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Can someone explain the dinner scene?


In the dinner scene, was the uncle's wife having a seizure as a result of being shocked of Su-mi acting out as Eun-joo or was she possessed by a possibly demonic spirit since she saw the dead girl's ghost beneath the sink? Also, I've noticed that the movement she made with her hands matched the movement of the hands of Su-yeon, Su-mi's younger sister, when was crushed by the closet and the wife also made choking noises which probably adds on to this.

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Depends on your interpretation. Most people think she was possessed.
But I think she was just having a seizure probably triggered by Su-Mi.
The sitiuation was VERY tense at the moment.

And also it seems to happened more than once as the husband ran away to get some medicine for her. Why would he possess pills against seizure if this was the first time? So I say no ghost was involved.

As for the ghost under the sink, it was just hallucination from her, I read people who have seizure can hallucinate things.

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"In the dinner scene, was the uncle's wife having a seizure as a result of being shocked of Su-mi acting out as Eun-joo or was she possessed by a possibly demonic spirit since she saw the dead girl's ghost beneath the sink? Also, I've noticed that the movement she made with her hands matched the movement of the hands of Su-yeon, Su-mi's younger sister, when was crushed by the closet and the wife also made choking noises which probably adds on to this." - edwintrinh09


As sephiroth1-953-765008 says, Mi-Hee was having a seizure.

"Do know what's really scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can't go away, you see. And... and it follows you around like a ghost."


The biggest theme in this film is that you can't run away from your past. Every decision you make has unseen consequences in the future. All the characters in this film feel guilt for Su-Yeon's death, the two men seem to handle it better than the women (insert Korean social commentary here).

Eun-Joo was the only one to investigate the noise of the wardrobe falling on Su-Yeon and the others feel guilt at their own inaction (apart from Su-Mi, who feels guilt on a higher level because of what she did as opposed to what she didn't do). Mi-Hee has developed a stress induced anxiety reaction, for which she is taking medication. In film convention terms, Su-Yeon's "ghost" is the explanation for such seizures, brought on by her crippling guilt over Su-Yeon's death. On the drive home she tells Sun-kyu that she saw a girl under the sink, he has no reaction to this, he has heard it many times before and has decided that diplomacy is the best policy. There was no ghost, and no demonic possession.

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