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*** The parents' reactions.

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*** ** The parents' reactions.reactions to said snuff videos.
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*** The videos themselves. All the kids are sobbing, [[IWantMyMommy crying for their parents to get them]]. While the murders themselves are not shown to the audience (and possibly the parents), simply watching [[AdultFear their children scared for their doomed lives]] is enough to send the parents wailing.

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*** The videos themselves. All the kids are sobbing, [[IWantMyMommy crying for their parents to get them]]. While the murders themselves are not shown to the audience (and possibly the parents), simply watching [[AdultFear their children scared for their doomed lives]] lives is enough to send the parents wailing.
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-->'''Kid 1''': Mommy, please hurry. Mommy, I want to go home. Please hurry, mommy… Mommy, where are you?!\\

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-->'''Kid 1''': Mommy, please hurry. Mommy, I want to go home. Please hurry, mommy… Mommy, where are you?!\\



*** For starters, seconds after each tape starts, the child's respective parents are already in tears.
*** A grandmother falls to the ground in shock.
*** To top it all off, an alcoholic father picks up a chair and starts slamming it on the table. The parents try to calm him down, and in the end, they are all helplessly wailing together.

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*** **** For starters, seconds after each tape starts, the child's respective parents are already in tears.
*** **** A grandmother falls to the ground in shock.
*** **** To top it all off, an alcoholic father picks up a chair and starts slamming it on the table. The parents try to calm him down, and in the end, they are all helplessly wailing sobbing together.
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-->'''Kid 1''': Mommy, please hurry. Mommy, I want to go home. Please hurry, mommy… Mommy, where are you?!\\

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-->'''Kid 1''': Mommy, please hurry. Mommy, I want to go home. Please hurry, mommy… Mommy, where are you?!\\



*** For starters, seconds after each tape starts, the child's respective parents are already in tears
*** A grandmother falls to the ground in shock.
*** To top it all off, an alcoholic father picks up a chair and starts slamming it on the table. The parents try to calm him down, and in the end, they are all helplessly wailing together.

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*** **** For starters, seconds after each tape starts, the child's respective parents are already in tears
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A grandmother falls to the ground in shock.
*** **** To top it all off, an alcoholic father picks up a chair and starts slamming it on the table. The parents try to calm him down, and in the end, they are all helplessly wailing together.

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* TearJerker: Watching Baek's snuff movies where he kills the children.
** The birthday party for all of Baek's victims

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* TearJerker: TearJerker:
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Watching Baek's snuff movies where he kills the children.
children. Hoo boy, where do we begin?
*** The videos themselves. All the kids are sobbing, [[IWantMyMommy crying for their parents to get them]]. While the murders themselves are not shown to the audience (and possibly the parents), simply watching [[AdultFear their children scared for their doomed lives]] is enough to send the parents wailing.
-->'''Kid 1''': Mommy, please hurry. Mommy, I want to go home. Please hurry, mommy… Mommy, where are you?!\\
'''Kid 2''': Mommy, I can't… Mommy…\\
'''Kid 3''': I can't breathe. I'm scared. Please… don't kill me sir, wait just a minute…
*** The parents' reactions.
**** For starters, seconds after each tape starts, the child's respective parents are already in tears
**** A grandmother falls to the ground in shock.
**** To top it all off, an alcoholic father picks up a chair and starts slamming it on the table. The parents try to calm him down, and in the end, they are all helplessly wailing together.
** The birthday party for all of Baek's victimsvictims.
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** The rice-cake. ItMakesSenseInContext.

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** The rice-cake.block of tofu in the end. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Yeong-wook Jo's very baroque soundtrack only adds to Geum-Ja's grace and elegance.
* CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Baek Han-sang]] is a vile serial kidnapper who is responsible for ruining heroine Geum-ja's life. Having forced Geum-ja to assist him in kidnapping a child for ransom, Baek coldly murders the boy after tiring of his crying, then frames Geum-ja for the act, threatening the life of her infant daughter should she not admit to the crime. Baek then continues kidnapping children and holding them for ransom, however he kills them long before he gets paid, making snuff films of their deaths as he kills them in increasingly horrifying ways even as they beg for their lives. After [[SerialKiller murdering nearly half a dozen children]], Baek is captured by Geum-ja, who also discovers that Baek viciously [[DomesticAbuse abuses his wife]] both sexually and physically, and when confronted by the parents of his victims, Baek reveals that he truly just wanted the money from the ransoms to buy himself a yacht. Baek is made all the more despicable when he admits to only killing the children [[EvilIsPetty because they were ones who particularly annoyed him in his day job]], that of a schoolteacher.
* MagnificentBitch: Lee Geum-ja once took the [[TakingTheHeat fall for murder]] for her older lover Mr. Baek, who threatened to murder her daughter if she refused. Geum-ja spends over a decade in prison, [[BestServedCold cultivating a reputation]] as a kind-hearted saint who does favors for everyone, even giving a kidney for a woman who needs an operation. Geum-ja also poisons the rapist prison bully, and upon being released sets about getting revenge on Baek. Calling on all her favors and finding her daughter, she manipulates Baek to his capture and discovers he is a serial child killer. To deal with him, she allows the parents of his victims to [[PayEvilUntoEvil torture him to death]], and insure equal complicity so that none of them will talk without implication themselves.
* MemeticMutation: "Ni na jaraseyo." Which means, "Go mind your own business", became an extremely popular phrase in Korea.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Yeong-wook Jo's very baroque soundtrack only adds to Geum-Ja's Geum-ja's grace and elegance.
* CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Baek Han-sang]] is a vile serial kidnapper who is responsible for ruining heroine Geum-ja's life. Having forced Geum-ja to assist him in kidnapping a child for ransom, Baek coldly murders the boy after tiring of his crying, then frames Geum-ja for the act, threatening the life of her infant daughter should she not admit to the crime. Baek then continues kidnapping children and holding them for ransom, however ransom. However, he kills them long before he gets paid, making snuff films of their deaths as he kills them in increasingly horrifying ways even as they beg for their lives. After [[SerialKiller murdering nearly half a dozen children]], Baek is captured by Geum-ja, who also discovers that Baek viciously [[DomesticAbuse abuses his wife]] both sexually and physically, and when confronted by the parents of his victims, Baek reveals that he truly just wanted the money from the ransoms to buy himself a yacht. Baek is made all the more despicable when he admits to only killing the children [[EvilIsPetty because they were ones who particularly annoyed him in his day job]], that of job]] -- as a schoolteacher.
* MagnificentBitch: Lee Geum-ja once took the [[TakingTheHeat fall for murder]] for her older lover Mr. Baek, who threatened to murder her daughter if she refused. Geum-ja spends over a decade in prison, [[BestServedCold cultivating a reputation]] as a kind-hearted saint who does favors for everyone, even giving a kidney for a woman who needs an operation. Geum-ja also poisons the rapist prison bully, and upon being released sets about getting revenge on Baek. Calling on all her favors and finding her daughter, she manipulates Baek to his capture and discovers he is a serial child killer. To deal with him, she allows the parents of his victims to [[PayEvilUntoEvil torture him to death]], death]] and insure ensures equal complicity so that none of them will talk without implication themselves.
* MemeticMutation: "Ni na jaraseyo." Which jaraseyo," which means, "Go mind your own business", business," became an extremely popular phrase in Korea.
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* MagnificentBitch: Lee Geum-ja once took the [[TakingTheHeat fall for murder]] for her older lover Mr. Baek, who threatened to murder her daughter if she refused. Geum-ja spends over a decade in prison, [[BestServedCold cultivating a reputation]] as a kind-hearted saint who does favors for everyone, even giving a kidney for a woman who needs an operation. Geum-ja also poisons the rapist prison bully, and upon being released sets about getting revenge on Baek. Calling on all her favors and finding her daughter, she manipulates Baek to his capture and discovers he is a serial child killer. To deal with him, she allows the parents of his victims to [[PayEvilUntoEvil torture him to death]], and insure equal complicity so that none of them will talk without implication themselves.
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* CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Baek Han-sang]] is a vile serial kidnapper who is responsible for ruining heroine Geum-ja's life. Having forced Geum-ja to assist him in kidnapping a child for ransom, Baek coldly murders the boy after tiring of his crying, then frames Geum-ja for the act, threatening the life of her infant daughter should she not admit to the crime. Baek then continues kidnapping children and holding them for ransom, however he kills them long before he gets paid, making snuff films of their deaths as he kills them in increasingly horrifying ways even as they beg for their lives. After [[SerialKiller murdering nearly half a dozen children]], Baek is captured by Geum-ja, who also discovers that Baek viciously[[DomesticAbuse abuses his wife]] both sexually and physically, and when confronted by the parents of his victims, Baek reveals that he truly just wanted the money from the ransoms to buy himself a yacht. Baek is made all the more despicable when he admits to only killing the children [[EvilIsPetty because they were ones who particularly annoyed him in his day job]], that of a schoolteacher.

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* CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Baek Han-sang]] is a vile serial kidnapper who is responsible for ruining heroine Geum-ja's life. Having forced Geum-ja to assist him in kidnapping a child for ransom, Baek coldly murders the boy after tiring of his crying, then frames Geum-ja for the act, threatening the life of her infant daughter should she not admit to the crime. Baek then continues kidnapping children and holding them for ransom, however he kills them long before he gets paid, making snuff films of their deaths as he kills them in increasingly horrifying ways even as they beg for their lives. After [[SerialKiller murdering nearly half a dozen children]], Baek is captured by Geum-ja, who also discovers that Baek viciously[[DomesticAbuse viciously [[DomesticAbuse abuses his wife]] both sexually and physically, and when confronted by the parents of his victims, Baek reveals that he truly just wanted the money from the ransoms to buy himself a yacht. Baek is made all the more despicable when he admits to only killing the children [[EvilIsPetty because they were ones who particularly annoyed him in his day job]], that of a schoolteacher.

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* CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek is the old partner of the main character Ms. Geum-Ja. He makes her take the fall for a young boy Baek himself killed, sending Geum-Ja to prison for years. Upon her release, Geum-Ja plans revenge. Baek hideously mistreats his wife physically and sexually and is found out to have become a SerialKiller of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] while Geum-Ja was in jail. Baek would abduct children, send out ransom notices...and then murder the children anyways before he even got the money. He did this all because he just [[ChildHater didn't like children]], and he wanted to buy a yacht.

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* CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek is the old partner of the main character Ms. Geum-Ja. He makes her take the fall for a young boy Baek himself killed, sending Geum-Ja to prison for years. Upon her release, Geum-Ja plans revenge. Baek hideously mistreats his wife physically and sexually and is found out to have become a SerialKiller of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] while Geum-Ja was in jail. Mr. Baek would abduct children, send out ransom notices...and Han-sang]] is a vile serial kidnapper who is responsible for ruining heroine Geum-ja's life. Having forced Geum-ja to assist him in kidnapping a child for ransom, Baek coldly murders the boy after tiring of his crying, then murder frames Geum-ja for the act, threatening the life of her infant daughter should she not admit to the crime. Baek then continues kidnapping children and holding them for ransom, however he kills them long before he gets paid, making snuff films of their deaths as he kills them in increasingly horrifying ways even as they beg for their lives. After [[SerialKiller murdering nearly half a dozen children]], Baek is captured by Geum-ja, who also discovers that Baek viciously[[DomesticAbuse abuses his wife]] both sexually and physically, and when confronted by the parents of his victims, Baek reveals that he truly just wanted the money from the ransoms to buy himself a yacht. Baek is made all the more despicable when he admits to only killing the children anyways before he even got the money. He did this all [[EvilIsPetty because he just [[ChildHater didn't like children]], and he wanted to buy they were ones who particularly annoyed him in his day job]], that of a yacht.schoolteacher.

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* CompleteMonster:Mr. Baek, the main character Ms. Geum-Ja's old partner who makes her take the fall for a young boy Baek himself murdered, sending Geum-Ja to prison for years. Upon her release, Geum-Ja plans revenge. Baek hideously mistreats his wife physically and sexually and is found out to have become a SerialKiller of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] while Geum-Ja was in jail. Baek would abduct children, send out ransom notices...and then murder the children anyways before he even got the money. The reason? He just [[ChildHater didn't like children.]] And he wanted to buy a yacht.

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* CompleteMonster:Mr. Baek, CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek is the old partner of the main character Ms. Geum-Ja's old partner who Geum-Ja. He makes her take the fall for a young boy Baek himself murdered, killed, sending Geum-Ja to prison for years. Upon her release, Geum-Ja plans revenge. Baek hideously mistreats his wife physically and sexually and is found out to have become a SerialKiller of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] while Geum-Ja was in jail. Baek would abduct children, send out ransom notices...and then murder the children anyways before he even got the money. The reason? He did this all because he just [[ChildHater didn't like children.]] And children]], and he wanted to buy a yacht.
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* CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek. He seems to have been custom designed from top to bottom to be so evil and repulsive that [[spoiler: his slow, horrible death doesn't send Geum-Ja and the children's families past the MoralEventHorizon at the end]]. Of course, the whole point is that the audience forms their own opinion on [[spoiler: whether his torture was deserved, or if it just made the victims into monsters themselves]].

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* CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek. He seems CompleteMonster:Mr. Baek, the main character Ms. Geum-Ja's old partner who makes her take the fall for a young boy Baek himself murdered, sending Geum-Ja to prison for years. Upon her release, Geum-Ja plans revenge. Baek hideously mistreats his wife physically and sexually and is found out to have been custom designed from top to bottom to be so evil and repulsive that [[spoiler: his slow, horrible death doesn't send become a SerialKiller of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] while Geum-Ja was in jail. Baek would abduct children, send out ransom notices...and then murder the children's families past children anyways before he even got the MoralEventHorizon at the end]]. Of course, the whole point is that the audience forms their own opinion on [[spoiler: whether his torture was deserved, or if it money. The reason? He just made the victims into monsters themselves]].[[ChildHater didn't like children.]] And he wanted to buy a yacht.
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** The birthday party for all of Baek's victims

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* CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek. He seems to have been custom designed from top to bottom to be so evil and repulsive that [[spoiler: his slow, horrible death doesn't send Geum-Ja and the children's families past the MoralEventHorizon at the end.]] Of course, the whole point is that the audience forms their own opinion on [[spoiler: whether his torture was deserved, or if it just made the victims into monsters themselves.]].

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* CompleteMonster: Mr. Baek. He seems to have been custom designed from top to bottom to be so evil and repulsive that [[spoiler: his slow, horrible death doesn't send Geum-Ja and the children's families past the MoralEventHorizon at the end.]] end]]. Of course, the whole point is that the audience forms their own opinion on [[spoiler: whether his torture was deserved, or if it just made the victims into monsters themselves.]].themselves]].



** The rice-cake. ItMakesSenseInContext.

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** The rice-cake. ItMakesSenseInContext.ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Yeong-wook Jo's very baroque soundtrack only adds to Geum-Ja's grace and elegance.



* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Yeong-wook Jo's very baroque soundtrack only adds to Geum-Ja's grace and elegance.
* MemeticMutation: "Ni na jaraseyo." Which means, "Go mind your own business" , became extremely popular phrase in Korea.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Yeong-wook Jo's very baroque soundtrack only adds to Geum-Ja's grace and elegance.
* MemeticMutation: "Ni na jaraseyo." Which means, "Go mind your own business" , business", became an extremely popular phrase in Korea.
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*CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Yeong-wook Jo's very baroque soundtrack only adds to Geum-Ja's grace and elegance.

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