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| Hangul | 신데렐라 |
| Directed by | Bong Man-dae |
| Written by | Son Kwang-soo |
| Starring | Sin Se-Kyung Do Ji-won |
| Music by | Hyun Jin-yung |
| Editing by | Mun In-dae |
| Distributed by | Mini Film Productions |
| Release date(s) | August 17, 2006 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Cinderella (신데렐라) is a 2006 South Korean horror film. It was directed by Bong Man-dae and starred Do Ji-won and Sin Se-kyeong
All of Hyeon-su (Sin Se-Kyung)'s friends want the perfect face. However their dreams turn to nightmares when they all get killed, and Hyeon-su must uncover her mother Yoon-hee (Do Ji-won)'s sinister secrets.
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The film starts off with a birthday cake being lit in the dark. An unseen figure carries the cake into a room but then drops it in shock as we see another unknown person commit suicide by hanging. Then we are introduced to a girl, Su-kyoung, lying on an operating table ready to undergo plastic surgery. She is extremely nervous and frightened and is being comforted by her friend Hyeon-su. Hyeon-su's parents are divorced. She leaves and we are introduced to her mother Yoon-hee who is a successful and talented plastic surgeon. The two young women talk and we are shown that they have a good mother-daughter relationship. Meanwhile, Su-kyoung is alone and panicking in the operating room. She sees a frightening image of a girl wearing a grey dress and long dark hair covering her face. The girl crawls underneath the table and disappears from view. Yoon-hee then appears and begins the surgery, telling Su-kyoung that it is time to become pretty. A day later it is Hyeon-su's birthday. She argues with her mum about where to have the party, with her mum finally convincing her to do it in her home (she is very rich). Hyeon-su is later in her art class, sculpting a model of Su-kyoung's face. Many of the girls in the class comment saying that Su-kyoung looks much more attractive than she did before. Hyeon-su is then spoken to by another friend (Who isn't referred to by her name during the film so she will be dubbed Ponytail, because her long hair is mainly tied up throughout) who asks her to comment on the fantastic eye job that her mother performed on her. As the two girls talk and laugh, Hyeon-su accidentally cuts into her model's face. Su-kyoung notices and a large cut appears on her cheek. She screams and flees in terror. She descends into the building holding her bleeding face. A mysterious voice shrieks at her saying she wants her face back. Hyeon-su appears and asks her if she's okay, Su-kyoung's cut and blood vanishing. Hye-won, another girl who is friends with Hyeon-su is deciding whether to get an eye job or nose job from Yoon-hee. Meanwhile Hyeon-su, Ponytail and Su-kyoung wait at a bus stop while an old woman gives out flyers for her missing granddaughter. Su-kyoung is distant, troubled by earlier events. The bus arrives but Hyeon-su waits for her friend Sung-eon to come. Ponytail shows instant disgust at the news but is not given time to argue as the bus drives away. Sung-eon is a tomboyish type and is closer to Hyeon-su than her other friends who she doesn't get along with well, she also hasn't undergone any facial surgery. Sung-eon appears on a motorbike and the two drive towards Hyeon-su's house. Ponytail and Su-kyoung wait outside Hyeon-su's house. Ponytail complains for a while, but when Hyeon-su and Sung-eon arrives she again shows her dislike of the tomboy girl. The girls then celebrate Hyeon-su's party and Su-kyoung gives her an expensive doll for a present. When lighting the cake, the same girl that Su-kyoung saw when she went under the knife appears next to Hyeon-su, but no one else can see her except Su-kyoung. The candles go out. In a hasty panic, Su-kyoung gets in the way of the cake (which was to be thrown at Hyeon-su) and then goes to the bathroom to wash her face. Su-kyoung admires her face for a second before she sees her face shredded in the reflection. She screams and runs from Hyeon-su's house with Ponytail blaming Sung-eon and giving her a nasty look before leaving. Yoon-hee asks what the problem was but Sung-eon reassures her that everything is fine. Later the two girls look through a photo album and laugh about what they used to look like. Hyeon-su then tells Sung-eon that she has no childhood pictures. Yoon-hee listens through the door and then walks away. Su-kyoung meanwhile has locked herself inside her room and refuses to see anyone. Her mother calls Yoon-hee and Hyeon-su to come and help. Su-kyoung lets Hyeon-su in and she tells her that there is something wrong with her face and that she can't help wanting to mess it up. Hyeon-su hugs her but Su-kyoung hears another voice say "pretty" and fearfully forces Hyeon-su out. Hyeon-su bangs on the door and Su-kyoung looks into a broken shard of mirror suddenly the ghost girl reappears and we see a closeup of her blue eye. She then says "I'll make you pretty" before laughing evilly. Su-kyoung's face begins to violently cut open and she screams.
The title "Cinderella" is directed towards Hyeon-su, the black haired ghost in the story. She can be dubbed Cinderella because she was illegally adopted after the original Hyeon-su suffered fatal burns and disfigurement in a car accident. The orphan Hyeon-su loved her "mother" very much but after the original Hyeon-su began to recover, their mother did an operation to have the orphaned girl's face cut off and attached to the real daughter. The real Hyeon-su, having no memory of the incident was spoiled by her mother while the faceless orphaned girl named after her, was kept in the cellar. The original daughter, was forbidden to go.
Making connections back to the original Cinderella story, Cinderella was also treated badly by a step mother and was locked away in her room while her two step sisters obtained all of the fortunes.
Hyeon-su, the adopted daughter, was never given any birthday parties, was never allowed to go to school, and was left inside the basement writing in her diary, hoping that one day her "mother" will make her a new face, as she promised but never did. As she grew older, she felt more betrayed after watching Hyeon-su, the real girl, grow up and become beautiful with her face and having birthday parties with her beautiful friends and thus ended up committing suicide in the basement, writing about how much she hates Hyeon-su and her friends and she wishes she could kill them all. Unfortunately, the mother finally decided to throw "hyeon-su" a party and brought her a cake, only to discover that she had hung herself. Feeling it be her mothers fault, she begins haunting her mothers patients which have mostly been Hyeon-su, the original, friends, until they go crazy with thoughts of being ugly. With those thoughts, they commit suicide by cutting up their own faces, or inflicting facial disfigurement on each other. Also, it must be noted that the orphaned Hyeon-su truly loved her mother and wanted nothing more than to be with her forever. The real Hyeon-su, even before the accident, never appreciated her mother and was spoiled massively. In the end, Hyeon-su's mother agrees to go on to the afterlife with the adopted girl to save her original daughter and bring peace to the orphaned girl's torturous life.
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