After she is accused of plagiarism, a best-selling author retreats with her young daughter to a country villa that was once a war-time orphanage. Intending to work on a new book, she encounters the supernatural instead.
Within 20 min of moving into a remote location, the daughter talks to ghosts. They barely got to put their bags down.
Even in Asian cinema, a creepy little kid is still a creepy little kid.
At first she dismisses her daughters "friend" (naturally) then She intends to write a story about her. (for fun and profit). She writes and publishes the ghost's story and she is accused of plagarizing a story written 5 years ago. According to her, she couldn't have plagarised her story. She's never read the original book and she heard the story from her daughter. But she has a complete mental breakdown when faced with the truth that her daughter has been dead for quite some time.
So, How can two writers write the same exact story in the same exact way? She decides to go back to the house to discover the truth. The movie then becomes less of a ghost story and more of a murder mystery as she tries to figure out exactly who the killers are and why.
Man, this is like the 4th or fifth movie I've seen with writers who move to remote locations and encounter the supernatural. I'm starting to see a pattern. Ghosts love writers in remote locations.
I hate writing and remote locations. I think I'm safe...I hope...
Bestseller somehow develops both slowly and quickly at the same time. The ghost shit, voices, visions, messages happen fairly quickly and I mean within the first 30 min of the film. The shit getting real part and character development takes longer. the story takes it's sweet ass time moving forward. It's as if they were trying to get the ghost shit out of the way, so they could get to the mystery shit.
Speaking of mystery, why does this old lady keep showing up and how does she beat you in a foot race?
Man...that lady is like 100. Korean cardio is no joke.
Out of ten? 5.5
This movie drags. It felt like it took an hour to get through the last 30 minutes. Violence? Yes
Explosions? No
Nudity? No
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