Monday, February 21, 2011

Daisy (데이지)-2006


Daisy is an urban melodrama about a young struggling art painter, the Interpol police detective she loves and a professional hitman for whom there is no escape. With a twist that is bound to make its audience think about their own perception about love, the film was shot entirely in The Netherlands, for the most part in the capital of Amsterdam, Haarlem and Epen.

TRAILER


PLOT
Jun Ji-hyun is a painting artist who makes her living by sketching portraits of people by charging 30 dollars for every portrait.









Jung Woo-sung is a professional hit man who sees Jun Ji-hyun painting in high mountains and instantly falls in love with her.

One day while Jun Ji-hyun is trying to cross a small channel connected by a narrow log, she accidentally falls down and in this incident loses her bag containing all her painting equipments. Jung Woo-sung who keeps watching this from a distance immediately runs for her rescue but by the time he reaches there, he finds her gone. He finds the bag she lost and gets the log replaced with a bridge. Jun Ji-hyun is taken by surprise by the sight of the bridge. Though initially she takes the bridge for a mere coincidence, she is much more moved when she finds her lost bag hanged in the middle of the bridge. She instantly completes her painting of high mountains and places it in the place of her bag as a gesture of thanks for the person who built the bridge for her.


From that day she starts receiving daisy flowers daily by 4.15pm sharp. As the days pass on she is touched by the humor of the person who is sending those flowers and develops a soft corner towards him. On the other side Jung Woo-sung is afraid she might be harmed if he starts moving close to her, especially for a profession like his. He thrashes his feelings and maintains a distance from her.

The story takes a interesting turn with the introduction of Lee Seong-jae in the movie. Lee Seong-jae is a cop associated with cracking the case of drug mafia. One day on his way to trace out the activities of drug dealers, he is encountered by Jun Ji-hyun. He asks her for his portrait and this continues for a few more days until one day the drug dealers come to know his hideout. In the mean time Jun Ji-hyun starts to believe that Lee Seong-jae is the one sending her daisy flowers and instantly falls in love with him. Lee Seong-jae also hides the fact for the fear of blowing up his entire cover. On the other hand Jung Woo-sung who has been constantly keeping an eye on Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Seong-jae's activities notices a few mafias advancing towards them with armed pistols. Jung Woo-sung instantly grabs his sniper and starts shooting the mafia. The situation takes a worse turn when Jung Woo-sung accidentally shoots Jun Ji-hyun in the neck by mistake. This leaves Jun Ji-hyun voiceless for her entire life and Lee Seong-jae is gushed with guilt for he considers himself responsible for this entire episode.

Lee Seong-jae is transfer back to Korea from Netherlands and Jun Ji-hyun is left alone, heartbroken. Jung Woo-sung can’t help himself with Jun Ji-hyun condition and starts showing up and moving close to her. Jun Ji-hyun is still in the memories of Lee Seong-jae and cant help herself forget him.

After an year Lee Seong-jae comes back to netherland and surprisingly shows up on Jun Ji-hyun’s doorsteps. He apologizes for the entire episode and leaves her in all tears. Meanwhile Lee Seong-jae's boss who sorts to solve the case behind this whole episode, hints to catch the guy who shot mafia with a sniper. Further investigation reveals his identity as professional hit man and they plan to catch him red-handed.
Lee Seong-jae's boss contracts Jung Woo-sung's dealer to kill Lee Seong-jae in a sketch to catch Jung Woo-sung. All will be set and the day on which Lee Seong-jae is supposed to be killed arrives. Lee Seong-jae shows up in a car surrounded secretly by many undercover cops. Lee Seong-jae would have come to know Jung Woo-sung as a friend of Jun Ji-hyun when he had been to apologise to her. Jung Woo-sung suddenly shows up and asks Lee Seong-jae for a private talk. Lee Seong-jae stalls all the cops saying he is going around with a friend and is later found head shot with in an isolated place (Though Jung Woo-sung obliges his real identity and refuses to kill, Lee Seong-jae is shot by some other assassinator belong to Jung Woo-sung group.)

Lee Seong-jae's boss hints the activities of the killer who killed Lee Seong-jae to Jun Ji-hyun in Lee Seong-jae funeral. Jun Ji-hyun instantly comes to know the person behind Lee Seong-jae murder. Meanwhile Lee Seong-jae's boss sketches a much tougher plan to catch Lee Seong-jae’s assassin by contracting himself for contract killing. On the other hand a few series of events leads Jun Ji-hyun to know that Jung Woo-sung was the one sending her daisy flowers. Jung Woo-sung who is all set to assassinate Lee Seong-jae's boss is takes by surprise when Jun Ji-hyun shows up asking him to stop. Jung Woo-sung instantly shows up but a stray bullet by another assassinator (The one responsible for Lee Seong-jae’s death) suppose to hit Jung Woo-sung hits Jun Ji-hyun and she dies.

Jung Woo-sung takes his part of revenge by killing and dissolving his entire gang responsible for Jun Ji-hyun death. Jung Woo-sung is shot in this event and is found walking alone in a lonely street. It can be assumed that even Jung Woo-sung dies shortly after.

OST


WATCH FILM ONLINE
http://www.mysoju.com/korean-movie/daisy/

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