* InterruptedSuicide: In the second film, [[spoiler:Joey desperately attempts to hang herself when she learns that Yuen wishes to be reincarnated in the body of her unborn child. The ghost of Yuen thwarts each and every attempt.]]
* InNameOnly - The two sequels.
* InfantImmortality - Brutally averted - repeatedly - in a deeply heartbreaking manner.
* JumpScare
* MagicalDefibrillator: Averted.
* MamaBear: Joey becomes this.
* ManOnFire: Mun spots the spirit of a burning man running through Ling's village, [[spoiler:one of the victims of the huge fire that devastated the area several years previously]]. Later, two screaming, burning men can be seen writhing around in agony [[spoiler:in the aftermath of the gas tank explosion]]. One of them dies on-screen, it is unclear what happens to the other one (his friends are desperately trying to put the flames out).
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent - The train scene. [[FreezeFrameBonus Just watch the window behind Mun and Wah]]...
* MirrorScare
* NeverTrustATrailer: The end of one of the trailers for the first film features Mun looking into a mirror and seeing [[TheBlank her face as a smooth, blank surface with no facial features whatsoever]]. This never appears in the movie itself - what Mun actually sees is [[spoiler:the face of Ling, the woman she received her corneas from]]. This is arguably a rare ''good'' example of this trope, as it was probably added to the trailer to prevent spoiling the movie's [[TheReveal big twist]].
* NightmareSequence - Mun has several.
* OhCrap: Both Mun and Wah get this when [[spoiler:the tanker explodes.]]
* PsychicPowers
* PsychologicalHorror
* RageAgainstTheReflection: [[spoiler:Mun smashes her bedroom mirror after realising that the reflection she sees isn't hers.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: The main plot of the second film.
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:Ying Ying briefly acts as one towards Mun after she passes away, telling her to be strong. After this, Mun begins to accept her newfound ability to see ghosts and is no longer afraid.]]
* StuffBlowingUp - [[spoiler:The ending of the first movie.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Mun orders some food in a café, but, after seeing the ghosts of a mother and baby (who are revealed to be the wife and child of the café's owner), with the mother [[{{Squick}} licking]] some of the food, she is understandably put off and leaves without touching her food.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several of the first two movies' big scares are included in the trailers.
* UndeadChild: The "report card" kid, as well as [[spoiler:Ying Ying.]]
* UnhappyMedium: [[spoiler:Ling. Her ability to see ghosts and predict future tragedies gave her nothing but hatred and rejection from everyone in her village, who believed her to be causing the deaths herself.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: As mentioned above, Wah does this to Mun when she has her HeroicBSOD.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:In the second film, it is revealed that Joey's estranged boyfriend, Sam, was actually married when he started dating Joey, although Joey knew nothing of this. It is also revealed that Sam's wife, Yuen (who killed herself after she discovered the affair), is the ghost who has been following Joey around, in the hopes that she will be reincarnated in the body of Joey and Sam's unborn child.]]
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